Project Participants

This project has been led by a team of researchers in the Department of Sociology at Brown University, including principal investigator Patrick Heller, Daniel Schensul, and Amy Kracker.

Research teams at the University of Cape Town, the University of KwaZulu Natal, and the University of the Witwatersrand have been essential in contributing to this project. These teams conducted and analyzed interviews with residents in selected neighborhoods across Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg regarding community racial, economic, political, and social change since the end of apartheid. Members of these teams also documented the spatial character of the neighborhoods and wrote the community reports, which you can access by clicking on the “Community Reports” link to the left.

The research team at the University of Cape Town was directed by Dr. Sophie Oldfield and Sian Butcher in the Department of Environmental and Geographic Sciences who managed research teams and conducted community interviews and analysis and wrote reports. Additionally a number of graduate students conducted interviews, analyzed findings, and wrote reports for selected communities across Cape Town. These include Junaid Francis, Saskia Greyling, Netsai Matshaka, Ncedo Mngqibisa, Noah Schermbrucker, and Jessica Thorn.

The research team at the University of KwaZulu Natal was directed by Dr. Richard Ballard in the School of Development Studies who managed research teams and conducted community interviews and analysis. Additionally a number of graduate students conducted interviews, analyzed findings, and wrote reports for selected communities across Durban. These include Kira Erwin, Sandile Mbatha, Menziwokuhle Mthethwa, Tasmi Quazi, Ndumiso Sidzatane, and Modestar Zuma.

The research team at the University of the Witwatersrand was directed by Dr. Michelle Williams in the Department of Sociology who managed research teams and conducted community interviews and analysis. The graduate students who conducted interviews, analyzed findings, and wrote reports for selected communities across Johannesburg include Andrew Bennie, Sian Byrne, Jacob Mati, and Tatenda Mukwedeya.

These research teams have been crucial in contributing to the findings of the research and we would like to thank them for their outstanding work. We would also like to thank those who agreed to be interviewed for this research and provided invaluable insights into post-apartheid transformation across South African cities.

Additionally we would like to thank a number of people in each city who played a crucial role in the conceptualization of this project and its subsequent stages, through identifying data, developing planning units, informing categorization systems of community mixing, participating in data analysis and generating results, as well as many hours of other kinds of support and discussion. Thanks specifically to Debra Roberts, Brian O'Leary, Doug Hindson, Graeme Gotz, Phil Harrison and Craig Haskins.

Youshe Li and Sarah Baker at Brown University have also been crucial in the development of this website.