Staff

Area of involvement: AGI, Gender Studies

Director

Jane Bennett has disciplinary backgrounds in literature, linguistics, sociology and feminist theory, and has worked at the State University of New York, Barnard College, and since 1999, within the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in feminist theory, sexualities, pedagogies and violence and she has published many articles and book chapters in these areas. She is also interested in research which is allied to political activism, in different areas, within and beyond university spaces within the African continent.

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Dr. Helen Scanlon

SENIOR LECTURER and RESEARCHER

Helen Scanlon is a Senior Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics (Faculty of Humanities). She is also a Researcher in the African Gender Institute. She joined the AGI in March 2011. Prior to this she was the Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice’s (ICTJ) Gender Justice Program based in Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in South African history from the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London. Before joining ICTJ in 2007 Helen worked at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in both a teaching and research capacity.

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Yaliwe Clarke

Lecturer and Researcher

Yaliwe Clarke is a Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics (Faculty of Humanities). She is also a Researcher in the African Gender Institute. Prior to joining the AGI, she interacted with African women's rights activists and peace-builders/conflict resolution practitioners and gained extensive continental training experience in gender and peace-building. As a part-time lecturer at the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation Peace Centre in Kitwe, Zambia, Yaliwe developed a gender and conflict module that formed part of a diploma and certificate course on peace-building.

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Area of involvement: Gender Studies

Dr. Adelene Africa

Lecturer

Adelene Africa is a clinical psychologist who lectures on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Gender Studies. She convenes the first year undergraduate course and her teaching focuses on introducing students to foundational concepts integral to the study of gender. She also convenes one of the core courses at Honours level in which students are encouraged to critically engage and develop the theoretical ideas gained during their undergraduate studies. She also contributes to postgraduate supervision.

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Wardah Daniels

Academic Programme Administrator

Wardah Daniels is the Gender Studies Academic Programme Administrator in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics. She joined the AGI in September 1999. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree from the Faculty of Humanities. She has previously worked as an administrator at an organisation which advocates the importance of education for girls, Forum for African Women Educationalists - South Africa (FAWESA).

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Area of involvement: AGI

Gillian Mitchell Senior Office Manager Gillian Mitchell is the Senior Office Manager at the AGI. She joined the AGI June 2010. She holds an MBA from the UCT Graduate School of Business as well as a BA in English and Drama from UCT. She has broad and varied experience within the tertiary education sector and has held positions at, among others, UCT (Deputy Director of Development and Public Relations), the UCT Fund Inc. New York.(Director of Fundraising) and the Cape Peninusula University of Technology (Director of Advancement). She consults, writes and trains in advancement for civil society institutions and most recently also held the position of Philanthropy Programme Manager at Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement. View	Hilda Ferguson Project Administrator Hilda Ferguson has been with the African Gender Institute since January 2001. She previously worked in a position as a creditor's clerk for 14 years. She initially joined the African Gender Institute as an Admin Assistant and was later promoted to the post of Project Administator, responsible for project and finance administration. She is an active member of UCT's Transformation Committee. View	Celene Jansen-Fielies Academic Programme Assistant Celene Jansen-Fielies joined the AGI in July 2007. She has previously worked as a PA for the Head of Department at the Department of Medicine at Groote Schuur. She obtained a Management Diploma at Pentech. View
Selina L Mudavanhu Web Content Developer Selina Mudavanhu is a Web Content Developer at the African Gender Institute (AGI). She joined the AGI in February of 2009. Prior to joining the AGI, she worked for both print and broadcast media houses in Zimbabwe as a Reporter and Current Affairs Producer respectively. After that, she moved to the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung where she was responsible for Media and Gender Projects. She later worked for the Cape Town based Southern African Media and Gender Institute as the Coordinator of the Women's Media Watch Unit. View	Jennifer Radloff Web Content and Communications Manager Jenny recently re-joined the AGI and works part-time as the web content and communications manager. She also works for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), where she has been for the past 10 years, coordinating capacity building and the African regional network of the women's programme. View