Jeremy Seekings
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Jeremy Seekings | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 January 1962 |
| Occupation | Professor at the University of Cape Town |
| Spouse | Nicoli Nattrass |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Quiescence and the Transition to Confrontation in South African Townships, 1978–1984 (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology, political studies |
| Main interests | Inequality, social protection and poverty reduction, political parties |
| Notable works | The UDF: The United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983–1991 (2000) Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa (2005) |
Jeremy Seekings (born 3 January 1962) is a British-born academic who is professor of political studies and sociology at the University of Cape Town. He is the director of the university's Centre for Social Science Research.
Born on 3 January 1962 in London, England. After being educated at Leighton Park School he completed his bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Oxford and an honours degree in political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed his doctorate in politics at Oxford in 1990.[1] At Oxford, he met his wife, Nicoli Nattrass, who was a South African on a Rhodes Scholarship.[2]
He is professor of political studies and sociology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he has been director of the Centre for Social Science Research since 2012.[3] He is a member of the Afrobarometer advisory team[4] and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.[5] He is also a former director of UCT's Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa and was a longstanding visiting professor at the Yale MacMillan Center.[3][6] He is a member of the UCT Senate, in which capacity he was an outspoken critic of former vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng[7][8] and laid a formal bullying complaint against her in 2021.[9][10]
