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.

Biography

Lavin was born on 22 September 1939.^[2] She attended Rhodes University, South Africa and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1961.

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 to 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

• 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]