Colin Bundy
Greetings and Tributes from the 1st Annual Symposium of The Walter Rodney Foundation
SOAS is proud to claim Walter Rodney among its alumni and it was at SOAS that Walter was awarded his PHD. The Rodney Papers collection will be of interest to generations of scholars, as a record of a path-breaking radical scholar and deeply committed activist.
Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian and former principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised understanding of South African history. In particular, he wrote on South Africa's rural past from a predominantly Marxist perspective, but also deploying Africanist and underdevelopment theories. Since the mid-1990s, however, Bundy has held a series of posts in university administration. Bundy is also a trustee of the Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust. Bundy was director and principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2001–06); deputy vice-chancellor of the University of London (2003–06); vice-chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (1997-2001); and director of the Institute for Historical Research (1992–94) and vice-rector (1994-97), University of the Western Cape.