Amanda Gouws Biography 

Amanda Gouws is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the USA.  Her specialization is South African Politics and Gender Politics and Political Behavior.  Her co-authored book with James Gibson from Washington University St Louis, Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion (Cambridge University Press 2003) was awarded the Alexander George Book Award for best book in Political Psychology in 2003. In 2004 she received the Rector’s Award for Excellence in Research.  She has published widely on issues in South African Politics.

Presently her research focuses on women and citizenship, the National Gender Machinery and representation.  She is the editor of  (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa (UK: Ashgate and Cape Town: Juta, 2005).  She is a Board Member of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. In 2007 she was the Edith Keeger Wolf Disthinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, USA.