Profile of Dr Anna-Mart van Wyk, International Studies, School of Arts, Monash South Africa

Dr Anna-Mart van Wyk

Qualifications

BA(Ed), University of Pretoria, 1994.
BA (Hons) (History), University of Pretoria, 1995 (Cum Laude).
MA (History), University of Pretoria, 1999.
DPhil (History), University of Pretoria, 2005. Title: The 1977 United States arms embargo against South Africa: Institution and implementation to 1997. URL: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01312005-150408/

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Academic Colors, University of Pretoria, 1995 and 2005.
National Research Foundation (NRF) Part-time Doctoral Scholarship, 2001-2003.
University of Pretoria “Study Abroad” Fellowship, 2001.
National Research Foundation (NRF) and University of Johannesburg Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, March 2006 - March 2008.
Monash University Mobility Grant, 2009.
Nominee: Teacher of the year, Monash South Africa PVC Staff Awards, 2009.
Nominee: Researcher of the year, Monash South Africa PVC Staff Awards, 2009.
Short-term research grant, Research Directorate, Monash South Africa, 2010.

Certified Higher Degrees by Research Supervisor, Monash University Supervision Accreditation Levels 1 and 2.

Participant in an international project on the History of Nuclear Proliferation, run jointly by the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ History (CIMA) and Public Policy Program (HAPP).
Research Associate, LSE IDEAS Africa International Affairs Programme.
Co-organizer of Oral History Conference on Southern Africa in the Cold War Post-1974, held at Monash South Africa, 29-31 January 2009. In collaboration with Dr. Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Africa Initiative at LSE IDEAS.

‘The USA and Apartheid South Africa’s nuclear aspirations, 1949-1980’ in S. Onslow (ed.), White Power, Black Nationalism and the Cold War in Southern Africa, 2009, pp. 55-83. ISBN: 978-0-415-47420-7.

Van Wyk, A. and Grobler J. ‘The Kennedy Administration and the institution of an arms embargo against South Africa, 1961-1963’, Historia, 46, 1 (May 2001): 109-133.
Van Wyk, A. and Grobler J. ‘The Carter Administration and the institution of the 1977 arms embargo against South Africa: Rhetoric or active action?’ Historia, 51, 1 (May 2006): 163-199.
Van Wyk, M.S. ‘Ally or critic? The United States’ response to South African nuclear development, 1949-1980’. Cold War History, 7, 2 (May 2007): 169-225.
Van Wyk, A. ‘Sunset over Atomic Apartheid: US-South African nuclear relations, 1981-1993’. Cold War History, 10, 1 (first published August 2009): 51-79.
Van Wyk, A. ‘Apartheid’s Bomb: Cold War perspectives’, South African Historical Journal 62, 1 (April 2010): 100-120.
Van Wyk, A. ‘South Africa’s nuclear programme and the Cold War’. History Compass 8, 7 (July 2010): 562-572.

How South Africa built Six Atomic Bombs: And then Abandoned its Nuclear Weapons Program. By Al J. VENTER. South Africa: Ashanti Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-09814-0984-9. Review for South African Historical Journal 61(3), September 2009: 666-669.
The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence. Edited by Anne-Marie de Brouwer and Sandra Ka Hon Chu. Canada: Douglas and McIntyre, 2009. ISBN 978-15536-5310-3. Review for Acta Criminologica 23(1), April 2010: 122-124.

‘The 1977 United States arms embargo against South Africa: Institution and implementation to 1997’. 1 hour presentation, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria, Doctoral Research Seminar, 2001.
‘The US Government and South African nuclear capability, 1949-1995’. Annual conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Chantilly, VA, USA, 22-24 June 2007.
‘Sunset over Atomic Apartheid: US-South African nuclear relations, 1981-1993’. Annual conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Columbus, OH, USA, 26-28 June 2008.
‘Atomic Apartheid versus Liberation in the 1970s: Cold War Perspectives’. Invited paper, Liberation struggles in Southern Africa: New Perspectives Workshop, University of Cape Town, 4-6 September 2008.
‘Apartheid’s Bomb and Regional Liberation: Cold War Perspectives’. Working Expert Seminar on Southern Africa in the Cold War Era, Fundacao Luso-Americana, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-9 May 2009.
‘From Nuclear Power to Non-Proliferation Hero: Legacies of South Africa's Nuclear Cold War Strategy’, at ‘After the Wall: 20 years on. Scholarship and Society in Southern Africa, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 8-9 November 2009.
Session Chair and Panelist, ‘The Documentation Initiatives on the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa: Concluding Workshop of the Nordic Documentation Project’, Unisa, 26-27 November 2009.

‘From Nuclear Pariah to Non-Proliferation Hero: Legacies of South Africa’s nuclear policy’. LSE Ideas, London, 2 March 2010.
Respondent at seminar on ‘Energy security and diplomacy’ at the Department of Political Science, University of Pretoria, 16 April 2010.
Respondent to guest paper on ‘The ZIPA moment in Zimbabwe’s Liberation War: A historical look at a political challenge’, at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Johannesburg, 20 April 2010.
Invited participant, Workshop on the History of Nuclear Proliferation, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, 9 June 2010.
Invited paper: ‘From Nuclear Power to Non-Proliferation Hero: South Africa's Nuclear Legacy’, at a conference on ‘Uncovering the Sources of Nuclear Behavior: Historical Dimensions of Nuclear Proliferation’, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-20 June 2010.

PhD (History). Ohio State University. Member of dissertation committee. Title of dissertation: ‘Race and Revolution: The Crisis of White Redoubt in the Postcolonial Era, 1958-1971’. [Completed].
PhD (International Studies). Monash University. Title of thesis: ‘Building the Promise: Kenyan Democracy and the Power of the Executive in the Constitution, Post-2007’. [Continuing].