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Paul Stuart Landau (born 1962) is an American historian, specializing in the history of southern and South Africa. His Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, ca. 1400 to 1948 (2010) and The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (1995) were finalists for the ASA Best Book Prize. He has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1999.[1]
Early Life and Education
[edit]Landau is the son of architectural historian Sarah Landau and lexicographer Sidney I. Landau.[2]
He received an Bachelor's degree in History from Wesleyan University in 1984, a Master's degree in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1986, and a Ph.D. in History from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1992, where he studied under Jan Vansina.[1]
Career
[edit]Landau taught for three years at the University of New Hampshire before moving to a permanent position at Yale University in 1995. In 1999, he accepted a position at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became a Professor in 2014.[1][3]
He has been a Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg since 2011. In 2020-21, Landau was a Senior Research Fellow for the Multiple Secularities project at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Leipzig University.
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780821424797.
- Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, ca. 1400 to 1948. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 9780521196031.
- The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom. Portsmouth: Heinemann. 1995. ISBN 9780852556702.
Selected articles and book chapters
[edit]- Landau, Paul (2012). "The ANC, MK, and 'The Turn to Violence' (1960–1962)". South African Historical Journal. 64 (3): 538–63. doi:10.1215/15476715-8849628.
- Landau, Paul (2010). "Transformations in Consciousness". Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 1, from Early Times to 1885. Cambridge University Press.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Paul Landau c.v." (PDF). University of Maryland. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Emily Epstein, Paul Landau". New York Times. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Paul Landau Promoted To Professor". University of Maryland. Retrieved 25 November 2024.