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Head of Department

Professor Sisa NgabazaProf Sisa Ngabaza

Position: Co-Convener of WGS 211 Gender in SA politics & cultures; WGS 311 Gender & Development; Co-Convenor of WGS 321 Research Project
Email: sngabaza@uwc.ac.za

Sisa Ngabaza has been teaching Gender and development as well as Gender in South African politics and culture for many years. Her research and writing revolve around: decolonial feminist issues; sexuality education, the intersection of young people and sexualities, gender-based violence and women with disabilities and photo voice research. 

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching

2024: Guest public Lecture VUB, Belgium (24 May)
2019: Visiting scholar to teach on UNU-GEST Programme, University of  Iceland, Reykjavik( 15-24 March )
2018:  Visiting Scholar Ghent University, Centre for Gender and Culture (September to  November)
2013: Visiting UMAPS Scholar: African Studies Centre/ International Research for Women and Gender. University of Michigan, USA (August- December)

 

Selected latest publications

  • Ngabaza, S. (2025). The “Desires Of The Flesh”: Young People Exploring Sexuality On Social Media. Gender Questions, 1-19.  
  • Ngabaza, S. & Shefer, T. ( 2025). Rethinking Sexuality Education In South African contexts: Decolonial Feminist Provocations. In T. Shefer, C. Rustin & F. Boonzaier, (eds.), Reimagining Social Justice Scholarship: Creative Decolonial Feminism In South Africa And Beyond (pp.190-202). Routledge
  • Ngabaza , S. (2025). Enhancing Governance And Women’s Rights: Zimbabwe’s Path In The APRM. In O. Fagbadebo  and I U. Ile (eds.), Political Governance and the African Peer Review Mechanism A Comparative Analysis, (pp 127-141) Springer
  • Ngabaza, S. (2024). Reflecting On Responses To Women With Disabilities’ Experiences Of Gender-Based Violence In South Africa. Social and Health Sciences,22(1) 1-9.
  • Shefer T. & Ngabaza, S. (2024). Re-imagining South African Women’s And Gender Studies In Dialogue With Decolonial, Feminist Struggle. In (A. Torres, T. Shefer, and J. Hearn, (eds).Handbook of Global Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities (pp 210-224) Routledge.
  • Ngabaza, S. (2023). Doc, Do You Do It? Disrupting Gendered Norms In Learning Spaces. In L Clowes, LJ Theo, N Sanger, L Mabenge & S Ngabaza (eds,). Feeling Lives: An Intersectional Exploration Of Past Experiences and Present Living. Sun Media.
  • Clowes, L.,Theo, L.J., Sanger, N. Mabenge, L. & Ngabaza , S. (2023). (eds.), Feeling Lives: An Intersectional Exploration Of Past Experiences And Present Living. Sun Media
  • Clowes, L.,Theo, L.J., Sanger, N. Mabenge, L. & Ngabaza , S. (2023). “Introduction” In L Clowes, LJ Theo, N Sanger, L Mabenge & S Ngabaza (2023). (eds.), Feeling Lives: An Intersectional Exploration Of Past Experiences And Present Living. Sun Media                                                 
  • Shefer, T. & Ngabaza, S. (2023). Sexuality Education For Gender Justice In South African Contexts: Pitfalls And Possibilities. Pretoria: CSA&G Pretoria University
  • Ngabaza, S. (2022). Parents Resist Sexuality Education Through Digital Activism. Journal Of Education, 89,84-104.   
  • Ngabaza, S & Shefer, T. ( 2022). Sexuality Education For Sexual And Reproductive Justice? Deconstructing The Dominant Response To Young People’s Sexualities In Contemporary Schooling Contexts. In T Morrison and J Mavuso (eds.), Sexual And Reproductive Justice: From The Margins To The Centre( 191-208). Lanham; Lexington books.
  • Oyebanji, K., & Ngabaza, S. (2022). Young Women Survivors Speak About Structural Violence And Vulnerabilities To Human Trafficking. In M. Boskovic, G. Misev, & N. Putnik (eds.), Fighting For Empowerment In An Age Of Violence (pp. 37-54). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684- 4964-6.ch   
  • Shefer, T., Clowes, L. & Ngabaza, S. (2020). Student Experience: A Participatory Parity Lens On Social (In)justice In Higher Education. in V. Bozalek, D. Hölscher and M. Zembylas (eds). Nancy Fraser And Participatory Parity: Reframing Social Justice In South African Higher Education(pp.63-76). New York: Routledge.

Academic Staff

Prof Desiree Lewis
Prof Desiree Lewis

Qualifications: MA (Wits), MA (York), PhD (UCT)
Position: Professor and Postgraduate Programme Coordinator (Convenor of WGS731; WGS 832 (Feminist Theory) and WGS312 Gender & Embodiment)
Email: dlewis@uwc.ac.za

Desiree Lewis has been teaching and writing on feminist theorising, politics material, visual and literary culture for over three decades. Among her accolades are:

  • Holding a research fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Scholarship(STIAS)
  • Being the recipient of the National Institute for Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS) award for best edited collection in South Africa.
  • Being awarded a research fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Scholarship(JIAS)
  • Being Marie Johada Visiting Professor  in International Gender Studies in Germany 
  • Being Fulbright scholar-in-residence in Women’s Studies in the US 

Lewis has also taught and lectured in Sweden, the US, Finland, Germany, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Uganda; delivered keynotes at several international conferences; and served on councils and boards of academic journals such as the Australian Journal of Gender Studies, the National English Literary Museum and the Sara Baartman Centre for Women and Children.

