Robert Morrell was born and lives in South Africa. He is an historian by training and currently works in Research Development in the Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town. Robert’s major research activity has concentrated on questions of gender in Africa with a specific focus on masculinities in Southern Africa. Among his books are From Boys to Gentlemen: Settler Masculinity in Colonial Natal (2001) and (with Debbie Epstein, Elaine Unterhalter, Deevia Bhana and Relebohile Moletsane) Towards Gender Equality (2009). He has edited Changing Men in Southern Africa (2001) and (with Lahoucine Ouzgane) African Masculinities (2005). A new area of his research is in the area of knowledge production. Together with Brenda Cooper, Robert edited Africa-Centred Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds (2014).
