Lawrence Hamilton
Lawrence Hamilton is a political theorist and the SA-UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Cambridge, UK, which he has held since March 2016. He became a full professor at the age of 36 and he has been a full professor of political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand since 2014. Prior to that he was a full professor at the University of Johannesburg, and senior lecturer and associate professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In Johannesburg and Cambridge he teaches and researches on various topics in political theory, South African politics and the history of political and economic thought. He is the only political scientist ever to receive an A-rating from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).