She is the guest editor of several special issues of feminist journals, Feminist Africa and Agenda, and was the main editor of Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (2021).

Lewis’ current feminist work focuses on critical food studies and postcolonial challenges to anthropocentricism. She has been the lead PI of the intra-institutional Critical Food Studies Programme, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. (See https://criticalfoodstudies.org.za/),dand has edited several journal special issues on this subject. She is currently invested in the possibilities of this work as practice-based and trans-generic knowledge-making beyond the academy.

Desiree Lewis’ best-known publications in the last five years are:

  • 2025/6: “Feminist Africa And African Feminism: Mid-1990s – Present”, Forthcoming In Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches, Eds.  Bakare-Yusuf,  Boyce Davies, et al. Bloomsbury
  • 2025: “Transnational Theorising, Embodied Feminism And Food”, Forthcoming In Transnational Feminist Culinarians, eds. Farha Ternikar and Janeke Lewis. SUNY Press.
  • 2025/2026: “Food Pasts and Futures In Waiting For the Barbarians: A Personal Essay, Forthcoming In Transnational Speculative Fictions And Food Pasts And Futures, Johan Hoglund, Desiree Lewis, Paul Young and Heather Thuynsma. Eds. University of Pretoria Press.
  • 2024. Co-edited with Vasu Reddy and Lebola Moletsane, Thinking Though Food In South Africa, University of Pretoria Press. (In Print)
  • 2023: Journal of African Cultural Studies, Guest editor of special issue on “Rethinking Africa Through Food." (2024)
  • 2023: Co-edited with Ben Stanley and Lynn Mafofo Matatu: Journal For African Culture And Society, Special Issue On South African Food Studies, 54, 1 
  • 2023: Agenda, Special Issue On Transnational Perspectives On Food, Ecology And The Anthropocene, 37, 1
  • 2022: "Reading Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson: A Personal Essay", English in Africa, 49, 3.
  • 2021. Co-edited with Gabeba Baderoon, Surfacing: On Being Black And Feminist in South Africa, Wits University Press 
  • 2021: Co-edited with Vasu Reddy, Gender Questions Special Issue on Food Studies And Feminism in Southern Africa. 

Selected Guest Professorships and Teaching

  • 2018 and 2019: Visiting Professor at African Gender Institute, UCT 
  • 2017: Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (January- April) 
  • 2017: International Course on Education for Political Educators, Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
  • 2013: Seminars and Guest Lectures at the Centre for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University, (March-April)

Professor Tamara SheferProf Tamara Shefer

Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA (UCT), DPhil (UWC)
Position: Senior Professor (Convenor of WGS711; WGS806 (Feminist Research Methodologies); WGS736 and WGS836 [elective]; Co-convenor of WGS323 Research Project)
Email: tshefer@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 3360

Research Specialisation

Tamara Shefer is Senior Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. Her scholarship has Her scholarship has foregrounded the study of gender and sexualities within postcolonial, decolonial, transnational feminist and critical masculinities thinking, with particular emphasis on young people.

She is currently engaged with re-conceptualising academic knowledge with emphasis on embodied, affective, feminist, decolonial pedagogies and research, including collaborations across art and activism and thinking with oceans and water.

Her most recent books include: A Feminist Critique of Sexuality Education for Gender Justice in South African Contexts (co-authored with S. Ngabaza, 2023, CSA&G Pretoria University); Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities: A Transnational Feminist Engagement (co-authoured with J. Hearn, 2022, Routledge); and The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (co-edited with L. Gottzén & U. Mellström, 2020). She is also co-editor (with V. Bozalek & N. Romano) on the recently published volume Hydrofeminist Thinking With ocean/s: Political And Scholarly Possibilities (Routledge, 2024).

Selected guest professorships, teaching and residencies

  • 2024 Visiting faculty at GRO-GEST Programme, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 23-24 January
  • 2023 Visiting faculty at Women’s Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden, 15 – 30 May
  • 2023-2025 Work package Leader on EU Horizon 3 year project RE-WIRING hosted at Utrecht University
  • 2022 Erasmus Mundus+ visiting faculty to GEMMA, Utrecht and Vienna
  • 2020 and 2017: Visiting Faculty to teach on UNU-GEST Programme, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 
  • 2019: Guest public lecture and research project meetings, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and Ghent University, Belgium
  • 2018: Research project meetings and presentations at Universities of Linkoping and Orebro, Sweden.
  • 2017: Research project meetings and presentation at University of Bergen.
  • 2016: Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.

