Goldsmiths - University of London

Ms Sarah Duff

Academic qualifications

BA in English, French, and History, University of Stellenbosch , South Africa , 2003

BA(Honours) in History , University of Stellenbosch , 2004

MA in History, University of Stellenbosch , 2005

BA(Honours) in English, University of Stellenbosch , 2006

PhD in Modern History, Birkbeck, University of London, 2007-present

Teaching

First Year

Concepts and Methods in History

Identity, Power, and Society

Second Year

Gender and Text in History, c19-c21

Research interests

I am an historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa , with particular interests in the histories of childhood, gender, domesticity, evangelicalism, and food. I am currently completing my doctoral dissertation: ‘What will this child be? Dutch Reformed Evangelicalism and Childhood in the Cape Colony , 1860-1898.’

Selected publications

‘“Less care bestowed upon them than the beasts of the field”: Evangelical Responses to the Cape Educational “Crisis” of the 1870s,’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, forthcoming.

‘“Every Hope of a South African New Woman?”: From New Women to College Girls at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910,’ Girlhood: A Global History, eds. Jennifer Helgren and Colleen Vasconcellos ( Rutgers University Press, 2010).

‘From New Women to College Girls at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910,’ Historia, vol. 51, no. 1, May 2006, pp. 1-27.

‘“writing on the face of architecture”: Travel, Translation, and Representation in Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana,’ English Academy Review, vol. 22, December 2005, pp. 89-99.

‘“Oh! for a blessing on Africa and America ”: The Mount Holyoke System and the Huguenot Seminary, 1874-1885,’ New Contree, vol. 50, November 2005.

Conferences

‘Mass Education in the Cape Colony ,’ at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood’s Conference ‘Citizenship, Modernisation, and Nationhood: The Cultural Role of Mass Education, 1870-1930,’ Magdalen College , Oxford University , September 2009.

‘“It was not I but Christ that did it”: Redefining Sibling Love in Nineteenth-Century South Africa,’ biennial conference of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, University of California , Berkeley , July 2009.

‘“The ‘home in heaven”’?: Dutch Reformed Church-Evangelicalism and the Transformation of Family Life in the Cape Colony , 1859-1869,’ biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, Rhodes University , Grahamstown, July 2008.

‘“Work among the Boys”: Evangelicalism and Middle-Class Masculinity in the Cape Colony , 1860-1879,’ ‘What is Masculinity?’ Conference, Birkbeck College , University of London , May 2008.