Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at WISER at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. For a decade, from 2013-2023 she Directed the Institute, where she built a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship, collaborative research and...

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at Wits University, based at WISER and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University. She was previously Professor of African Literature at Wits and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU....

Shireen Hassim is a Visiting Professor at WISER and spends time in residence at the Institute. She is a former Professor of Politics at Wits and was seconded to WISER for a period of three years from the Department of Political Studies....

Jonathan Klaaren is Professor of Law and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  He is appointed at the Law School and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). He teaches, researches, and writes in the areas of human rights,...

A former Rhodes scholar, Steinberg has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford University where he currently teaches.
Steinberg is a public intellectual of note, a multitalented writer whose insightful and engaging work covers a remarkably wide range of topics related to some of the...