Selected publications

  • Shefer, T., Bozalek, V. & Romano, N. (2024). Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans: Political And Scholarly Possibilities. London: Routledge.
  • Hussen, T. S. & Shefer, T. (2024). Conditional Solidarity: Men and Masculinities In Social Justice Movements. In J. Hearn, K. Aavik, D.L. Collinson & A. Thym (eds), Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organisations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organising(pp. 33-48). London and New York: Routledge.
  • Hussen, T. S. & Shefer, T. (2024). #MeToo Through A Decolonial Feminist Lens: Critical Reflections On Transnational Online Activism Against Sexual Violence. In Lykke, N., Koobak, R., Bakos, P., Arora, S. & Mohamed, K.(eds). Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from A Place. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Shefer, T. (2024). Disrupting The Colonial Gaze: Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People In South Africa. In Lykke, N., Koobak, R., Bakos, P., Arora, S. & Mohamed, K.(eds). Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from A Place. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Shefer, T. & Ngabaza, S. (2023). A Feminist Critique of Sexuality Education For Gender Justice in South African Contexts. Pretoria: CSA&G Pretoria University.
  • Shefer, T. & Hearn, J. (2022). Knowledge, Power And Young Sexualities: A Feminist Transnational Engagement. London: Routledge.
  • Shefer, T. & Ratele, K. (2023). South African Critical Masculinities Studies: A Scan Of Past, Current and Emerging Priorities. NORMA, 18(2), 72-88.
  • Shefer, T., Zembylas, M. & Bozalek, V. (2023). Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards An Affirmative Scholarship. SOTL in the South, 7(1), 147-167.
  • Mabin, A. & Shefer, T. (2023). Genders, Sexualities and Cities: Global Contexts and Local Possibilities. Journal of Social and Health Sciences, 21(1&2), 1-22.
  • Shefer, T. (2023). Aesthetics And Politics In Contemporary South Africa: Thinking With A ‘Poetics Of Recycling. In S. Ponzanesi, K. Thiele, E. Midden, D. Oliviera & T. Oorschot (eds), Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics(pp. 211-220). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Shefer, T., Sabelis, I. & Wels, H. (2023). Challenging Patriarchal, Colonial Patronage in Anthropocentric Engagements With 'Nature Conservation'. In Mellström, U. & Pease, B. Eds), Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities (pp. 99-112). New York and London: Routledge.
  • Shefer, T. (2023) Thinking With Creativity, Affect And Embodiment In Sexual Justice Scholarship. In Bhana, D., Crewe, M. and Aggleton, P. (eds), Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa: Contemporary perspectives (pp. 159-172). New York and London: Routledge.
  • Ngabaza, S. & Shefer, T. (2022) Sexuality Education For Sexual and Reproductive Justice? Deconstructing The Dominant Response To Young People's Sexualities In Contemporary Schooling Contexts in South Africa. In Morison, T. & Mavuso, J.M.J. (eds), Sexual and Reproductive Justice: From the margins to the centre (pp. 191-208). Maryland: Lexington.
  • Shefer, T. & Bozalek, V. (2022) Wild Swimming Methodologies For Decolonial Feminist Justice-To-Come Scholarship. Feminist Review, 130(1), 26-43.
  • Shefer, T. (2021) Care Ethics And Relationalities In A Project Of Reimagining Scholarship In/Through Feminist Decolonial Pedagogy And Research. In Bozalek, V., Zembylas, M. & Tronto, J. (eds), Posthuman and political care ethics for reconfiguring higher education pedagogies (pp. 107-122). London and New York: Routledge.
  • Shefer, T. (2021) Sea Hauntings And Haunted Seas For Embodied Place-Space-Mattering For Social Justice Scholarship. In Bozalek, V, Zembylas M, Holscher, D and Motala, S. (eds). Higher Education Hauntologies: Speaking with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (pp. 76-87) Oxon: Routledge.
  • Gottzén, L., Mellström, U., and Shefer, T. (Eds.) (2020). The International Handbook of Masculinity Studies. London: Routledge.

 

Dr Carmine RustinDr Carmine Rustin

Qualifications: BA, BA (Hons), MA, PhD (UWC)
Position: Lecturer,Undergraduate Coordinator (Co-convenor of WGS 214 Gender in SA politics & culture; WGS711; WGS806 [Feminist Research Methodologies])
Email: crustin@uwc.ac.za

Research specialisation

I have a keen interest in gender justice, gender equality, women in politics and gendered legislative reforms having worked in the Parliament of South Africa for 16 years. My interest in gender justice has led to my pursuit of research related to gender equality, happiness (subjective well-being). My research foregrounds feminist research methodologies, with a focus on qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as mixed methods research. I am currently a researcher on the Andrew W. Mellon foundation project entitled ‘New Imaginaries a critical humanities project on gender and sexual justice’

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching

September 2018 - April 2020: Post-doctoral Fellow - Andrew W. Mellow New imaginaries for an intersectional feminist, queer project on gender and sexual justice

Selected publications

  • Ratele, K., Rustin, C., & Florence, M. (2024). Quality Of life And Mental Health: A Situated African Psychological Perspective. In Reddy, V., Bohler-Muller, N., Mokomane, Z. & Soudien, C. (Eds.). State of the Nation-Quality of Life and Wellbeing in South Africa. HSRC Press.
  • Boonzaier, F., Malinga, M., & Rustin, C. (2023). "We Lost A Lot During COVID": Migrant Women’s Reflections On Precarity, Work and COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa. Social and Health Sciences, 10-pages.
  • Ratele, K., & Rustin, C. (2023). African-Centered Psychological Perspective On Happiness. The Qualitative Report, 28(10), 2936-2952.
  • Rustin, C. (2023). Studying Happiness In Post-Colonial, Post-Apartheid South Africa: Theoretical And Methodological Considerations. In Lykke, N.; Koobak, R.; Bakos, P.; Arora, S. & Mohamed, K. (Eds.). Pluriversal Conversations On Transnational Feminisms. And Words Collide From A Place. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • Rustin, C. (2023). Surprising And Not So Surprising Places To Learn About Equality And Justice In Watson, J and Nzewi, O (eds), Striving For Social Equity. Karavan Press
  • Rustin, C., & Shefer, T. (2022). Women’s Narratives On Gender Equality And Subjective Well-Being In Contemporary South Africa. Gender Questions, 10(1), 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/9343
  • Rustin, C., & Shefer, T. (2022). Review Of The Covid Diaries: Women’s Experiences Of The Pandemic by A. Gouws and O. Ezeobi (eds. 2021). International Journal Of Care And Caring, 6, (1-2), pp. 303-307(5), DOI: 10.1332/239788221X16323395401489
  • Rustin, C. (2021): What Gender Legislative Reforms Have Meant For Women In South Africa. Law, Democracy And Development, 25, 47 – 70. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2077- 4907/2020/ldd.v25.spe3
  • Rustin, C. & Florence, M. (2021). Gender Equality And Women’s Happiness In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Agenda, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2021.1917298
  • Rustin, C (2019). Surprise! Most Women Are Happy. Weekend Argus, August 11.

