- Professor of Earth Politics and Director: Environmental Humanities South, University of Cape Town
Professor of Earth Politics and co-Founding Director of Environmental Humanities South research centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Principal Investigator for the Critical Zones Africa project funded by the Science for Africa Foundation (2023-2027).
Member of the Club of Rome. Awardee of a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of California at Santa Cruz; a Mandela Fellowship at Harvard University; a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, and a Cheney Fellowship at the University of Leeds' Global Food and Environment Institute.
Current research focusses on paradigm shift for justice-based environmental governance sciences in Southern and East Africa.
Experience
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–presentProfessor, University of Cape Town
Education
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1999University of Cape Town, PhD: Anthropology
Grants and Contracts
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2023Critical Zones Africa (CZA)
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- DELTAS Africa II -- Science For Africa Foundation
Professional Memberships
- American Geophysical Union
- African Studies Association of Africa
- Society for Ecological Economics
- Society for the Social Study of Science
- Club of Rome
