Curriculum Vitae Russel Stafford Viljoen
Personal Details
Date of birth |
11 January 1967 |
Place of birth |
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Nationality |
South African |
Phone home |
+27 (0)12 347 4124 |
Cell phone |
+27 (0)84 581 1932
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Phone office |
+27 (0)12 429 6730 |
Fax office |
+27 (0)12 429 3400 / 3221 |
Address home |
556 Makou Street, Monument Park, ext. 2, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa |
Address office |
Department of History, University of South Africa (UNISA) |
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P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa |
Education
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Year awarded |
2003 |
Degree |
Ph.D. |
Subject |
History |
University of Western Cape, South Africa
Year awarded |
1994 |
Degree |
Master of Arts |
Subject |
History |
University of Western Cape, South Africa
Year awarded |
1993 |
Degree |
Higher Diploma in Education (HDE/Post Graduate) |
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(Professional qualification) |
University of Western Cape, South Africa
Year awarded |
1990 |
Degree |
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) |
Subject |
History |
University of Western Cape, South Africa
Year awarded |
1989 |
Degree |
Bachelor of Arts |
Subject |
History and Anthropology |
Work Experience
1999-present |
Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of South Africa |
University Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships
Sept. 2001-Dec.2003 |
TANAP Research Fellowship and Scholarship to complete doctoral studies at the Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, the Netherlands |
Sept.-Dec. 2001 |
Huygens Research Fellowship, at CNWS, Leiden University, the Netherlands |
April-July 2000 |
Oxford University Research Fellowship, Oppenheimer Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, United Kingdom |
2002 |
Principal's Prize for Young Researchers, UNISA, South Africa |
1996 |
Principal's Prize for Young Researchers, UNISA, South Africa |
1993 |
The Malcolm Klein Trust Award |
1992 |
Mellon Award, University Graduate Fellowship |
1991 |
Ford Foundation Scholarship |
Selected Publications
Thesis
Land of Our Forefathers: Jan Paerl: A Khoikhoi Prophet in Cape Colonial Society, 1761-1851. Leiden University, 4 December 2003.
Book section
"Moravian Missionaries, Khoisan Labour and the Overberg Colonists at the end of the VOC era 1792-1795." In Bredekamp, HC & Ross, R (eds), Missions and Christianity in South African History (Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1995), 49-64.
"Making Sense of the Khoikhoi Cattle-killing of 1788: An episode of Millenianarism in Khoikhoi Society. 1991." In Bank, A (ed), The Proceedings of the Khoisan Identities and Cultural Heritage Conference, (Cape Town, 1998), 195-204.
Journal Articles
"Revelation of a Revolution": The Prophecies of Jan Parel; Alias Onse Liewen Heer, a Khoisan Prophet and Cape Rebel." Kronos: Journal of Cape History, November, no 21, 1994, 3-15.
"Disease and Society: Cape Town, its People and the Outbreak of the Smallpox Epidemics of 1713, 1755 and 1767." Kleio, XXVII, 1995, 22-45.
"Till Murder Do Us Part: The Story of Griet and Hendrik Eksteen." South African Historical Journal, no 33, November 1995, 13-32.
Viljoen, R & Heese, H, "The Trial and Sentence of Hans Jurgen Ketner: A German Scapegoat at the Cape?" Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika, vol.23, no.6, 1995, 587-596.
"Khoisan Heritage and Identity." South African Historical Journal, no 35, November 1996, 140-145. (Seminar report).
"Making Sense of the Khoikhoi Cattle-killing of 1788: An episode of Millenianarism in Khoikhoi Society." Kronos:Journal of Cape History, 24, November 1997, 62-76.
"Medicine, Health and Medical Practice in Precolonial Khoikhoi society: An Anthropological-Historical Perspective." History and Anthropology, vol.11, no.4, 1999, 515-536.
"Aboriginal Khoikhoi Servants and their Masters in Colonial Swellendam, South Africa, c.1745-1795." Agricultural History, vol.75, no 1, 2001 (winter), 28-51.
"`Smallpox War' on the Kimberley Diamond Fields during the 1880s." Kleio, 35, 2003, 5-18.
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