Jo-Ansie van Wyk

Professor Jo-Ansie van Wyk is Research Professor in International Politics at the University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa. Her current research focuses on nuclear diplomacy, politics and nuclear necropolitics. She is currently establishing the field of Critical Nuclear Humanities as an innovative and specialised sub-field in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has completed a D Phil (International Relations) on South Africa’s post-apartheid nuclear diplomacy, and has published on, amongst others, nuclear diplomacy; foreign policy; political leadership; African politics; space politics; and environmental and hydro-politics. She is Fulbright Alumna (University of Delaware, Newark, United States of America) and a Member of the South African Academy for Science and Art. She has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Johannesburg and Pretoria; and the South African National Intelligence Academy; the South African National Defence College; the South African National War College; and the South African Diplomatic Academy. She has completed consultancies for the World Bank, UNESCO, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the South African Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (Afcone) and Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI). From June 2010 until October 2014, she served on the South African Minister of Trade and Industry’s South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA). She is a recipient of inter alia, the University of South Africa Women Developing Researcher Award (2012), Academic Honorary Colours (University of Pretoria, 2013), the Bradlow Fellowship of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA, 2014), Unisa’s Leadership in Research Women Award (2014) and a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Fellowship (2024). Her most recent book, co-edited with Sven Botha, is Key Issues in African Diplomacy (Bristol University Press, 2024). See https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/key-issues-in-african-diplomacy