William Beinart

William Beinart is emeritus professor at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He worked at Rhodes, Bristol, and Oxford from 1976 to 2015, and has written largely on South African and environmental history. He has authored numerous books, beginning with Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001) and most recently The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (2021 with Saul Dubow). He served on Oriel College’s commission to advise on the Rhodes legacy and statue.