Local Researchers

• Dr Brett Bowman is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests include violence prevention, Foucauldian theory and modes of application; the history of the social sciences; representations of childhood and nationalism; community and critical psychology and racism.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Noluthando H (Thandi) Buso was born at Mt Fletcher, former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. She graduated with an Honours degree from the University of Transkei and obtained her Masters Degree in Public & Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her current research interests include the impact of racism on the development.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Hugo Canham is the Carnegie Project Manager at the Transformation Office of the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a registered psychologist and he previously lectured in Organisational Psychology at the university's department of Psychology. Hugo was also the HIV & AIDS workplace programmes project manager at InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany, and at the South African Business Coalition for HIV & AIDS (SABCOHA). His current interest is in transformation, race and employment equity in the workplace.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Professor Norman Duncan holds a professorship in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he currently also serves as the Head of the School of Human and Community Development. He obtained his qualifications in Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and the Universite Paul Valerie (Montpellier III, France). His research and publications are primarily in the fields of racism and community psychology. He has co-edited a range of volumes, including 'Race', racism, knowledge production and psychology in South Africa (Nova Science Publications, 2001).
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. She has lectured at several universities in the United States, including Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Harvard University's Radcliffe College. Sheis the author of A Human Being Died that Night: A Story of Forgiveness and has edited several other volumes. Her current research interests include healing trauma in the aftermath of mass violence, the role of empathy in forgiveness and reconciliation and dialogue between adult children of Holocaust survivors and descendants of Nazi perpetrators in Germany.
  University of Cape Town, South Africa
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• Dr Kgamadi Kometsi is a registered clinical psychologist, having received his academic and clinical training at Vista, UCT a nd Wits universities. Over the last ten years he has taught courses in Psychology, both at UCT and Wits. He joined the Doctoral Fellows Programme at WISER where he completed a PhD project, with a dissertation on 'Coloured Subjectivities and Black Africanness'. His current research interests include race, racism and racial identities; masculinities; sexualities; HIV and AIDS; and the use of the psychodynamic frame to understand social issues. Currently, he holds the position of National Coordinator for Racism and Non-Discrimination at the South African Human Rights Commission, where he has been seconded by the School of Human and Community Development at Wits.
  South African Human Rights Commission
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• Professor Carol Long is an Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and a practicing clinical psychologist. Her recent publications include papers on psychoanalytic theory and practice, on HIV-positive motherhood and on the relationships between gender and race. She is interested in studies of identities, particularly marginalized identities, and in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Professor Sechaba MG Mahlomaholo has worked in 5 Higher Education institutions in South Africa to date. He considers himself as an emerging organic intellectual whose work is informed by the emancipatory agenda, located in a spectrum of theoretical positions ranging from Critical Theory, Postcoloniality, Feminist and Critical Race Theories. According to him, because all learners deserve better, education should thus foster self respect and respect for others. To achieve this objective he attempts to create empowering learning environments through analysis of all discourses in his research.
  North-West University
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• Nazeema Mohamed is Transformation Director at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits). Prior to her appointment at Wits she served as Transformation Manager at the University of Cape Town for  approximately five years. Her training and expertise is in higher education policy development with a focus on equity concerns. Mohamed has worked as a researcher, consultant and manager in higher education. She has worked at the University of the Western Cape, the American Council on Education and the Centre for Education Policy Development. She served as Parliamentary Liaison for the Africa Institute of South Africa, was a Director of Policy Development in Higher Education in the Department of Education, was appointed to the first National Youth Commission by former President Mandela and has served on several governmental committees. Prior to South Africa�s first democratic elections, she and other gender activists in the South African Youth Congress drafted proposals on gender equity and produced one of the first sexual harassment and rape policies to be discussed by a political youth formation in South Africa.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Warren Nebe is the Head of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand and the Director of Drama for Life, Africa. He is a theatre director, lecturer in performance studies and applied drama and theatre, and a HPCSA registered Drama Therapist. His current research interests include the development of an auto-ethnographic approach to identity, representation and memory through theatre, and how an integrated approach to drama as activism and therapy can foster capacity development in HIV/Aids education throughout Africa. Warren is currently directing "Closer", "Hayani", "ID Pending" and "Woza Joshua!"
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Professor Kopano Ratele is a Professor in the Institute of Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa, Kopano Ratele has a range of scholarly interests with specific expertise in the areas of men and masculinities, fatal injury, psychology and methodology. His list of published research is extensive, and includes There Was This Goat, with Antjie Krog and Nosisi Mpolweni, the edited collection Intergroup Relations: South African Perspectives, and the co-edited book From Boys to Men: Social Constructions of Masculinities in Cont emporary Society. Ratele is President Elect of the Psychological Society of South Africa and Editor-in-Chief of African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention.
  University of South Africa
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• Professor Tamara Shefer is director and professor of the Women's and Gender Studies Programme at the University of the Western Cape. Her research and publications are primarily in the areas of (hetero)sexual relationships, HIV/AIDS, gender and sexual identities, masculinities, gender and authorship, and feminist, critical psychology. She has been co-editor on four local academic texts, From Boys to Men (2007), The Gender of Psychology (2006), Discourses on difference, discourses on oppression (2002) and Contemporary issues in human development (1997).
  University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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• Professor Garth Stevens is an Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests include foci on 'race', racism and related social asymmetries; racism and knowledge production; critical psychology, ideology, power and discourse; violence and its prevention; and masculinity, gender and violence. He has published widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally, including a co-editorship of A 'race' against time: Psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa (UNISA Press, 2006).