 

Ms Baleseng Maeneche
Ms Baleseng Maeneche

Qualifications: BA, BSocSci (Hons), MA (UWC)
Position: Lecturer in nGAP, Convener: WGS 213 Introduction to Sex, Gender and Sexuality
Email: bmaeneche@uwc.ac.za

Research specialisation

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Selected Fellowships, International Workshops and Research Awards

  • 2026 April International Writing Workshop for Early Career Researchers, Global South Unit for Mediation, PUC-Rio, Brazil
  • 2025 December International Symposium on Whiteness in Relation: Global Coloniality, Transnational Circulations, Southern Theorisations, UWC, South Africa
  • 2025 October International Workshop Gesture, Movement, Freedom: On the
  • Micro, Centre for Humanities Research, South Africa
  • 2025 May Announced the winner of the Africa Thesis Award for 2024, African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands
  • 2024 September 2023 Dean’s Merit List, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
  • 2024 Jan - May GRO Gender Equality Studies and Training Fellowship, University of Iceland, Iceland

Selected publications
Blog Posts

Public Talks

Podcasts

Administrative Staff

Cwenga Daweti
Cwenga Daweti

Position: Administrative officer
Email: cdaweti@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2234

Emeritus Professor

Qualifications: PhD (Utrecht University)
Email: vbozalek@gmail.com

Research specialisation

Ethics of care, justice, feminist new materialism, posthumanism, postqualitative research, agential realism, hydrofeminism, Slow scholarship

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching
STIAS 2019

Selected publications
Books

  • Bozalek, V. Braidotti, R., Shefer, T. and Zembylas, M. (eds.) (2018) Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education. Bloomsbury.
  • Bozalek, V., Holscher, D. and Zembylas, M. (eds.) (2020) Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity: Reframing social justice in South African Higher Education. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780429055355 DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429055355
  • Bozalek, V., Zembylas, M. & Tronto, J. (eds.) (2021). Posthuman And Political Care Ethics For Reconfiguring Higher Education. London & New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Ebook ISBN 9781003028468 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003028468
  • Bozalek, V. & Pease, B. (eds.) (2021) Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge. Ebook ISBN 9780429329982 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329982 ISBN 9780367349653
  • Bozalek, V., Zembylas, M. Motala, S. & Holscher, D. (Eds.) (2021) Higher Education Hauntologies: Living With Ghosts For A Justice-To-Come. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Murris, K. & Bozalek, V. (eds.) (2023). In Conversation With Karen Barad: Doings Of Agential Realism. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Bozalek, V. & Zembylas, M. (2023). Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility And Response-ability: Higher Education, Coloniality And Ecological Damage. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan Press.
  • Shefer, T., Bozalek, V. & Romano, N. (2024) (Eds.). Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans: Political And Scholarly Options. London & New York: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Bozalek, V. (2017) Slow Scholarship In Writing Retreats: A Diffractive Methodology For Response-able Pedagogies. South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(2): 40-57.
  • Bozalek, V. and Zembylas, M. (2017) Towards A Response-able Pedagogy Across Higher Education Institutions In Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Ethico-Political Analysis. Education As Change, 21(2):62-85.
  • Bozalek, V. (2021). Slow Scholarship: Propositions For The Extended Curriculum Programme Education As Change, 25, 1-21 https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/9049
  • Carstens, D. & Bozalek, V. (2021). Understanding Displacement, (Forced) Migration And Historical Trauma: The Contribution Of Feminist New Materialism. Ethics and Social Welfare, 15:1, 68-83, DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2021.1881029
  • van der Waal, R., Mitchell, V., van Nistelrooij, I. & Bozalek, V. (2021). Obstetric Violence Within Students' Rite Of passage: The Reproduction Of The Obstetric Subject And Its Racialised (M)other. Agenda 35(3), 36-53, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2021.1958553
  • Bozalek, V. & Hölscher, D. (2022). From Imperialism To Radical Hospitality: Propositions For Reconfiguring Social Work Towards A Justice-To-Come. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 34(1)1-20.
  • Bozalek, V. (2022). Uncertainty Or Indeterminacy? Reconfiguring Curriculum Through Agential Realism. Education As Change, 26, 1-21 https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/11507
  • Motala, S., & Bozalek, V. (2022). Haunted Walks Of District Six: Propositions For Counter-Surveying. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), 244‐256. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211042349
  • Bozalek, V. G. (2022). Doing Academia Differently: Creative Reading/Writing-With Posthuman Philosophers. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(5), 552‐561. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211064939
  • Shefer, T. & Bozalek, V. (2022). Wild Swimming Methodologies For Decolonial Feminist Justice-To-Come Scholarship. Feminist Review, 130, 26-43.
  • Bozalek, V. & Hölscher, D. (2022). From Imperialism To Radical Hospitality: Propositions For Reconfiguring Social Work Towards A Justice-To-Come. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 34(1)1-20.
  • Bozalek, V. (2022). Uncertainty Or Indeterminacy? Reconfiguring Curriculum Through Agential Realism. Education as Change, 26, 1-21 https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/11507
  • Kuby, C. R., & Bozalek, V. (2023). Post Philosophies And The Doing of Inquiry: Webinars And WEBing Sessions Become A Special Issue(s). Qualitative Inquiry, 29(1), 3‐6. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221122288
  • Bozalek, V., & Romano, N. (2023). Immanent And Diffractive Critique In Scholarship And Publication. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL), 11(SI), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v11iSI.629
  • Bozalek, V. & Newfield, D. (2023). Doing Academia Differently. Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning In The South, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v7i1.350
  • Shefer, T., Zembylas, M. & Bozalek, V. (2023). Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards An Affirmative Scholarship. Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning In The South, 7(1), 147–167. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v7i1.299
  • Bozalek, V., Newfield, D., & Romano, N. (2023). Doing Concepts Differently. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, 7(1), 168‐189. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v7i1.304
  • Bozalek, V. (2023) Ethological Propositions For Curriculum Studies In Higher Education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 37 (5), 43-59. n https://dx.doi.org/10.20853/37-5

