Books and Edited Collections (peer reviewed)
In preparation
Rebecca Swartz and Felicity Jensz (eds.) Unsettled childhoods in southern spaces (proposal under review with Helsinki University Press)
In preparation
Children and Freedom: Reconfiguring Childhoods in the post-emancipation Cape and the British Empire, 1820-1850 (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, to be submitted end 2024)
2019
Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880 (Cham: Palgrave, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2019). Winner of SHCY Grace Abbott book prize and ISCHE first book prize.
2016
Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (eds.) Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective (New York: Peter Lang, 2016). (Republished by UKZN Press, 2019).
Journal Special Editions (peer reviewed)
2023
Rebecca Swartz and Felicity Jensz ‘Children and institutions’, Special issue of Settler Colonial Studies, 13 (4), 463-580.
2018
Rebecca Swartz and Peter Kallaway, eds. Special Section: ‘Imperial, global and local in histories of colonial education’, History of Education, 47(3) (2018), 362-431.
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
2023
Felicity Jensz and Rebecca Swartz, ‘Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts: a trans-imperial perspective’, Settler Colonial Studies 13 (4), 463-483.
2023
Histories of Empire and Histories of Education’, History of Education 52 (2-3), 442-461.
2021
George Bishi, Victor Gwande, Kundai Manamere, Duncan Money, Ana Stevenson, Rebecca Swartz & Sarah-Jane Walton, ‘A trove for historians of Africa: reflections from the International Studies Group and research associates’, History Australia DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2021.1993746.
2021
‘Children in between: Child migrants from England to the Cape in the 1830s’, History Workshop Journal 91(1) (2021), 71-90.
2021
‘Child apprenticeship in the Cape colony: The case of the Children’s Friend Society Emigration scheme, 1833-1841,’ Slavery & Abolition 42(3) (2021), 567-588.
2020
Laura Czerniewicz, Rada Mogliacci, Sukaina Walji, Rebecca Swartz, Mariya Ivancheva and NP Morris, ‘Negotiating the ‘new normal’: University leaders and marketisation’ South African Journal of Higher Education 34(3) (2020), 49-64.
2020
Mariya Ivancheva, Rebecca Swartz, NP Morris, Sukaina Walji, Brownen Swinnerton, Taryn Coop and Laura Czerniewicz, ‘Conflicting Logics of Online Higher Education’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 10.1080/01425692.2020.1784707.
2019
Rebecca Swartz, Mariya Ivancheva, Laura Czerniewicz and Neil Morris, ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa’, Higher Education, 77 (4) (2019), 567 -583.
2018
‘Civilisation and Colonial Education: Natal and Western Australia in comparative perspective’, History of Education, 47 (3) (2018), 368-383.
2018
Rebecca Swartz and Peter Kallaway, ‘Editorial: Imperial, global and local in histories of colonial education’, History of Education, 47(3) (2018), 362-367.
2017
‘Educating emotions in Natal and Western Australia, 1854-1865’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18 (2) (2017), n.p.
2016
Rebecca Swartz and Johan Wassermann, ‘“Britishness”, colonial governance and education: St Helenian children in colonial Natal in the 1870s’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 44(6) (2016), 881-899.
2016
‘“Good citizens and gentlemen”: Gender, reputation and identity at the South African College, 1880-1910’, South African Historical Journal 68(4) (2016), 517-535.
Edited Book Chapters (peer reviewed)
2023
with Ana Stevenson ‘Slavery and its Meanings in the British World: Historiography, Knowledge Production, and Research Ethics’, in Research as More Than Extraction
Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies, ed. by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2023), 155-176.
2022
‘Artisans and Aristocracy: Industrial Boarding Schools for Elite Africans in the Cape colony’, in Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. by Daniel Gerster and Felicity Jensz (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 59-78. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99041-1_3)
2021
‘Children’s experiences of the Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme to the colonial Cape, 1833-1841: Snapshots from compliance to rebellion’, in Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain, ed. by Sian Pooley and Jonathan Taylor (London: Institute of Historical Research Press, 2021), 27-48.
2020
Bronwen Swinnerton, Taryn Coop, Mariya Ivancheva, Laura Czerniewicz, Neil P. Morris, Rebecca Swartz, Sukaina Walji and Alan Cliff, ‘The Unbundled University: Researching Emerging Models in an Unequal Landscape’, in Mobility, Data and Learner Agency in Networked Learning, ed. by Nina Bonderup Dohn, Petar Jandrić, Thomas Ryberg, and Maarten de Laat, Mobility, Data and Learner Agency in Networked Learning (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020), 19–34.
2016
‘Industrial education in Natal: The British imperial context, 1830-1860’ in Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (New York: Peter Lang, 2016), 53-80.
2016
Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz ‘Introduction’ in Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (New York: Peter Lang, 2016), 1-28.
Peer reviewed conference proceedings
2018
Laura Czerniewicz, Rada Mogliacci, Sukaina Walji, Rebecca Swartz, Mariya Ivancheva, Bronwen Swinnerton, Neil Morris, Negotiating the ‘new normal’: How decision makers in higher education perceive marketisation in the sector’, HERDSA Annual Conference, Adelaide: (Re)Valuing Higher Education, 2-5 July 2018.
2018
Bronwen Swinnerton, Mariya Ivancheva, Taryn Coop, Carlo Perrotta, Neil P. Morris, Rebecca Swartz, Laura Czerniewicz, Sukaina Walji and Alan Cliff, The Unbundled University: Researching emerging models in an unequal landscape. Preliminary findings from fieldwork in South Africa. In: Bajić, M, Dohn, NB, de Laat, M, Jandrić, P and Ryberg, T, (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Networked Learning 2018. Networked Learning 2018, 14-16 May 2018, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 218-226. ISBN 9781862203372.
Book reviews
2023
Children and Youth in African History, by S.E.Duff, South African Historical Journal.
2019
Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa, by Linda Chisholm, Paedagogica Historica DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2019.1590426.
2016
‘Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony, by S.E.Duff’, South African Historical Journal 69(1) (2017),138-140.
Encyclopaedia entries
2018
‘Settler Colonies’, in Mark Doyle (ed.), The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018), 135-137.
National Research Foundation Rating
2021
Y1 rating – ‘A young researcher (within 5 years from PhD) who is recognised by all reviewers as having the potential (demonstrated by research products) to establish herself as a researcher with some of them indicating that she has the potential to become a future leader in her field.’
Professional development
2023
Selected for the UFS Future Professoriate Mentoring Programme, January 2023.
2023
Completed CREST Online Training for Supervisors of Doctoral Candidates at African Universities passed with 90% in December 2023.
Other Academic Awards
2007-2009
Class Medals for top place achieved for third year courses Critical Psychology, Historical Approaches, Film and History; Second year courses Gender and History, Making of the Modern Middle East; and First year Historical studies course Peoples, Politics and Place.
2007-2009
Dean’s Merit List, Humanities, University of Cape Town
2007
Mandelbrote Book Prize for top first year History student, University of Cape Town.
2006
Placed third in Western Cape for isiXhosa (second additional language) in matriculation results.