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Curriculum Vitae Russel Stafford Viljoen

Personal Details

Date of birth 11 January 1967
Place of birth  
Nationality South African
Phone home +27 (0)12 347 4124
Cell phone

+27 (0)84 581 1932

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)
  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)
  (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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