Sandra Swart

Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously obtaining an MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, with a particular focus on the shifting relationship between humans and animals. Swart is an editor of the Brill book series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, editor of the South African Historical Journal and a past president of the Southern African Historical Society. She is also the author of Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa. Her latest publication is The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past.