IOWC Associate: 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).

• 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)

• 2009 "Coercizione e libertà nella Colonia del Capo, Sudafrica, 1652-1806", Afriche e Orienti 11, 3-4 (2009), 17-36.
• 2009 "Below the line the devil reigns: death and dissent aboard a VOC vessel", South African Historical Journal, 61:4 (2009), 701-29.
• 2009 "Demanding satisfaction: violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth-century Cape Town", Kronos 35 (2009), 32-47.
• 2009 "Roundtable: Kerry Ward, Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company", International Journal of Maritime History 21:1 (2009), 335-340.
• 2009 "The changing politics of slave heritage in the Western Cape, South Africa", Journal of African History 50 (2009), 23-40.
• 2007 “VOC Cape Town as an Indian Ocean port” in Himanshu Ray and Edward Alpers (eds.), Cross currents and community networks: the history of the Indian Ocean world (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007), 142-62.
• 2007 “Cape Town” Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (Oxford: Oxford University Press), Vol. I, 338.
• 2007 “Strangers ashore: sailor identity and social conflict in mid-18th century Cape Town” Kronos 33: 72-83.
• 2007 “New approaches to VOC history in South Africa” South African Historical Journal 59: 3-18.
• 2006 “L'esclavagisme dans l'ocean Indien et ses consequences dans la colonie du Cape” Cahiers des Anneaux de la Memoire 9: 331-358.
• 2006 “Coercion and freedom in the Cape Colony, 1652-1856” in M. Kleijwegt (ed.), The Faces of Freedom: The manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery (Leiden: Brill), 185-213.
• 2006 “‘What are we?’: Proteus and the problematising of history” in V. Bickford-Smith and R. Mendelsohn (eds.), Black and white
  in colour: African history on screen (Oxford: James Currey), 82-96.
• 2005 “Cape Colony: origins, settlement and trade,” “Cape Colony: Khoisan resistance,” “Cape slavery,” and “Cape Town” in K. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 208-212, and 215-217.
• 2005 “Artisan conflicts in a colonial context: the Cape Town blacksmith strike of 1752” Labor History 46. 2: 155-184.
• 2005 “Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony” in G. Campbell (ed.), Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge), 29-49.
• 2004 “Writing and teaching the history of unfree labour in Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Twenty-First century” South African Historical Journal 50: 236-240.
• 2004 “Apartheid” in Encyclopedia of Community (New York: Sage Publishers), 48-52.
• 2003 “Cape Town and Port Louis in the eighteenth century” in G. Campbell (ed.), The Indian Ocean Rim: Southern Africa and regional co-operation (London: Routledge Curzon), 42-53.
• 2003 “National identity and heritage tourism in Melaka” Indonesia and Malay World 31: 31-43.
• 2002 “Slavery, memory and amnesia in the Indian Ocean world” in J.Chan Low (ed), Esclavage et memoire dans l'ócean Indien (Port Louis: University of Mauritius Press).
• 2002 “Ethnic diversity at the VOC Cape” in T. Eliëns (ed.), Domestic interiors at the Cape and in Batavia, 1602-1795 [translated as Wonen op de Kaap en Batavia] (Den Haag: Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle and Gemeentemuseum), 129-137.
• 2002 “Forging a reputation: artisan honour and the Cape Town blacksmith strike of 1752” Kronos: Journal of Cape History 28: 36-54.
• 2001 “‘Where it all began’ :the representation of Malaysian heritage in Melaka” International Journal of Heritage Studies 7. 3: 199-218.
• 2001 “The forgotten region: commemorations of slavery in Mauritius and South Africa” in G. Oostindie (ed.), Facing up to the past (The Hague: Ian Randle), 48-54.
• 2000 “VOC Cape Town: a Dutch-Asian city in Africa” in S. Evers and V. Hooksooming (eds.), Globalisation and its impact in the south-west Indian Ocean (Moka: Mauritius and Leiden)
• 1999 “Space and social identity in VOC Cape Town” Kronos 25: 72-87.
