Associate Professor, Princeton University
Jacob Dlamini is a historian of Africa interested in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. Jacob held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from November 2011 to April 2015, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015.
A qualified field guide, Jacob is also interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks.
His books include Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle; Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park; The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police.