Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Mixing Africa’s Disciplines workshop at Center for African Studies

Professor Kopano Ratele is the Director of the South African Medical Research Council Men, Injury and Violence Research Unit and Professor at the University of South Africa where he runs the Transdisciplinary African Psychologies Programme. His research, teaching, social-political activism, and community mobilization has focused on the men and masculinity, African psychology, violence, class, traditions, sexuality, fatherhood, and race.

He is currently a member of the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in South African Universities, former convener of the National Research Foundation’s Specialist Committee for Psychology Rating Panel, former president of the Psychological Society of South Africa, and former chairperson of Sonke Gender Justice. His recent research interests are in African-situated decolonizing psychology as well as masculinities, femininities at home, masculinities at university.

Please email Karen Coker karencoker@ufl.edu for Zoom information.