Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the Department of History
at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in Modern
History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously
obtaining an MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, with a
particular focus on the shifting relationship between humans and animals. She is an editor of the Brill book
series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, an editor of the South
African Historical Journal and past president of the Southern African Historical Society. Swart is the author
of Riding High – Horses, Humans and History in South Africa.
She lives in Stellenbosch with a large and happy herd. Two amongst them Rio, the most beautiful dog on
earth, and Kodiak, the naughtiest dog in the world.