Hermann Giliomee (cv)
Hermann Giliomee studied and taught History at the University of Stellenbosch before accepting a chair in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town in 1982. He was head of the department from 1989 to 1992. During his academic career he received fellowships from the following institutions: Yale University (1973, 1977-78), Cambridge University (1982-83),the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1987), the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington (1992-93) and the Bellagio Centre in Italy (1994).
In 1984 Giliomee co-founded an Afrikaans journal of opinion Die Suid-Afrikaan, which appeared until 1994. Between 1980 and 2007 he wrote a regular column in several English-language and Afrikaans newspapers.
In 1995-1997 Giliomee was President of the SA Institute of Race Relations, the premier liberal organisation in South Africa. He is currently Deputy-President.
He resigned in 1998 from the University of Cape Town in order to write full-time. From 2002 to 2012 he was Extraordinary Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch.
Giliomee was co-editor of The Shaping of South African Society, 1652 to 1840 (Wesleyan University Press, 1989) The Awkward Embrace: Democracy and Dominant Party Rule (Harwood Academic Press, 1999), The Elusive Search for Peace: South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel (Oxford University Press, 1989( and A New History of South Africa (Tafelberg, 2007)
Among the books that Giliomee has co-authored are Afrikaner Political Thought,1780-1850 (University of California Press, 1982), From Apartheid to Nation-building (Oxford University Press,1989)..
He has published articles in several leading academic journals , including Political Science Quarterly (New York), Journal of Democracy (Washington), Comparative Studies in Society and History (Madison. Wisc.), J ournal of Southern African Studies (Oxford), Itinerario (Leiden).
In 2003 the University of Virginia Press published his The Afrikaners: Biography of a People.This was followed by The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power (University of Virginia Press, 2013). Tafelberg published Nog altyd hier gewees: Storie van `n Stellenbosse gemeenskap (2007, which deals with the coloured community in Stellenbosch displaced under the apartheid laws.
He is married to Annette van Coller. The couple has two children and five grand-children.
Afrikaans (cv)
Hermann Giliomee het op Porterville skool gegaan en daarna aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch gestudeer. Hy was eers lektor in Geskiedenis aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch en het in 1983 Professor in Politieke Studies aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad geword. Hy is tans Buitengewone Professor in Geskiedenis aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch.
Hy is die redakteur van verskeie boeke oor die geskiedenis, die politiek en die posisie van Afrikaans en die Afrikaners. Die bekendste is The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Tafelberg 2003) wat hy vertaal en verwerk het in Afrikaans en as Die Afrikaners: `n Biografie by dieselfde uitgewer verskyn het. Hy is mede-redakteur van die Nuwe Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika (2007)
Hy is getroud met Annette van Coller en die egpaar het twee kinders en vyf kleinkinders.