Prof Owen Skae
MCom(Rhodes), MBA(Dunelm)
Owen Skae is an Associate Professor and succeeded Gavin Staude as Director: Rhodes Business School with effect from 1 January 2010.
Owen studied at Rhodes University from 1983 to 1988, where he completed his undergraduate studies and read for an M.Com in the Department of Management. Immediately thereafter he read for an MBA degree at Durham University in England.
He returns to his alma mater after extensive experience in the consulting arena, the private sector, academia and most latterly an international organization.
He is formerly an Associate Professor in Managerial Accounting & Finance at the School of Accounting at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he taught from 1996 to 2006. Most recently he worked for the Geneva based, International Trade Centre, the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, its main goal being to help developing countries achieve sustainable human development through exports. In this former capacity, he advised numerous countries on priorities for raising overall levels of competitiveness and assisting in the formulation of national and sector export strategies.
His areas of interest are strategic management, managerial accounting and finance and he also has a strong research background in business linkages and small business development.
Prof Owen Skae
MCom(Rhodes), MBA(Dunelm)
- Academic Qualifications
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B.A. at the University of Cape Town in 1978.
Courses: History I, II and III; Ancient History and Classical Archaeology; Cultural History of Western Europe I and II; English I and II; Religious Studies I and II.
B.A. Honours (History) at the University of South Africa in 1984.
Courses: Historiography and Philosophy of History; Method, Technique and Theory of History; African Societies in Southern Africa (with distinction); Union of South Africa; Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries (with distinction).
M.A. in History (with distinction) at Rhodes University in 1988
Thesis: ‘The Port Elizabeth Disturbances of October 1920’
Ph.D. in History at the University of Cape Town in 1994
Thesis: ‘New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, c.1903-1953: A History of an African Urban Community’
- Professional Qualifications
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Higher Diploma of Education (Post-Graduate) Secondary at the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- Secondary Teaching Experience
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Graeme College, Grahamstown, 1980.
Subject: History Stds 6-10.
Westering High School, Port Elizabeth, 1981-1985.
Subject: History Stds 6-10.
- Tertiary Teaching Experience
- References
- Available on request
Contact
Phone: 555-666-7777 Email: address@ru.ac.za Web: www.ru.ac.za
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Research
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Publications
- Books
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A History of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1903-1953
The Detroit of the Union (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), 408pp.
South Africa's ‘Border War’
Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 274 pp.
- Edited Works
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Beyond the Border War
(With Peter Vale)
New Perspectives on Southern Africa's Late Cold War Conflicts (With Peter Vale), (Unisa Press, 2008), 340pp.
- Chapters in Books
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‘Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue'
in M. Shiel & T. Fitzmaurice (eds.), Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (Blackwell, 2001), pp. 185-194.
‘Racist Hate Speech in South Africa's Fragile Democracy: The Case of Ngema's AmaNdiya’
in M. Drewett & M. Cloonan (eds.), Popular Music Censorship in Africa (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 53-70.
‘The Politics of Public History in Post-Apartheid South Africa’
in Hans Eric Stolten (ed.), History making and present day politics: the meaning of collective memory in South Africa (Nordica Africa Institute, 2007), pp. 167-182.
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