• 1999 “Herdenking van de slavernij op Mauritius en in de Kaapkolonie” in G.J. Oostindie (red.), Het verleden onder ogen: herdenking van de slavernij (The Hague: Uitjeverij Arena).
• 1998 “Commemorating, Suppressing and Invoking Cape Slavery” in Nuttall, S. and Coetzee, C. (eds.), Negotiating the past: the making of memory in South Africa (Cape Town: Oxford University Press), 201-217 [jointly with K. Ward].
• 1998 “Indonesia,” “Philippines,” “Southeast Asia: Slavery” and “Southeast Asia: Slave Trade,” in P. Finkelman and J. Miller (eds.), Macmillan Encylopedia of World Slavery, 2 vols., (New York: Macmillan), 427-8, 706-7, 849-51 and 865-7 [jointly with K. Ward]
• 1997 “Contested Heritage in a South African City: Cape Town” in B. Shaw and R. Jones (eds.), Contested Urban Heritage: Voices from the Periphery (Aldershot: Ashgate), 31-61.
• 1997 “Apartheid,” “Cape Colony,” “Mfecane” and “Great Trek” in J. Rodriguez (ed.), The Historical Encylopedia of World Slavery, 2 vols., (Santa Barbara: Clio), 42-3, 123-4, 432-3, 311-12.
• 1996 “Public history in the New South Africa” Perspectives (US Historical Association newsletter) 34. 2: 1-8.
• 1996 “Signs of the times: heritage, tourism, and the Cape Town Waterfront” Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines 141-142: 215-36 [jointly with E. van Heyningen]
• 1996 “Contested space and image at the Cape Town Waterfront” in D. Vanneste (ed.), Space, mirror of social and cultural identity? Acta Geographica Lovaniensia 36: 95-107.
• 1996 “Missing heads: public history in South Africa” Itinerario 20. 3: 125-32.
• 1996 “Contested history at the Cape Town Waterfront” International Journal of Heritage Studies 2: 59-75.
• 1996 “Una storia nuova per un nuovo Sudafrica?” in I. Vivian (ed.), Il nuovo Sudafrica (Firenze: Scandicci), 41-68.
• 1995 “Le leopard peut-il changer ses taches? De Klerk et l’arriere-plan de la reforme democratique en Afrique du Sud” in M. Esoavelomandroso et G. Feltz (red.), Democratie et developpement: mirage ou espoir raisonnable? (Paris: Karthala), 131-50.
• 1994 “Slave apprenticeship in Cape Town, 1834-38” Studies in the History of Cape Town 7: 32-44.
• 1994 “Unwrapping history at the Cape Town Waterfront” Public Historian 16. 2: 33-50.
• 1993 “Diverging histories: slavery and its aftermath in the Cape Colony and Mauritius” South African Historical Journal 27: 3-25.
• 1993 “Presenting public history at the 'historic' Waterfront” CABO 5. 3: 25-31.
• 1991 “Brazilian slavery: a survey from the Cape of recent literature in English” Social Dynamics 17. 2: 76-102.
• 1990 “The South Atlantic slave trade” South African Historical Journal 23: 196-203.
• 1989 “The slaves, 1652-1834” in R.Elphick and H.Giliomee (eds.), The shaping of South African society, 1652-1840 (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman),109-183 - 2nd edition, reprinted 1990, 1991, translated into Afrikaans 1991) [jointly with Dr J Armstrong]
• 1989 “Adjusting to emancipation: freed slaves and farmers in the mid-nineteenth century western Cape” in W. James and M. Simons (eds.), The angry divide: social and economic history of the western Cape (Cape Town: David Philip), 31-39.
• 1982 “Violence, crime and slavery on Cape farmsteads in the eighteenth century” Kronos 5: 43-60.
• 1981 “The distribution of slaves in the western Cape in the eighteenth century” Collected Papers, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town 2: 1-23.