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  1. ‘Jaws Full of Nails’: How South Africa Invented the World’s Most Terrifying Police Dog

    Article • December 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Sandra Swart

  2. The occult goes underground: Rumour, rituals, and the everyday entrepreneurship of women in artisanal gold mining in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, c. 2000–2021.

    Article • The Extractive Industries and Society, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Sandra Swart

  3. ‘Our stomachs are still hungry’: The colonial state, African Nutrition and small grains in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), c.1950 to 1970s

    Article • Critical African Studies, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  4. ESEH Notepad: Introducing the New ESEH Presidential Team

    Article • Environment and History, November 2023, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  5. Introduction: New Geographies in Animal History

    Article • Global Environment, February 2023, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  6. Little Grey Men? Animals and Alien Kinship

    Article • Global Environment, February 2023, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  7. ESEH Notepad: 11th Biennial European Society For Environmental History (ESEH) Conference Report

    Article • Environment and History, November 2022, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  8. Joanna Bourke. Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love

    Article • The American Historical Review, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sandra Swart

  9. ‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ (Nhasi tinokama imbwa)* – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–1950

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  10. Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–80

    Article • The Journal of African History, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  11. Coffee House Conversations: Historians on the Current Moment

    Article • South African Historical Journal, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  12. A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  13. Editorial Collective Introductory Note

    Article • South African Historical Journal, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  14. At the Edge of the Anthropocene: Crossing Borders in Southern African Environmental History

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  15. ‘Reflections on Lockdown’

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  16. Big cat acts and big men: performing power and gender in South Africa’s circus industry, c.1888–1916

    Article • Early Popular Visual Culture, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  17. A silenced spring? Exploring Africa’s ‘Rachel Carson moment’: A socio-environmental history of the pesticides in tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia, 1945–80

    Article • International Review of Environmental History, November 2019, ANU Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  18. ‘Dairying Is a White Man’s Industry’: The Dairy Produce Act and the Segregation Debate in Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1920–1937

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  19. Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct?

    Article • November 2018, Brill

    Professor Sandra Swart

  20. Farmer–Miner Contestations and the British South Africa Company in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1895–1923

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Tapiwa Madimu, Professor Sandra Swart

  21. History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015

    Article • Tydskrif vir letterkunde, August 2018, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Sandra Swart

  22. ‘Dangerous People’ or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love being an Historian

    Article • South African Historical Journal, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  23. Writing animals into African history

    Article • Critical African Studies, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  24. ‘This is a land of honey – no milk, bar sour!’ African milk regimes and the emergence of a colonial order in Southern Rhodesia 1890s–1907

    Article • Critical African Studies, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  25. ‘Better Breeds?’ The Colonial State, Africans and the Cattle Quality Clause in Southern Rhodesia, c.1912–1930

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  26. Special Issue: The State, The Citizen and Power

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  27. The Whiteness of Antarctica: Race and South Africa’s Antarctic History

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sandra Swart

  28. 'It is no use advising us! Command us and we will obey': Livestock Management, Soil Conservation and the State in Southern Rhodesia, c.1930-50

    Article • Environment and History, November 2015, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  29. Reviving Roadkill? Animals in the New Mobilities Studies

    Article • Transfers, June 2015, Berghahn Journals

    Professor Sandra Swart

  30. Falling off the Map: South Africa, Antarctica and Empire,c. 1919–59

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  31. Frankenzebra: Dangerous Knowledge and the Narrative Construction of Monsters

    Article • Journal of Literary Studies, October 2014, UNISA Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  32. ‘It Is As Bad To Be a Black Man's Animal As It Is To Be a Black Man’ – The Politics of Species in Sol Plaatje'sNative Life in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  33. The Stag of the Eastern Cape: Power, Status and Kudu Hunting in the Albany and Fort Beaufort Districts, 1890 to 1905

    Article • African Historical Review, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  34. Satanic moral panic in white South Africa

