Jacob Dlamini is a historian of Africa, with an interest in ancient, colonial, and postcolonial African history. He obtained a PhD from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. Jacob held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from 2011 to 2015, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2014 to 2015. A qualified field guide, Jacob is also interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks.