Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors a h m e d c. baw a is DeputyViceChancellor for Research, Knowledge Production, and Partnerships at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal. He was recently Professor and Distinguished Lecturer ofPhysics at Hunter College, CUNY. Before that he worked as Higher Education program officer at the Ford Foundation. He has been a part of many policy processes and commissions in South Africa. Bawa holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Durham. n ic o clo ete is a full-time Director at the Centre for Higher Education Transformation. He served as Research Director for South Africa’s National Commission on Higher Education and as Coordinator ofthe Post-Secondary Education Report ofthe National Education Policy Investigation. He is widely published in the fields of Psychology, Sociology, and Education. stev en fr ie d m a n is a Senior Research Fellow and former Director at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. He is a social theorist whose main areas of research include democratization, grass­ roots organizing, and developmental policy. ad a m h a b ib is an Executive Director of the Human Sciences Research Council and a former Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University ofKwaZuluNatal . He has published on democratic transitions, political economy, institu­ tional transformation, higher education reform, and state-civil society relations. He was coeditor ofTransformation and Politikon. s h ir e e n h a ssim is Associate Professor in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her most recently published book is Women’s Organizations and Democracyin SouthAfrica: Contesting Authority(2005). A coedited volume, Genderand SocialPolicyina GlobalContext: UncoveringtheGenderedStructureoftheSocial (with Shahra Razavi), is forthcoming in 2006. d a n iel h erw itz is the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University ofMichigan. Prior to that, he was Chair ofthe Philosophy Department and Director ofthe Centre for Knowledge and Innovation at the University ofNatal in Durban. Based on his experiences in South Africa, he has written a book of essays on that country’s transition to democracy, RaceandReconciliation (2003). C h r is LANDSBERG is a political scientist and the Director o f the Centre o f Policy Studies in South Africa. He has written and lectured widely on South Africa’s foreign policy and the international rela­ tions o f South Africa and Africa, with a specific focus on dem ocratic govern­ ance and peace. He coedited From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Fmerging Security Challenges. t e d l e g g e t t has been researching crime and justice issues in South Africa for m ost o f the last decade, first in the School o f Development Studies at the University o f KwaZulu-Natal and then at the Institute for Security Studies. His interests include ethnographic work in crime and policing, and highly local­ ized crime analysis. He is the author o f Rainbow Vice: The Drugs and Sex Industries in the New South Africa (2001 ). g e r h a r d m a r e , Professor in Sociology, University o f KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, is the author o f articles and books on nation and on ethnicity in South Africa. He has published widely on forced popu­ lation removals under apartheid, identity and work, and other topics in political sociology. His present research concerns the construction, reproduction, m ainte­ nance, and subversion o f race thinking and social identity construction in a soci­ ety in transition. t e b o h o m o ja is Visiting Professor in Administration Leadership and Technology at New York University’s Steinhardt School o f Education. She has written articles on higher educa­ tion reform and is coauthor o f a forth­ com ing book on educational change in South Africa since the first dem o­ cratic elections. She was appointed Executive Director and Com m issioner to the National Com m ission on Higher Education by President Nelson Mandela. v i s h n u p a d a y a c h e e is a Senior Professor at the School o f Development Studies, University o f KwaZulu-Natal. His articles have appeared in such journals...