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Alumni of our postgraduate programmes have gone on to a range of professional activities. Here is a sample:

Honours Alumni

Jeremy Cronin (1971)
Masters from the Sorbonne, 1973.
Currently Member of Parliament, South Africa (since 1999). Chair, Transport Portfolio Committee. 

Mark Stranex (1976)
LLB from UCT, 1984.
Currently an Advocate.

Mashuq Ally (1977)
MA from University of Durban-Westville 1981; PhD from University of Fort Hare 1992.
Currently Associate Professor in Philosophy at UNISA.

Jeff Cohen (1980)
HDE from UCT, 1984; MA and MEd from Columbia University, 1986. 
Currently Head of Middle School, Moriah College, Sydney, Australia.

Gillian Brock (1987)
PhD from Duke University, 1993
Currently Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Joseph Whitaker (2002)
Currently candidate attorney and LLB student (UNISA)

Gabriel Cross (2003)
MSc from Edinburgh University, 2004; LLB, UCT, 2007. 
Currently candidate attorney, Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc. in Johannesburg.

Jane Davidson (2003)
MSc in Global Politics from Birkbeck, University of London, 2007. 
Currently a full time mum.

Andrew Fisher (2006)
Currently studying postgraduate law at UCT. He returned from teaching Junior High School English in Tsuruga, Japan, having learned to speak Japanese. 

Anthony Cawood (2008)
Currently completing a Masters in Curriculum Studies at UCT funded by teaching episodes in the East. 

Frances Maughan-Brown (2008)
Currently working on her PhD in Continental Philosophy at Boston College, USA.

Paul Smit (2008)
Currently working as an e-Learning developer in Cape Town.

Anna Hartford (2008)
Currently working on her MA at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Jessica Blignaut (2008)
Currently studying an LLB at UCT.

Lydia du Bois (2008)
Currently a PhD student in the Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Julian Jonker (2009)
Currently a PhD student in the Philosophy Department, University of California, Berkeley.

Douglas Ainslie (2009)
Currently studying postgraduate law at UCT.

Meghan Finn (2010)
Currently studying postgraduate law at UCT.

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (2010)
Has recently established a not for profit organisation to advocate for law reform to end prostitution and sex trafficking.

Masters Alumni

Bernard Holiday (1973)
(Thesis title: Privacy and Sensation in the later Philosophy of Wittgenstein)
PGCE from Leeds University, 1977.
Junior Lecturer in Philosophy, UCT, 1972. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Natal, 1973-4.
Subsequently a secondary school teacher and Head of the English Department at St George’s College, Harare, then Downside School, Somerset (UK) and finally at Sherborne School, Dorset (UK).

David Theo Goldberg (1978)
PhD from City University of New York
Currently Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine. 

Francis Williamson (1988)
Currently Lecturer in Philosophy, Rhodes University.

Colin Lumb (1997)
Currently farming with his wife, Bronwyn (and their sons, Cole and Berkeley) near Calitzdorp. Their farm has a guesthouse, “The Old School House”, details of which can be found here: http://www.budget-getaways.co.za/ 

Ruth Saliba (2003)
Currently PhD student, University of Malta.

Steven Kuo (2003)
Currently PhD student, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews. 

Monique Whitaker (2006)
Currently in the Philosophy PhD programme at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Main areas of interest are in the philosophy of language, in reference, meaning and pragmatics; and in the philosophy of mind, in belief attribution and consciousness.

Dean Chapman (2006)
Currently a PhD student, New York University. 

Ryan Nefdt (2010)
Currently studying an MSc in Logic and Linguistics at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

PhD Alumni

Simon Beck (1984)
Currently Professor of Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg).

Graham Williams (1992)
Currently Senior Research Officer (South Asia), Research Analysts, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK. 

Patrick Giddy (1994)
Currently Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban).

Karori Mbugua (2003)
Currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr Robert Segall (2009)
BSc MSc Melbourne, PhD Cambridge, BA(Hons) MA Cape Town, PhD Cape Town
 

We are interested in hearing from other alumni, who are encouraged to contact us.

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