Ari Sitas

Ari Sitas is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town and the Director of tje Ministerial Team for the Charter of the Humanities and Social Sciences; he is also a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and, a Guest Professor at the Albert-Ludvigs University of Freiburg.
He has joined UCT as a professor in May 2009 after 26 years at the University of Natal and later the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has been a senior fellow and research associate in a number of institutions: the University of California, Berkeley, Ruskin College and Oxford University- has been a past president of the South African Sociological Association, a Vice-President of the International Sociological Association and an Executive member of the African Sociological Association. He had completed his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand on the emergence of trade unions and social movements among black urban and migrant workers (1960s-1980s) under the supervision of Eddie and the late David Webster in 1984.  Sitas is also a writer, dramatist and poet and has been a leading intellectual and an activist in the Anti-Apartheid movement.