Deborah Lavin
Deborah Margaret Lavin, FRSA[1] (born 22 September 1939) is a South African academic and historian, resident in the United Kingdom for most of her career.
Early life[edit]
Lavin was born on 22 September 1939.[2] She attended Rhodes University, South Africa and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1961.
Academic career[edit]
Lavin has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand as well as Queen's University Belfast and was a Senior Associate of St Antony's College, Oxford.[3] In 1980 she relocated to Durham where she was co-director of the Research Institute for the Study of Change[4] and a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, as well as Principal of Trevelyan College from 1979–1995.[3] She was President of the Howlands Trust and from 1995 to 1997[1] was Principal-elect of the new College to be developed at the Howlands Farm, which eventually became Josephine Butler College.
Bibliography[edit]
- South African Memories: Scraps of History, Ad. Donker, 1979 (co-author)[5]
- From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of Lionel Curtis, Oxford, 1995[6]
- The Condominium Remembered:Proceedings of the Durham Sudan Historical Records Conference 1982, University of Durham, Centre for Middle Easte, 1993 [7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Debretts profile
- ^ Profile at timesonline.co.uk
- ^ a b Martin, Susan TREVS A Celebration of 40 years of Trevelyan College Durham.
- ^ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=95710§ioncode=26
- ^ http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Deborah_Lavin.html
- ^ http://www.books-by-isbn.com/authors/deborah/lavin/
- ^ http://dro.dur.ac.uk/133/
- ^ https://openlibrary.org/b/OL8289028M/The_Condominium_Remebered
| Academic offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Joan Bernard |
Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham 1979-1995 |
Succeeded by George Marshall |
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- 1939 births
- South African expatriates in the United Kingdom
- South African historians
- Living people
- Principals of Trevelyan College
- Academics of Durham University
- Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- Rhodes University alumni
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
- University of the Witwatersrand academics
- Academics of Queen's University Belfast