Garth Stevensis a Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research interests include foci on race, racism and related social asymmetries; critical violence studies; and historical/collective trauma and memory. He has published widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally, including co-editorships ofA race against time: Psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa(UNISA Press, 2006) andRace, memory and the apartheid archive: Towards a transformative psychosocial praxis(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Heis a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf),presentlyserves as the Deanofthe Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, and isthe currentPresident of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA).
Christopher C. Sonn, PhD, is Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.He is a fellow of the Institute of Health and Sport and teaches into the Applied Psychology Program in the College of Health and Biomedicine. His research is concerned with understanding and changing dynamics of oppression and resistance, examining structural violence such as racism, and its effects on social identities, intergroup relations and belonging. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor ofCreating Inclusive Knowledgesand co-author ofSocial Psychology and Everyday Life,and Associate Editor of theAmerican Journal of Community PsychologyandCommunity Psychology in Global Perspective.