Extraordinary Professor

Qualifications: PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Email:h.wels@vu.nl

Research specialisation

Patriarchy and Masculinities in Nature Conservation in South Africa; Multispecies Organisational Ethnography; Diversity in Higher Education

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching

  • 2017-2021: Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria
  • 2014-2017: Extra ordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism, South Africa
  • 2005-2008: Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Environment and Development, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
  • 2003: Visiting Research Fellow, School for Human and Social Studies, University of Natal (now University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)(July-December)

Selected publications

  • Alwahaibi, I. and Dauletova, V., & Wels, H. (2024). Camel Ownership As A Passage To Adulthood In Omani Bedouin Culture, Anthrozoos 37(2), pp. 197-211
  • Wels, H., & Kamsteeg, K. (2023). ‘Wild Pedagogies For Doing Multispecies Organisational Ethnography: Using The tracking Craft Of The Southern African San', in: Tallberg, L. and Hamilton, L. (eds) The Oxford Handbook Of Animal Organization Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 159-17
  • Wels, H., & Rowe, M.(2023). ‘Book Review: The Value Of The Ethnographic Tradition And The Need To Look Forward’, Journal or Organizational Ethnography, 12(2), pp. 256-258. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2023-093
  • Boonzaaier, C., Wels, H. (2022). 'The Call Of 'Thinking Wild' In Times Of Climate Disaster. Indigenous Wisdom From Southern Africa, in Okech, R., Kieti, D. and Duim, van der, R. (eds) Tourism, Climate Change and Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa, Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden, pp. 139-151
  • Shefer, T., Sabelis, I & Wels, H. (2022). Colonial Patronage In Anthropocentric Engagements With ‘Nature Conservation’. Narratives of White Male Game Rangers in Southern Africa, in: Mellström, U. and Pease, B. (eds) Posthumanism And The Man Question. Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 99-112
  • Kamsteeg, F., Wels, H. (2022). ‘Double-Barrelled’ Ironies In History: A Coincidental Discovery Of Cecil John Rhodes At The Zuid-Afrika Huis In Amsterdam, in: Magic Visions: Portraying And Inventing South Africa With Lantern Slide,. Stobbe, J., Deen, R. & van der Waal, M. (eds.), Amsterdam: Zuid-Afrika Huis Cultuur en Kenniscentrum, 223-238
  • Alwahaibi, I. and Dauletova, V., Wels, H. (2022). Camels In The Bedouin Community Of Oman: Beyond The Human-Animal Binary, Anthrozoos, 36(1), pp. 1-14
  • Rowe, M, Wels, H. (2022).  ‘Book Review: Of What Is This A Case?’, Journal Of Organizational Ethnography, 11(3), 232-233
  • Kamsteeg, F. and Durrani, L, Wels, H. (2021). Organizational Ethnography After Lockdown: “Walking With The Rouble”, Journal Of Organizational Ethnography, 10(3), p. 358-368
  • Wels, H. & Birke, L. (2021). Connections: Live With Horses And Other Animals, in: Birke, L. and Wels, H. (eds) Dreaming Of Pegasus: Equine Imaginings, Stafforshire: Victorina Press, 1-17
  • Birke, L, & Wels, H. (2021). Dreaming Of Pegasus: Equine Imaginings, Stafforshire: Victorina Press, 165 p
  • Wels, H. (2020). Multi-Species Ethnography: Methodological Training In The Field In South Africa, Journal Of Organizational Ethnography, 9(3), p. 343-363
  • Turner, J., & Wels, H. (2020). Lion Conservation And The Lion Bone Trade In South Africa: On CITES, Shifting Paradigms, “Sustainable Use”, And Rehabilitation, The Oriental Anthropologist, 20(2), p. 303-314
  • Kamsteeg, F., Verbuyst, R., & Wels, H. (2020). De San In Zuidelijk Afrika: Over Solastalgie, ‘Rewilding’ En Een Oproep Tot ‘Nieuwe Zuinigheid’, Podium voor Bio-Ethiek, 27(3), p. 23-26
  • Kamsteeg, F. and Sabelis, I., & Wels, H. (2020). Auto-Ethnographic Reflections On Whiteness: Rethinking Diversity In Dutch-South African Higher Education Research, in: Crul, M., Ghorashi, H. Dick, L. and Valenzuela, A. (eds) Scholarly Engagement And Decolonisation: Views From South Africa, The Netherlands And The United States, Stellenbosch: Sun Media, 103-137

