Nene Ernest Khalema Author & Editor

R. Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was the Acting Dean and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2017-2019) and is a Research Fellow at the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in STI Policy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has taught at institutions in India, Canada and Sweden. He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Current Sociology and International Sociology Reviews. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen titles. Nene Ernest Khalema is Associate Professor and currently Dean and Head of School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. Before joining UKZN he was a professor in various Canadian universities. He served as Chief Research Scientist at the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa where his demographic work on urban livelihoods, social epidemiology, and human migration/mobilities, as well as critical sociological work on black/African Diaspora and Indigenous studies received national and international recognition.