Shireen hassim biography samples

South African political scientist

Shireen Hassim is a South African political scientist, historian, and scholar of gender studies and African studies. She is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she is also affiliated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research.

In 2019 she became a Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, beginning a seven-year term in the Institute for African Studies at Carleton University. Hassim was the first woman of colour full professor of political science in South Africa.^[1]

Career

Hassim holds a PhD from York University in Toronto.^[1]

In 2006, Hassim published the book Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa: Contesting authority, in which she uses archival research, interviews, and observational studies to analyse the role of women in the South African liberation movements of the 1980s and 1990s.^[2] Ha