IOWC Associates
Nigel Worden
Professor of History at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Nigel Worden, who holds a PhD degree in History from Cambridge University, and BA degrees both in Linguistics and in Art History from the University of South Africa, is an internationally renowned scholar of South African and Indian Ocean World history. Professor Worden, whose languages include Dutch and French (fluent); Afrikaans, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Malay and Indonesian (reading knowledge); and Xhosa, Swedish and Latin (basic), has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 G. Wesley Johnson Award from the U.S Council on Public History for the best article in the field of public history published in 1994; a Meritorious publication award, UCT (2000) for Cape Town: the Making of a City; an Overseas Visiting Fellowship, St. John's College, Cambridge (2002); the Nelson Mandela Chair in Humanities grant to edit volume of slave court testimonies to be published by the Van Riebeeck Society (2003-4); and Western Cape Provincial Honours: Premier’s Commendation for contributions to the study of slavery (2005).
Publications
Books
- 2007. Social identity and material culture in the VOC world, edited by N.Worden (Cape Town: University of Cape Town) – conference proceedings.
- 2007. with Jean Bottaro and Pippa Visser, In Search of History, Grade 12 (Cape Town: Oxford University Press).
- 2006. with Jean Bottaro and Pippa Visser, In Search of History, Grade 12 (Cape Town: Oxford University Press).
- 2005. Trials of slavery: selected documents concerning slaves from the criminal records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794, edited jointly with Gerald Groenewald (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society).
- 2005. with Jean Bottaro and Pippa Visser, In Search of History, Grade 10 (Cape Town: Oxford University Press).
- 2000. The making of modern South Africa; conquest, segregation and apartheid (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) – 3rd edition.
- 1999. Cape Town in the Twentieth Century (Cape Town: David Philip) [jointly with E.Van Heyningen and V.Bickford-Smith]
- 1998. Cape Town: The Making of a City (Cape Town: David Philip) [jointly with E. Van Heyningen and V. Bickford-Smith]
- 1998. A Concise Dictionary of South African History (Cape Town: Francolin Publishers).
- 1996. The Chains That Bind Us (Cape Town: Juta).
- 1995-1996. with Jean Bottaro and Pippa Visser, In Search of History, Primary 1 and 2, Secondary 1 and 2 (Cape Town: Oxford University Press).
- 1995. The making of modern South Africa; conquest, segregation and apartheid (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) - 2nd edition. >
- 1994. Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Emancipation in the nineteenth century Cape Colony. Jointly edited with C. Crais (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press).
- 1993. The making of modern South Africa; conquest, segregation and apartheid (Oxford: Basil Blackwell).
- 1986. Always Working (Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter in association with African Studies Centre, UCT) - reprinted and translated into Afrikaans 1990) [jointly with Candy Malherbe]
- 1985. Slavery in Dutch South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - reprinted 1987)
