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Princeton University

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5.04/23/2026

Encourages independent and critical thought.

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About Jacob

Jacob S. T. Dlamini is Professor of History at Princeton University and Director of the Program in African Studies. He joined the Princeton faculty in the Department of History in 2015. Dlamini is a historian of Africa, with research interests in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial African history, comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks, environmental history, Sub-Saharan Africa, historiography, intellectual history, political history, and social history. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and the University of Sussex in England. He is affiliated with Princeton's High Meadows Environmental Institute and serves as an AB Adviser at Mathey College. Dlamini is also a qualified South African field guide.