Prof Amanda Gouws is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch and holder of the SARChi Chair in Gender Politics. Her specialization is South African Politics, Gender Politics, and Political Behaviour. She is a Board Member of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. In 2004 she received the Rector's Award for Excellence in Research. She has published widely on issues in South African Politics such as the electoral system, women's representation and the National Gender Machinery for Women and sexual harassment. She is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. (UK: Ashgate and Cape Town: Juta, 2005. Professor Gouws also co-authored a book with James Gibson from Washington University St Louis, Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion. In 2007 she was the Edith Keeger Wolf Disthinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, USA.