 

Qualifications: MA Oxford University; MA, Leeds University; PGDipTP, Oxford Brookes University; PhD, University of Bradford (all UK); honorary PhD, Lund University (Sweden)
Email:hearn@hanken.fi; jeff.hearn@oru.se; j.r.hearn@hud.ac.uk

Research specialisation

Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities; Gender, Intersectionality and Organisations; Violence, including Digital Violence; Transnational Studies 

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching

  • 2022-: Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden. 
  • 2019: Pufendorf Visiting Research Fellow and Affiliated Professor, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
  • 2018-2020: Professor Extraordinarius and Academic Associate, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa. 
  • 2017: 5th University of South Africa Doctoral Summer School, Johannesburg, November.
  • 2014: Dean’s Public Lecture, University of Western Cape; and All-day “Teach-in”, STIAS, University of Stellenbosch, UNISA, University of Western Cape, University of Cape Town, February.
  • 2013-2016: Guest Research Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden.
  • 2013-: Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland.
  • 2006-2013: Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities), Linköping University, Sweden.
  • 2003-: Professor, Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK

Selected publications

  • Chowdhury, R., Hearn, J., Matlon, J., Ratele, K., Philip, S., & Schmidt, M. (2025). Gender ‘Book symposium: Men, Masculinities and Southern Urbanism’, Place & Culture. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2521504
  • Aktaş, F., & Hearn, J. (2025). ‘Re-reading Men’s Facial Hair: The Case Of The Modernization Of The Turkish Civil Service’, The Journal Of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2467451.
  • Torres, A., Pinto, P., Shefer, T., & Hearn, J. (eds.) (2025). Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms And Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences And Pluralities, London: Routledge.
  • Seymour, K., Pease, B., Strid, S, & Hearn, J. (eds.) (2025). Interconnecting The Violences Of Men: Continuities And Intersections In Research, Policy And Activism, London: Routledge.
  • Hearn, J., Strid, S., Humbert, A.L., Bondestam, F., & Husu, L. (2025). ‘Gender-Based Violence In Higher Education And Research Performing Organisations: Three Steps In Critique And Reconceptualisation’, Journal Of Gender-based Violence. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jgbv/aop/article-10.1332-23986808Y2025D000000093/article-10.1332-23986808Y2025D000000093.xml
  • Strid, S., & Hearn, J. (2025). ‘Gender-based Violence In Academic And Research Workplaces: Pervasiveness In Higher Education And Research Performing Organisations’, Journal Of Social Medicine, 1/2025, pp. 112-123. https://publicera.kb.se/smt/article/view/24856/41119
  • Hearn, K., Aavik, K., Collinson, D.L., & Thym, A. (eds.) (2024). Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities And Organizations: Theories, Practices And Futures Of Organizing, London: Routledge.
  • Hearn, J. (2024). ‘Evaluating The Concept Of Political Masculinity/ies: A Simple Idea Or A Case Of Too Many Ideas?’ European Journal Of Politics And Gender, 7(3), pp. 326-344.  https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/ejpg/7/3/article-p326.xml
  • Hall, M., Lewis, R., & Hearn, J. (2024). ‘The Bounded Limitlessness Of Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: The Implications For Women And Gender-Sexual Relations’, Violence Against Women. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10778012241292293
  • Hall, M., Hearn, J., & Lewis, R. (2023). Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations, London: Routledge.
  • Ólafsdóttir, K., & Hearn, J. (2023). “How Did This Happen?”: Making Retrospective, Present and Prospective Sense Of Intimate Relationships Where Men Have Been Violent’, Feminist Encounters: A Journal Of Critical Studies In Culture And Politics, 7(1), 13. https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/Article/Detail/how-did-this-happen-making-retrospective-present-and-prospective-sense-of-intimate-relationships-12891. 
  • Hearn, J., Hall, M., Lewis, R., & Niemistö, C. (2023).  ‘The Spread Of Digital Intimate Partner Violence: Ethical Challenges For Business, Workplaces, Employers, And Management’, Journal Of Business Ethics, 187, pp. 695-711. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-023-05463-4
  • Hearn, J., Hall, M., & Lewis, R. (2023). ‘Men Talking, Writing, And Imaging Violence Against Women: (Dis)continuities Offline And Online’, Storyworlds: A Journal Of Narrative Studies, 13(1), pp. 23-48. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51303
  • Shefer, T, & Hearn, J. (2022). Knowledge, Power And Young Sexualities: A Transnational Feminist Engagement, London: Routledge.
  • Hearn, J., Strid, S., Humbert, A.L., Balkmar, D., & Delaunay, M. (2022). Social Politics: International Studies In Gender, State And Society, 29(2), pp. 682-705. https://academic.oup.com/sp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sp/jxaa022/5903067
  • Hall, M., Hearn, J., & Lewis, R. (2022). ‘‘Upskirting’, Homosociality, And Craftmanship: A Thematic Analysis Of Perpetrator And Viewer Interactions’, Violence Against Women,  28(2), pp. 532-550. doi: 10.1177/10778012211008981
  • Hearn, J., & Hall, M. (2022). ’From Physical Violence To Online Violation: Forms, Structures And Effects – A Comparison Of Physical ‘Domestic Violence’ And ‘Revenge Pornography’, Aggression And Violent Behavior, 67, 101779. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135917892200060X
  • Hearn, J. (2022). ‘The Place And Potential Of Crisis/Crises In Critical Studies On Men And Masculinities’, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Current Affairs And Applied Contemporary Thought, 2(3-4), pp. 563-585. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gd/12/3-4/article-p563.xml 
  • Hearn, J., Strid, S, Humbert, A.L., & Balkmar, D. (2022). ‘Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept For Social Politics, Social Analysis, And Social Theory’, Theory & Society, 51, pp. 565–594. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-022-09474-4
  • Hearn, J., & Parkin, W. (2021). Age At Work: Ambiguous Boundaries Of Organizations, Organizing And Ageing, London: Sage.
  • Hearn, J., Niemistö, C., & Viallon, M. (eds.) (2021). Memories And Reflections From The Gender Research Group: 21 Years Of Collaborative Action, Helsinki: Hansaprint/Hanken School Of Economics. https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/173009134/FR_79_Gender_Reseach_Group.pdf
  • Barber, R., Blake, V., Hearn, J., Jackson, D., Johnson, R., Luczynski, Z., & McEwan, D. (The Older Men’s Memory Work Group). (2016). Men’s Stories For A Change: Ageing Men Remember, Aging & Society, and Common Ground, Champaign, Ill.. 
  • Hearn, J. (2015). Men Of The World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times, Sage.