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociology, March 2014, Wiley

    Danielle Dunbar, Professor Sandra Swart

  35. ‘The Pots on Our Roads’

    Article • African Diaspora, January 2014, Brill

    Professor Sandra Swart

  36. Ferality and Morality: The Politics of the “Forbidden Experiment” in the Twentieth Century

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sandra Swart

  37. The South African Defence Force and Horse Mounted Infantry Operations, 1974-1985

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2013, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Sandra Swart

  38. Animating Animals: Historiography and Biomobilities

    Article • Mobility in History, January 2013, Berghahn Journals

    Professor Sandra Swart

  39. ‘No less a foe than Satan himself’: The Devil, Transition and Moral Panic in White South Africa, 1989–1993

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Danielle Dunbar, Professor Sandra Swart

  40. 'You were men in war time' - The manipulation of gender identity in war and peace

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Sandra Swart

  41. “Dark Horses”: The Horse in Africa in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Article • January 2012, Brill

    Professor Sandra Swart

  42. Changes to the South African Historical Journal

    Article • South African Historical Journal, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  43. Designing Equids in South Africa and North America

    Article • Safundi, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  44. “The World the Horses Made”: A South African Case Study of Writing Animals into Social History

    Article • International Review of Social History, August 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  45. Horses in the South African War, c. 1899-1902

    Article • Society and Animals, January 2010, Brill

    Professor Sandra Swart

  46. "The Terrible Laughter of the Afrikaner"--Towards a Social History of Humor

    Article • Journal of Social History, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sandra Swart

  47. Book Reviews

    Article • South African Historical Journal, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  48. "The Terrible Laughter of the Afrikaner"- Towards a Social History of Humor

    Article • Journal of Social History, January 2009, Project Muse

    Professor Sandra Swart

  49. ‘High Horses’ – Horses, Class and Socio-Economic Change in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, February 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  50. Dogs and dogma: A discussion of the socio-political construction of southern african dog ‘breeds’ as a window onto social history

    Article • January 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Sandra Swart

  51. 'Motherhood and Otherhood' - gendered citizenship and Afrikaner women in the South African 1914 Rebellion

    Article • African Historical Review, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  52. Canis Africanis

    Article • October 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Sandra Swart

  53. “But Where's the Bloody Horse?”: Textuality and Corporeality in the “Animal Turn”

    Article • Journal of Literary Studies, September 2007, UNISA Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  54. Agricultural History Talks to Sandra Swart

    Article • Agricultural History, July 2007, Duke University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  55. The ‘Five Shilling Rebellion’: Rural White Male Anxiety and the 1914 Boer Rebellion

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  56. “Horses! Give Me More Horses!”: White Settler Identity, Horses, and the Making of Early Modern South Africa

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sandra Swart

  57. The construction of Eugène Marais as an Afrikaner hero

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  58. ‘BUSHVELD MAGIC’ AND ‘MIRACLE DOCTORS’–AN EXPLORATION OF EUGÈNE MARAIS AND C. LOUIS LEIPOLDT'S EXPERIENCES IN THE WATERBERG, SOUTH AFRICA, c. 1906–1917

    Article • The Journal of African History, July 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sandra Swart

  59. “Men of Influence”– The Ontology of Leadership in the 1914 Boer Rebellion

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociology, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Sandra Swart

  60. Canis Familiaris:A Dog History of South Africa

    Article • South African Historical Journal, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  61. Dogs and Dogma: A Discussion of the Socio-Political Construction of Southern African Dog 'Breeds' as a Window on Social History

    Article • South African Historical Journal, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  62. Mythic bushmen in Afrikaans literature

    Article • Current Writing, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  63. ‘Desperate Men’: The 1914 Rebellion and the Polities of Poverty

    Article • South African Historical Journal, May 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  64. ‘A boer and his gun and his wife are three things always together’: republican masculinity and the 1914 rebellion

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, December 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sandra Swart

  65. Men in the Third World: Postcolonial Perspectives on Masculinity

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Sandra Swart