Ruth Hall (born March 19, 1973) is a professor at PLAAS (the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) at the
University of the Western Cape, which she joined in 2002.
A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty.
Education
Hall holds a
BSocSc from
Cape Town University
The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
in Political Studies.
She proceeded to the UK where she obtained a
MPhil
The Master of Philosophy (MPhil; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. In the United States, an MPhil typically includes a taught portion and a significant research portion, during which a thesis project is conducted under supervision. An MPhil m ...
in Development Studies and DPhil in
Politics both from
Oxford University in 1998 and 2011 respectively.
Select publications
Edited books
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Journal articles
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References
External links
Faculty websiteRuth Hall
on Google Scholar
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on Twitter
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on The Conversation
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on Academia
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on ResearchGate
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Living people
1973 births
University of Cape Town alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academic staff of the University of the Western Cape
South African political scientists
Women political scientists