Research Associates

Qualifications: BA, MA, PhD
Email: swatiaroris@gmail.com

Research specialisation

Theatre, Performance, Visual Culture, Transnational feminisms, Postcolonial Studies

Selected publications

  • Arora, S (2024). ‘Disobedient Women And Theatre Historiography In India’, In The Methuen Drama Handbook To Gender And Theatre, edited by Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
  • Nina Lykke, Redi Koobak, Petra Bakos, Swati Arora and Kharnita Mohamed (eds.) (2023). Pluriversal Conversations On Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide From A Place, , London and New York: Routledge.
  • Swati Arora, Redi Koobak and Nina Lykke (2023). ‘Decolonisation, The University, And Transnational Solidarities’, in Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide From A Place, edited by in Nina Lykke et al. London and New York: Routledge, 2023
  • Arora, S (2022). 'Fugitive Aesthetics: Performing Refusal In Four Acts', In Injury And Intimacy: In The Wake Of #MeToo In India And South Africa, edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. Pp. 309-336.
  • Arora, S. (2021). 'A Manifesto To Decentre Theatre And Performance Studies', Studies in Theatre and Performance 41.1 (2021): 12-20
  • Arora, S. (2020). 'Walk In India And South Africa: Notes Towards A Decolonial And Transnational Feminist Politics', South African Theatre Journal 33.1, p. 14-33
  • Arora, S. (2019). 'Walking at Midnight: Women And Danger On Delhi's Streets', Journal of Public Pedagogies 4, p. 171-176.

 

Qualifications: BA LLB (UCT); BSocSci (Hons) (UCT); MA (Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands); PhD (Stellenbosch)
Email: pollyspd8@gmail.com

Research specialisation

I have a strong interest in gender, violence and power, and have focused on masculinities and violence, in prison, military and community settings. More recently, I have been immersed in critical surf studies, and surfing as a microcosm of broader societal issues, including (de)colonialism, gender justice, queer inclusion, climate change, and activism for social change.

Selected visiting scholar; scholar residences and teaching

March 2022 - March 2023: Postdoctoral fellowship; Learning Partnership for Gender Transformation (LP4GT) in Africa project; School of Public Health; UWC
January 2020 - December 2021: Postdoctoral fellowship; Andrew W. Mellon: New imaginaries for an intersectional feminist, queer project on gender and sexual justice; Women's and Gender Studies; UWC

Selected publications(last 10 years)

 

  • Graaff, K. (2024). Surfing As A Space For Activism And Change: What Could Surfing be(come)? In T. Shefer, V. Bozalek & N. Romano (Eds.), Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans: Political and pedagogical possibilities. Routledge.
  • Thompson, G. & Graaff, K. (2023). Thinking With/In Surfing: Podcasting As Public Pedagogy And Scholarship In/For The Global South. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 11(S12): 38-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v11iSI.
  • Graaff, K. (2021). The Implications Of A Narrow Understanding Of Gender-Based Violence. Feminist Encounters, 5(1): article 12. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/9749.
  • Graaff, K. (2021). Reassessing Masculinities-Focused Interventions: Room And Reasons For Improvement. Social and Health Sciences, 19(1), 103–123. https://doi.org/10.25159/2957-3645/10334.
  • Graaff, K. & Heinecken, L. (2017). Masculinities And Gender-Based Violence In South Africa: A Study Of A Masculinities-Focused Intervention Programme. Development Southern Africa, 34(5): 622-634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2017.1334537.

