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Prof Fred Hendricks is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Rhodes University and the editor of the African Sociological Review. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Uppsala in Sweden in 1990, has worked at the Universities of Cape Town, Western Cape and has been a visiting lecturer, scholar and researcher at the Universities of John Hopkins (USA) and Uppsala (Sweden). He has acted as external examiner for; inter alia, the following Universities, Natal, Fort Hare, Botswana, and Transkei. He has participated in a number of public task teams, most recently the Ministerial panel of Experts investigating the impact of ownership of land by foreigners on prospects for land reform in South Africa.

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Associate Professor Rose Boswell is the Head of Department for Anthropology. She is also the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

She has an MA in Anthropology from the University of Cape Town and a PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam. Her PhD focused on the situation of Creoles (the descendants of African/Malagasy slaves and Indian indentured labourers) living on the island of Mauritius. The Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (NWO/WOTRO) and The Council for the Development of Social and Economic Research in Africa (CODESRIA) financed this research. Since the PhD Rose has been researching heritage management in the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles, Mauritius and Zanzibar. She is fluent in French and the Indian Ocean Creole dialect. Her most recent research is on superdiversity in Cape Town (funded by the Max Planck Institute in Germany) and on racism discourse and practice in Mauritius (funded by the Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission). In 2009 Rose was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Medal. Her teaching topics include applied anthropology, nationalism, heritage, identity and ethnography.

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Karen is the Faculty Officer for the Humanities Faculty. After living in London for nearly 10 years Karen returned to Grahamstown and started working at Rhodes University in May 2005 as the Secretary for the School of Journalism and Media Studies. In July 2006 Karen took up the post of Office Administrator for the Faculty and since then has completed the Human Resource Development Division Certificate Course in Supervision and in 2007 enrolled onto the Management Development Programme and completed the Human Resource Management and Strategic Management modules. She hopes to complete the 2 final modules when they are offered again. In 2008 her post was upgraded. Karen is also co-ordinates the Fringe Fifty Reviews for CUE Newspaper during the National Arts Festival.