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Professor Melissa Steyn is Director of Intercultural and Diversity Studies and an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She is author of Whiteness just isn't what is used to be: White identity in a changing South Africa (2001, SUNY Press,) which won the outstanding scholarship award in International and Intercultural Communication from the national Communication Association (USA) in 2005. In addition to her ongoing work on whiteness, she has co-edited The Prize and the Price (2009, HSRC), Performing Queer (2005, Kwela), Under Construction (2004, Heinemann) and Cultural Synergy in South Africa (1996, Knowledge Resources).
  University of Cape Town, South Africa
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• Réjane Williams has a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology (UCT, 2006). She is a partner in the consultancy embrace which focuses on issues of race, diversity and personal and organisational transformation in Post-Apartheid SA. She has worked across the private, public and NGO sectors and has designed and facilitated interventions to address challenges associated with racism and transformation.
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• Professor Eric Worby has been Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand since 2006. He earned his doctorate in Anthropology at McGill University, where he taught in the mid-1990s before spending a decade at Yale University with a joint appointment in Anthropology and in School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He also served for several semesters as Acting Director of the Program in Agrarian Studies and was a Senior Fellow at the Yale Centre for International and Area Studies. His principle research interests have been in the critique of development and modernity, agrarian change, the post-colonial state, ethnicity, race, sexuality and soccer. His most longstanding research site has been in northwest Zimbabwe, but he has also undertaken field research in Bangladesh, Botswana, Tanzania and South Africa. He recently co-edited (with Shireen Hassim and Tawana Kupe) Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and theReinvention of Difference in South Africa (Wits University Press, 2008).
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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• Dr LaKeasha Sullivan is a Lecturer and Clinical-Community Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She obtained her doctorate in clinical-community psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Her research interests include structural inequalities (and the intersection of race, class, gender, etc.), policy implementation, and community psychology. Her current research focus entails analyzing structural inequalities related to housing disparities.
  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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International Researchers

• Professor Christopher Sonn is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Victoria University. He teaches and researches in the areas of critical community psychology and qualitative research methodologies. He is interested in intergroup relations, specifically individual and community resilient and resistant responses to oppression. His research includes work examining immigration and settlement dynamics, Indigenous Australian negotiations of dominant group discourses, the role of community arts in empowerment, and 'whiteness' in race relations. He has coedited a book on Sense of Community and one on Psychology of Liberation Psychology, and he currently is an Associate Editor of the JCASP.
  Victoria University, Australia
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• Dr Derek Hook is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and a research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand. The over-arching focus of his research concerns the attempt to develop an 'analytics of power' sufficiently able to grapple with the unconscious and psychological dimensions of racism and ideological subjectivity. He is the author of Foucault, Psychology & the Analytics of Power (Palgrave, 2007), the editor of Critical Psychology (University of Cape Town Press, 2004). He one of the founding editors of the journal Subjectivity, and the coordinator of Psychoanalysis@LSE, a multi-disciplinary research group aiming to further the use of psychoanalysis as a means of social and political analysis.
  London School of Economics, UK
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• Professor Gill Straker is a Clinical Professor (Psychological Medicine University of Sydney) and a visiting Research Professor (Psychology University of Witwatersrand). She was a founding member of the Sanctuaries Counselling team providing psychological services for township activists. In collaboration with colleagues she established community based psychological services and a trauma clinic. She has published papers in continuous traumatic stress, child abuse, selfharm and racism.
  University of Sydney, Australia
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• Professor Leswin Laubscher obtained his academic qualifications from Northwestern University (USA) and the University of the Western Cape, in Bellville, South Africa. Currently he teaches at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, in a psychology department renowned for its human science approach to psychology. Broad research and teaching interests include wrestling with the crossing(s) or interlacing of identity and culture, and the work of JacquesDerrida and Emmanuel Levinas.
  Duquesne University, USA
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• Professor Patricia Mercader is currently a professor in social psychology at Lumière University in France. She teaches in the areas of social and clinical psychology, methodology, research, discourse analysis and gender. She has also been the head of a department for mature students and adult education from 1998 to 2003. Her research interests include gender identity, family and gendered violence, feminism and adult education.
  Centre de Recherche en Psychopathologie et Psychologie Clinique (CRPPC), Lumière University, France
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• Professor Gabeba Baderoon is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town, and has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, Sheffield University, the Nordic Africa Institute, the University of the Witwatersrand and Cornell. Baderoon writes on representations of Islam, race and sexuality in South Africa. She is also a poet, and the author of the collections The Dream in the Next Body, The Museum of Ordinary Life and A Hundred Silences.
  Pennsylvania State University
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• Dr Susan M. Glisson is the executive director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. She received a B.A.'s in religion and history, from Mercer University, an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. She specializes in the history of race and religion in the United States, especially in the black struggle for freedom. She is the co-author (with Sam Chaltain and Charles Haynes) of First Freedoms: A Documentary History of the First Amendment Rights in America (2006). She edited The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (2006). She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Glisson is a Salzburg Fellow and a community activist.
  University of Mississippi
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• Charles H. Tucker , a Cary, Mississippi, native, is Communications Specialist for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi and also serves as the director of communications for the Mississippi Truth Project. He has worked in fundraising and public relations and as a newspaper reporter and photographer. Most recently, Tucker served as public information officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on its mid-South Delta Initiative. He holds a degree in mass communication and journalism from Jackson State University.
  University of Mississippi
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