Rob Turrell (University of Hannover, Germany)

Submitted: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:30:10 +0100

Dr. Rob Turrell

Affiliation:
Historisches Seminar, 
University of Hannover
Germany

e-mail: robert.turrell@extern.uni-ulm.de

I am a South African-born historian, specialising in the the history of
South Africa.  My three areas of research have been: mining and
industrialisation, empire and mining finance, and murder, mercy and the
death penalty. I completed my Ph.D. (a social and economic history of
early diamond mining at Kimberley) at the School of Oriental and African
Studies in 1982 under the supervision of Professor Shula Marks.
Subsequently, I taught at the universities of Cape Town, London, Bayreuth
and Hannover. 

I was the South African editor of the Journal of Southern
African Studies from 1986 to 1991 and I am the founder editor of:

Southern African Review of Books
Kiechelweg 2
Ulm 89077
Germany

phone: (+49 731) 30 95 8 
fax:   (+49 731) 15 30 60
Web:   http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/


Publications:

1. The City of London and the Empire (editor), 2 vols (University of
London,1985, 1986)

2. Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871-1890 (Cambridge
University Press, 1987)

3. Political Violence in Southern Africa, co-edited with T. Ranger und W.
Beinart (Oxford  University Press, 1992)
[special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies]

4. White Mercy. A Study of Murder and Rape in South Africa (David Philip,
forthcoming)

Recent Papers:

1. '"The Violence We Have Lost": Homicide in Cape Town, Johannesburg and
Salisbury, 1890-1947', paper presented to the African Studies Institute,
UCT (1994)

2. 'Hanging Women: the Singular Case of Mietje Bontnaal', paper presented
to the Southern African Societies Seminar, Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, University of London (April, 1997); UCT History Department Seminar
(June, 1997); and the South African Historical Society Conference,
University of Pretoria (July, 1997)

3. 'Power and Mercy: the Death Penalty in South Africa, 1910-1947', paper
presented to the History Seminar, University of Hannover (May, 1997); and
University of the Western Cape History Department Seminar (July 1997)