Vasu Reddy
Professor of Sociology, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
Vasu Reddy (he/him/his) is a Professor of Sociology, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests are genders, sexualities, poverty/inequalities, HIV/AIDS, decoloniality and public intellectuals from a social lens. Beyond articles some relevant book length publications are From Social Silence to Social Science: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality, HIV/AIDS and Gender in South Africa (lead editor with Theo Sandfort & Laetitia Rispel, HSRC Press, 2009); The Country We Want to Live In: Hate Crimes and Homophobia in the lives of black lesbian South Africans (co-authored with Nonhlanhla Mkhize, Jane Bennett & Relebohile Moletsane, 2010, HSRC Press); Care in Context: Transnational Gender Perspectives (lead editor with Stephan Meyer, Tammy Shefer & Thenjiwe Meyiwa, 2014; HSRC Press); and Boldly Queer: African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity (with Theo Sandfort, Fabienne Simenel & Kevin Mwachiro, HIVOS, 2015). More recent publications are Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship and Activism (co-edited with Zethu Matebeni & Surya Monro, 2018; Routledge); Queer Kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging (co-edited with Tracy Morison and Ingrid Lynch, UNISA Press & Routledge, in 2018) and State of the Nation: Poverty and Inequalities (co-edited with Crain Soudien and Ingrid Woolard, HSRC Press 2019). Forthcoming in 2020 is The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa (HSRC Press as lead editor) and in 2021 State of the Nation 2020: An ethical approach to addressing poverty and inequality (edited by Narnia Bohler-Muller, Crain Soudien & Vasu Reddy, HSRC Press).