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Political Studies Department, University of Cape Town
5th Floor, Robert Leslie Social Science Building, Upper Campus

		Research interests
	Assoc. Prof Thiven Reddy Head of Department Convenor: Politics postgraduate programme Rm 5.31, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3388 thiven.reddy@uct.ac.za	Comparative politics; South African politics; regime transition and democratisation; political party systems and political parties; post colonial theory and identity politics
	Dr Zwelethu Jolobe Deputy Head of Department General Postgraduate Convenor Rm 5.34, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3382 zwelethu.jolobe@uct.ac.za	Comparative politics; international relations; African politics; political violence; revolutions; contemporary South African politics; democratisation
	Assoc. Professor John Akokpari Senior Lecturer Convenor: International Relations postgraduate programme Rm 5.29, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3385 john.akokpari@uct.ac.za	African politics; international relations; political economy; comparative politics
	Prof Robert Cameron Professor Rm 5.24, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3380 robert.cameron@uct.ac.za	Comparative local government politics & administration; public sector reform; public administration thought
	Prof Anthony Butler Professor Rm 5.22, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3384 anthony.butler@uct.ac.za	Politics & public policy in South Africa, including political funding, theories of the state, policy uncertainty, party systems, the politics of HIV/AIDS policy, and black economic empowerment in SA
	Dr Lwazi Lushaba Lecturer Rm 5.24.1, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-2050 lwazi.lushaba@uct.ac.za	Political philosophy; Subaltern Studies (decolonial thought, the politics of representation, and postcolonial theory); African politics; radical African/Black traditions of intellectual thought
	Dr Vinothan Naidoo Senior Lecturer Convenor: Public Policy & Administration postgraduate programme Rm 5.23, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-3383 vinothan.naidoo@uct.ac.za	Public administration, with a special interest in comparative public administration and development management.
	Ms Alecia Ndlovu Lecturer Rm 5.26, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-4748 alecia.ndlovu@uct.ac.za	Political economy of development, politics and governance in Africa, comparative politics, quantitative research methods.
	Dr Helen Scanlon Senior Lecturer (On Sabbatical) Convenor: Justice & Transformation postgraduate programme Rm 5.27, R Leslie bldg +27 21 650-5593 h.scanlon@uct.ac.za	Transitional justice in an African context; conflict resolution; peace-building; gender and conflict
	Dr Elias Phaahla Lecturer Rm 5.23, R Leslie bldg elias.phaahla@uct.ac.za	Comparing development and welfare paradigms of South Africa, Mauritius and Chile; emerging powers and the remaking of the global economic architecture.
	Gregory Maxaulane Lecturer Rm 5.66 R Leslie bldg gregory.maxaulane@uct.ac.za	Social and Political theory Politics in South Africa and the Black Atlantic World

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