Rupert Taylor

Rupert Taylor (born 1958), is a professor of political studies and former head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 1987 to 2013. He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in England and completed a BA degree in politics and government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics (1981) and a PhD in sociology at Kent, (1986). He was formerly a visiting research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York City, adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and a visiting research fellow in the School of Politics, Queen's University Belfast.

Publications include articles in ''African Affairs'', ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'', ''Peace and Change'', ''The Political Quarterly'', ''Race and Class'', ''The Round Table'', and ''Telos''. He was editor of ''Politikon'' and ''Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations''.

Rupert Taylor is a "B" rated National Research Foundation scholar. Provided by Wikipedia