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24 November 2004
A South African academic has been appointed Head of the School of Arts at Monash South Africa.
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From left: Dr Iain Edwards and Associate Professor Kevin Foster
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Dr Iain Edwards, whose primary research interests are modern South African history and politics and research methodologies, completed his undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Natal in Durban.
Currently a senior lecturer in International Studies at MSA, Dr Edwards will take up his appointment at the beginning of December, replacing Associate Professor Kevin Foster, who has been in South Africa on a two-year secondment from Monash's Clayton campus.
"Under Dr Foster's care the school has doubled in both student numbers and subjects offered, so it is an exciting time," Dr Edwards said.
Dr Edwards is also an honorary research associate in the School of Historical Studies at Monash and engaged on three major research and publishing projects.
He is the historical consultant on warfare and nationalism to Freedom Park -- the South African Government's premier new National Heritage site; he is co-authoring the memoirs of a leading anti-apartheid politician and editing a collection of his private political papers; and co-editing and contributing to a book on history, politics and memory in association with Dr Foster.
Together with Natoo Babenia, he co-authored Memoirs of a Saboteur (Mayibuye Press, Cape Town, 1995) and contributed to, and co-edited The People's City: The History of African Life in Durban, (Heinemann & Natal University Press, New Haven & Pietermaritzburg, 1997).
More recently he has been a ministerial advisor on transport and defence to the South African government at both provincial and national levels. | 
