Elaine R. Salo, a feminist scholar and public intellectual, trained in
anthropology at the University of Cape Town, completing her PhD at Emory
University. She held positions at the University of the Western Cape,
in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, from 1988 to 1999,
moving to the University of Cape Town’s African Gender Institute from
2000 to 2008, before leaving to become director of Women and Gender
Studies at the University of Pretoria from 2009 to 2013. She became an
Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at
the University of Delaware, USA, in 2014.
