Sindiso Weeks

Sindiso Weeks is a social justice thinker and scholar activist with a specialization in public policy for marginalized groups, particularly indigenous populations, African communities, and women. She holds high qualifications in socio-legal studies, making her skilled as a human rights lawyer and legal, social, and cultural anthropologist. Sindiso's current research focuses on topics like access to justice, human security, social development, and conflict management in volatile, remote communities in South Africa under cooperative governance models.

Her previous research includes projects on women's inheritance, land rights, traditional governance, and conflicts between indigenous and state laws in South Africa. Sindiso utilizes methodologies such as ethnography, community-based participatory action research, discourse analysis, and comparative epistemology in her work. She has been recognized with awards and fellowships, including a high rating from the National Research Foundation in South Africa, and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She also contributes to mainstream media and co-manages a social/racial justice blog with her husband, Daniel Weeks, at sindisoanddan.wordpress.com.

Sindiso Weeks holds a DPhil in Law, an MSt in Legal Research from the University of Oxford, as well as an LLB in Law and a BA in Law, Philosophy, and Language from the University of Cape Town. She has held various positions in academia, including her current role as an Assistant Professor at UMass Boston and previous roles as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Resident Scholar at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town, a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Law and Society, and a Law Clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.