Professor Shula Marks

Shula Marks is an Emeritus Professor and Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Distinguished Research Fellow of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. A former Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, she is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, and has a particular interest in the history of health and medicine in South Africa. In 1983 she co-authored a WHO monograph on Health and Apartheid, and in 1994 she wrote a major study on the history of nursing in South Africa, entitled Divided Sisterhood. Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession. Given these interests, she has a passionate concern to help in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in contemporary South Africa.