Alex Dyzenhaus

You can start tracking them over the years as they pass the greats! (N.B. the greats somehow now includes Wiaan Mulder...)

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Great opportunity: A position in IR/Politics of China in a *fantastic* department @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social and wonderful city! 👇

As a lifelong spurs fan, I can say that as he comes under more pressure, Ange starts to look increasingly like a damp bit of lettuce at the bottom of a bag of mixed greens

For some reason predatory journals (and similar things) have latched on to book reviews that I've written. So they invite me to submit something based on... other people's work.

The Canadian Academic Mafia

Have you run into @aleshaporisky.bsky.social yet?

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social!

This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia.

Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it.

We only work in English, so language is not an issue.

Apply!

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

APCG Online Colloquium Call for Papers - Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 The APCG Online Colloquium is designed to increase opportunities for scholars of African politics to present and receive timely, constructive feedback on unpublished work. Colloquium sessions will be ...

Great forum to present some work and get some feedback if you have a paper on anything on African politics. Given its virtual format, it's a great place for junior scholars and scholars based on the continent to do an hour long workshop-style discussion of a paper!
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We are hiring in American Politics at Hamilton College this year! We're seeking a scholar of political institutions, broadly understood. Hamilton's been a wonderful place to work, & I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, department, life in upstate NY, etc. apply.interfolio.com/171832

Yeah these low numbers scream "attenuation bias from measurement error"

Second, we show how land reform does not represent an attack on Afrikaans identity. Afrikaans rural identity, at least occupationally, is shifting as the commercial farming world becomes more diverse. But it is very much shifting endogenously and only on the terms of pre-existing group members.

What does this mean for America's offer of asylum to Afrikaans farmers? First, we challenge the narrative that land reform harms Afrikaans farmers. The stories we outline show huge agency on the part of white farmers to selectively accept others and define the qualities that make a "good" farmer.

English and Afrikaans speaking farmers have distinct responses to new Black land reform farmers in South Africa based on past stereotypes and forms of discrimination as well as the rural political economy. These responses define contemporary rural relations and shape how different groups interact.

We started working on this before the international furore over South Africa's Expropriation Act, but this piece has many implications for our understanding of Afrikaner farmers and land. We trace complex negotiations within land reform in South Africa that vary within the white farming community.

Publication news! An article I wrote with @carolyneholmes.bsky.social holmes.bsky.social has just been published online in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social. We explore the differences in selective integration of Black land reform farmers by white farmers in South Africa.

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Thanks Erin! Maybe we'll overlap on family/research trips in SA!

Thanks Aditi!!

Quick update time: I'll be starting as a Lecturer (AP) in African Politics at the University of St Andrews in Jan 2026. If you're in Edinburgh/Fife/Scotland, let me know: I'm always looking for friends. I'm excited to keep up my work on land/SA with a supportive community and great students!

Thanks Haakon!

Thanks Aditi!

Cows grazing at the top of the Drakensberg mountain range

One of my main conclusions is that-perhaps unsurprisingly-the desire for financial profitability often gets in the way of full justice. But my work reveals a dynamic that is more complex than the idea that white farmers stand in opposition to or are oppressed by land reform.

A farm visit by a member of a commercial agricultural organization to help an emerging farmer out during the drought

And the stories from and actions of white farmers often flew in the face of the current adversarial rhetoric on farming/land in South Africa. Many were people who wanted to facilitate land reform and help Black farmers out of a desire for justice for past wrongs and because it made financial sense.

An emerging farmer consults with an employee from a major bank in the face of massive losses due to a drought

Most importantly, it involved speaking and engaging with a set of extraordinary people. There were Black farmers who were overcoming tremendous obstacles to create thriving farms and fulfil generational dreams to own and work the land that the apartheid state had taken from their people.

The stunning landscapes of the Drakensberg

Above the clouds on the Amphitheatre in the Drakensberg

The day before a big hike - me standing before the cloudy Amphitheatre

But it also involved visiting friends and family before heading to the fields, hiking in the beautiful Drakensberg mountains, watching test cricket, finding strange running routes in those small towns and going on quests to eat the best biltong (sorry Free State, KZN was more consistent).

Taking a photo out my car window in the rural Free State in between interviews

Logistically, writing this paper involved driving 7000+ km for dozens of interviews. I went to people's farms, often in remote locations, via potholed roads and past large guard dogs. I stayed in small towns in the midst of 11 hours/day of power cuts where the cell signal dropped out entirely.

The memorial to Nelson Mandela at the Capture Site Apartheid Museum in Howick, KwaZulu Natal. While the sculpture looks like a series of jagged pillars from a distance, as you approach it you can see that it forms a portrait of Mandela.

Nic's critiques–as usual–were right, so I started directly confronting legacies of segregation. I received the news about the R/R two hours after I heard Nic had been moved to palliative care. I am lucky to have a wonderful network of mentors, colleagues and friends who helped me finish the paper.

A Black Sash Map showing where the apartheid state displaced people in the forced removals in South Africa.

I'm finalizing revisions on a conditional accept today. In the paper I grapple with segregation and land reform in South Africa. My late advisor, Nic van de Walle, always asked of my work "where's the politics?". To some extent I assumed the politics of race was evident in land in South Africa.

The programme for ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ is out!

Speakers from 14 countries discussing Palestine, Rwanda, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Libya & Italy.
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