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HSRC Medal for Social Sciences Nominees

Professor Rosabelle Boswell Professor Boswell is currently Professor of Anthropology and Executive Dean of Arts at the Nelson Mandela University. She is a multilingual scholar who has distinguished herself in the field of anthropology. Professor Boswell’s work looks at the intricacies of identity construction in the African diaspora in the southwest Indian Ocean region, and more recently South Africa.

Professor Hussein Solomon Professor Hussein Solomon is currently a senior Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of the Free State. His work includes conflict resolution in Africa, South African foreign policy, international relations theory, religious fundamentalism and population movements in the developing world.

Professor John James Williams Professor John James Williams is a senior Professor at the School of Government Faculty, Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. His areas of specialisation include, citizenship, development and democratic governance and social change, political economy of citizenship and democratic rights, community participation and development planning in local government, culture, communication and media studies and public policy analysis

Professor Shaheen Ashraf Kagee Professor Kagee is an international expert in the field of HIV and mental health with over 160 scholarly publications, mostly in international journals. His research area is Health Psychology and he has focused on the relationship between health and behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on public mental health and the behavioural aspects of HIV.

Professor Monique Michal Marks Professor Marks is currently a full professor at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) where she heads up the Urban Futures Centre (UFC) that is based in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment (FEBE). Professor Marks has a sustained record of publication in the social sciences. Initially trained as a social worker, she has a masters and doctoral degree in Sociology. She has published extensively, predominantly in high impact international journals.

Professor Julia Preece Julia Preece is Professor of adult education at the Durban University of Technology, Honorary Professor at the Universities of the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She has published extensively in the fields of adult education, lifelong learning and community engagement and is an associate member of the PASCAL International Observatory. Her most recent publication is titled: University community engagement and lifelong learning: the porous university (Palgrave Macmillan – in press).

Professor Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya Professor Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya is Executive Dean and Researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Durban University of Technology in South Africa. Professor Sibiya is an NRF rated researcher with a sustained record of academic outputs and contribution to the health sciences.

Professor Julia Jane Sloth-Nielsen Professor Sloth- Nielsen is an expert on children’s rights law in South Africa and in the subregion. She assisted in the formulation of the children’s rights clause in the final Constitution. Her current work includes publications on the child protection system and on surrogacy, and she has published the most recent definitive assessment of the child justice system in South Africa, as well as on corporal punishment. These (and other) issues go to the heart of children’s place in South African society.

Professor Michael James Faulds Chapman Michael Chapman is affiliated, as a Retired Professor, to the Durban University of Technology. He is also a Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the University of KwaZulu- Natal, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and a member of ASSAf. A graduate of the University of London, Natal, and UNISA, he began his academic career in 1978 at the University of South Africa and, in 1984, was appointed as Professor of English at the then University of Natal. He served as Head of Department and, for 10 years, as the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences. As an A-rated NRF researcher since 2003, he is the sole author of 5 books, he has compiled and edited 15 anthologies, and has published over 90 articles and chapters-in-books in accredited publications. His 500-page literary history, Southern African Literatures (1996; 2003), won the Bill Venter Award for academic writing and continues to be cited, both locally and internationally, as the landmark book on the literature of the southern African subcontinent. A recipient of the English Academy of Southern Africa Gold Medal, he is now the 2018 recipient of the HSRC Medal for the Social Sciences and Humanities.