List of University of Cape Town faculty-The Daily Ledger

This list of University of Cape Town faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers. Faculty members who have become Institute Professors, or have earned other significant awards and made significant contributions are listed below.

Commerce

William Harold Hutt, professor of Commerce and originator of the term "Consumer Surplus". Francis Wilson, founded and was the director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU)

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Engineering & the Built Environment

Jo Noero, Director of the School of Architecture and Planning

Alphose Zingoni, professor of structural engineering and mechanic

George Ekama, Emeritus Professor of Water Quality Engineering. Order of Mapungubwe Silver (OMS) (2013) Alison Lewis, Director of Crystallisation and Precipitation Research Unit

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Health Sciences

Frances Ames, Neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist. She earned her MD degree in 1964 from UCT, the first woman to do so. Led medical ethics inquiry into death of Steve Biko who died in 1977. Awarded Star of Africa, SA’s highest civilian honour. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, head surgeon of the medical team who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Eric Crichton, one of the three original members of the medical faculty Tania Douglas, professor of biomedical engineering Bongani Mayosi (b. 1967 – d. 2018) cardiology professor, the Order of Mapungubwe (Silver), Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Valerie Mizrahi, Director of the University's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. TB researcher that received the Order of Mapungubwe (silver) in 2007 for her contributions to "biochemistry and molecular biology, including TB drug validation". Elmi Muller from the Department of Surgery performed the first kidney transplant from an HIV-positive donor to a HIV-positive recipient. Hamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard Timothy Noakes, controversial professor of exercise and sports science and author of several books on endurance sports and, recently, diet. Awarded the Order of Mapungubwe (silver) in 2007 for his contributions to the science of physical exercise. Keertan Dheda, professor of medicine.

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Humanities

Lydia Baumbach (1924–1991), classicist. David Benatar, philosopher and author. David H. M. Brooks (1950–1996), author of On living in an Unjust Society and The Unity of the Mind. Martin Hall, Professor of Historical Archaeology, deputy vice-chancellor (2002 to 2008) Mahmood Mamdani, inaugural holder of the AC Jordan chair of African studies (1996 to 1998). Hendrik W. (H.W.) van der Merwe, founder of the Centre for Intergroup Studies 1968, emeritus professor 1992. Charles Villa-Vicencio is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Monica Wilson, (1908 - 26 October 1982) was a South African anthropologist, professor of social anthropology.

Languages and Literatures

Breyten Breytenbach, visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities from January 2000, author André Brink, professor in the English Language and Literature Department, author J. M. Coetzee, emeritus Professor of General Literature, 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Harry Garuba (1958–2020), African Studies and English professor Joan Hambidge, professor at the School of Languages and Literature, author Etienne van Heerden, Hofmeyr Professor at the School of Languages and Literatures David Wardle, professor in the School of Languages and Literatures.

History

Eric A. Walker (1886–1976), British historian, King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at the University of Cambridge Nigel Worden, historian of slavery in South Africa and Cape Town.