Sandra is Associate Professor of History at Stellenbosch University. She is a social and environmental historian of southern Africa, having received concomitantly both a doctorate in modern history at the University of Oxford and an MSc in Environmental Management also from Oxford.  She has published on Afrikaner identity and animals in history.  She is the co-author with Greg Bankoff, of Breeds of Empire (NIAS Press, 2007) co-editor, with Lance van Sittert, of Canis Africanis: a dog history of southern Africa (Brill, 2008) and she is currently writing the history of horses in southern Africa. Sandra teaches a course called “A brief history of the last five million years”, environmental history and methodology.

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