Cherryl Walker | |
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Nationality | South African |
Alma mater | UCT (MA, 1978) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology Social anthropology |
Institutions | Stellenbosch University |
Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005,[1][2] and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.[3][4] She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.[2]
She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in KwaZulu–Natal from 1995 to 2000.[5]