 

Qualifications: BA, BA (Hons), M.Phil (UCT), PhD (UWC)
Email: susangredley@gmail.com

Research specialisation

My research interests emerge from my experiences as a student and academic in diverse higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa. Current scholarship focuses on socially just, innovative and authentic ways of teaching, learning and engaging with students, and ways in which pedagogies can contribute to promoting personal and social transformation.

Selected publications

  • Gredley, S., February, B., Ntobela, T., van Heerden, C., van Wyk, A. & Clowes, L. (Accepted). Can I Do This? Doing Research As An Undergraduate Student In An Interdisciplinary Programme In UWC's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in M. K. Ralarala, S. Pillay, Z. Bock and R. H. Kaschula (Eds.) Unlocking The Chains Of Knowledge: Understanding The Challenges, Remaking Pedagogies And Curriculum Renewal. UWC Press / African Sun Media.
  • Mitchell, V., Gredley, S., & Carette, L. (2023). Participatory Relationships Matter: Doctoral Students Traversing the Academy. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(1), 232–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800422110159
  • Gredley, S., & Hodgkinson-Williams, C. A. (2022). Recognition Of Prior Learning As A Form Of Open Learning In Post-School Education And Training In South Africa: A Social Justice Perspective, in T. Mayisela, S. C. Govender & C. A. Hodgkinson-Williams (Eds.), Open Learning As A Means Of Advancing Social Justice: Cases In Post-School Education And Training In South Africa (pp. 16–43). African Minds. https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425_1
  • Gredley, S., & McMillan, J. (2022). ‘Opening Learning To Students In A South African University Through Innovative Institutional Fundraising Initiatives: A Social Justice View', in T. Mayisela, S. C. Govender & C. A. Hodgkinson-Williams (Eds.), Open Learning As A Means Of Advancing Social Justice: Cases In Post-School Education And Training In South Africa (pp. 44–69). African Minds. https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425_2
  • Gredley, S. (2020). “When It Rains [our house] Rains Too”: Exploring South African Students’ Narratives Of Maldistribution, in V. Bozalek, M. Zembylas and D. Hölscher (Eds.) Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity: Reframing social justice in South African higher education. Routledge, UK. pp. 94-110.
  • Gredley, S. (2015). Learning Through Experience: Making Sense Of Students’ Learning Through Service Learning. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29 (3), pp 243-261.

 

veronicaannmitchell@gmail.com

Research specialisation

Dr Veronica Mitchell developed a special interest in human rights education which led to her researching aspects of the medical undergraduate curriculum and the force it has on students' becoming. Drawing on Feminist New Materialism and Posthumanism, her work examines relationships that extend beyond human-centredness. Her post-qualitative inquiry has contributed innovative ways of doing research differently. She currently facilitates workshops related to the intersection of women’s health with their human rights in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Cape Town. Her publications include a research blog, authored websites, book chapters and journal papers. She also passionately promotes the production of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a sharing of knowledge for the public good (see OpenUCT).

Selected publications

  • Gordon, C., Mitchell, V., & Doyle, G. 2023. Crafting Medical Education Differently: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach To Enhance Deep Learning In Obstetrics And Gynaecology. SOTL in the South. 7(1), 83-100. https://journals.uj.ac.za/SOTL/index.php/sotls/article/view/297 
  • Motala, S., and Mitchell, V. (2023). Gestures For Engineering And Medical Education: Drawing On Our Barad encounter. In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism. (Eds.) K. Murris & V Bozalek. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032253831
  • Mitchell, V., Gredley, S., & Carette, L. (2022). Participatory Relationships Matter: Doctoral Students Traversing the Academy. Qualitative Inquiry. 29(1), 232-243. DOI:10.1177/10778004221101591
  • Mitchell, V. (2021). Un/thinking With Thread/s: Needling Through Boundaries Related To COVID-19 And Medical Training. Imaginations: Journal Of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. 12(2):in press
  • Van der Waal, R., Mitchell, V., van Nistelrooij, I., & Bozalek, V. (2021). Obstetric Violence As Students' Rite Of Passage: The Reproduction Of The Obstetric Subject And Its Racialized (M)other. Agenda. 17(51). DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2021.1958553
  • Bayat, A., & Mitchell, V, (2020). Affective Assemblages Matter In Socially Just Pedagogies, CriSTaL 8(1), 57-80. DOI: 10.14426/cristal.v8i1.219 http://www.cristal.ac.za/index.php/cristal/article/view/219/213
  • Bozalek V, Newfield D, Romano N, Carette, L., Naidu, K., Mitchell, V., & Noble, A. (2020). Touching Matters: Affective Entanglements in Coronatime. Qualitative Inquiry. DOI:10.1177/1077800420960167 https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960167
  • Gordon, C., & Mitchell, V. (2019). Risks And Rewards In Sexual And Gender Minority Teaching And Learning In A South African Health Sciences Medical Curriculum. Education as Change. Vol 23 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/3757 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/3757
  • Romano, N, Mitchell, & Bozalek, V. (2019). Why Walking The Common Is More Than A Walk In The Park. Journal of Public Pedagogies, https://doi.org/10.15209/
  • Mitchell, V (2019). Medical Students’ Response-ability To Unjust Practices In Obstetrics: A Relational Perspective. PhD Dissertation. https://etd.uwc.ac.za/handle/11394/6946
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