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A Zimbabwe national, Stewart received a BS in agriculture from the University of Zimbabwe, an MS and MPS in horticulture and environmental management from Cornell University, and a graduate diploma in business administration at De Mont Fort University in the UK. Stewart served as academic director of SIT’s program in Botswana from 2001 through 2010, and has directed this program since 2010. In addition to his role as academic director, from 2007 to 2009, he was a member and later chair of the Program Affairs Committee on the SIT Study Abroad Governance Council.

He has worked as a research associate at the University of Zimbabwe and at Cornell University. His research efforts were focused on sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, watershed management, and geographic information systems. He has also taught courses for the Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe and served as a coordinator in the International Students and Scholars program office at Cornell University.

Monique is a professor of sociology in the Community Development Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is also a research associate of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labor relations, police organizational change, and security governance. She has published three books: Young Warriors: Youth Identity, Politics and Violence in South Africa; Transforming the Robocops: Changing Police in South Africa; and Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (edited with Anne-Marie Singh).

Dr. Hicks is a former senior commissioner with South Africa’s Commission on Gender Equality. She has more than two decades of experience working with South African civil society and educational institutions and is widely published in the areas of participatory democracy, gender issues, and issues around access to education for women in South Africa. She is currently an academic in the Law Faculty at UKZN.

Shola has been with SIT programs in various capacities since 1992. Prior to that, she worked in administrative capacities with nongovernmental groups, some of which were active in the anti-apartheid struggle.

Toni has a PhD in education from and is a senior lecturer at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) in the School of Education and Development. Her lectures and research address teaching for diversity, inclusion and social justice, the sociology of education, and educational psychology. She has worked extensively in rural areas across four provinces in South Africa as part of her involvement with the teacher development components of various interventions and pilot projects. She has been involved with an SIT rural community engagement initiative since 2008, planning and implementing the student training program for both SIT and UKZN students. As practicum and academic coordinator for the SIT summer education program, she works with students to better understand developmental dynamics in rural areas of South Africa.

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Dr. Buccus has an undergraduate degree in education, a master’s degree in social policy from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), and a PhD that straddled Radboud Nijemegen University in the Netherlands and the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. He is widely published in academic journals and book chapters and is the former editor of the journal Critical Dialogue. He is a columnist for South Africa’s most widely publication, The Daily Maverick, and is often called upon by television and radio stations to offer political analysis.

During apartheid, Dr. Buccus was active in student politics. In 2008, he was an Open Society Foundation Media Fellow and in 2009, he appeared on the prestigious Mail & Guardian list of South Africa’s 200 Leading Young South Africans. He worked as academic coordinator at Workers’ College, a progressive college for trade union members. He was involved in multiple international research projects and co-authored the National Framework on Public Participation for the South African government. During his time at the Centre for Public Participation, he led an initiative to bring policymaking spaces closer to ordinary people and led a project to assess participatory democracy in Namibia.

Courses Taught

Graduate Courses
South-South Relations in the Context of BRICS

Undergraduate Courses
Development, Transformation and Nation-Building

Select Publications

Buccus I. (in press). You can’t go to the army and expect to be a vice chancellor – they must become good scholars. South African Journal of Higher Education.

Buccus I. (2021). Rebuilding public participation after COVID-19: The South African case. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(4), 2720-2728.

Chen, H. E., Bhana, D., Anderson, B., & Buccus, I. (2019). Bruin ous Are the main ous: Memory and Masculinity in a South Durban Township. Journal of Southern African Studies, 46(10), 73-90.

Bhana, D. & Buccus I. (2016). Blue lagoon: race, class, space and the making of Indian masculinities. African Identities, 14(4), 321-331.

Select Presentations

Buccus, I (2016, Dec 1-3). South Africa at a crossroad: exploring scenarios and possible future directions (conference presentation). ASA 2016, Washington DC

Buccus, I (2017, Nov 16-19). Struggle solidarity -SA and Mozambique (conference presentation). ASA 2017, Chicago, Illinois

Buccus, I (2019, Nov 21-23). The Economic Freedom Fighters: Authoritarian or Democratic Contestant (conference presentation). ASA 2019, Boston, Massachusetts

Research Interests

Higher education and transformation in South Africa
South Asian women and their role in the military wing of the African National Congress (SA’s ruling party)

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Dr. McGladdery received his B.Proc from the University of Natal, his higher diploma in education (postgraduate) from the University of South Africa, and his Honours degree in African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Born in Zimbabwe, and having lived in Africa all his life, he has experienced the change from colonialism to democracy and is deeply invested in the subcontinent. His work experience includes teaching “street law” to homeless orphans, teaching high school English (first and second language), accounting and business economics, and managing a socio-economically disadvantaged school at Simon’s Town as deputy principal.

He has published on “Host-Student Interactions in Study Abroad” and “Teaching Racialization in Study Abroad” (presented at the International Education South Africa Conference). He is a member of the Nkomazi Municipality Conservation advisory committee, where he works on community participation in conservation of fauna and flora in the Marloth Park Conservancy and audits mining and prospecting applications to expose malfeasance in coal mining development in the area. He has been an active contributor to institutional governance, having served as chair of the SIT Academic Directors Assembly, the Labor Relations Committee, and as a member of the Faculty Senate. He worked with the SIT Cape Town program from 1995 – 2006, where he taught Arts and Social Change and Multiculturalism and Human Rights.

In Fall 2006 he moved to Durban to direct the Public Health program, where he taught Community Health and Social Justice. Although initially trained in Law, Zed’s interests and work experience have led him into competencies in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and academic disciplines from anthropology to epidemiology.

Courses Taught

Arts and Social Change in South Africa
Multiculturalism and Human Rights in South Africa
Approaches to Community Health in South Africa
Social Determinants of Health in South Africa
Research Methods and Ethics

Dr. Abid Siraj has been engaged in teaching, research, and program management in public health in India for the past 20 years. He has also been actively involved in rights to health advocacy work. His doctoral work focused on India’s trajectory in reproductive, sexual, and child health programs with special reference to family planning and population control from beneficiaries’ perspectives and perceptions. Besides his doctorate degree, he holds a master’s degree in social work from Central University of India-Aligarh Muslim University.

Dr. Siraj has worked with SIT since 2011, first as academic coordinator and later as the academic director of a public health program. Before joining SIT, he worked for a USAID-funded project to train the village heads of local self-governments to promote reproductive and child health in the villages of Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh in India. District and state government officials have praised his work as the manager of a community-based distribution project of family planning methods for achieving the family planning targets and implementing a choice-based contraceptives program with the help of community volunteers.

Dr. Abid was part of a team that did pioneering work in thethe ‘National Rural Health Missio, the largest public health program initiated by the government of India in 2005. His proposed initiative for an emergency helpline for safe delivery to ensure the timely shifting of pregnant mothers to the nearest hospital was adopted in various states.

Courses Taught

Graduate Courses
Health System and Policy

Undergraduate Courses
Globalization and Health
International Honors Program: Health and Community Program
Reproductive Epidemiology
Sexual Minorities and Right to Healthcare

Select Publications

Siraj, A., Vaidya. U., & Gaur, B. (September 2022). Changing Paradigms Of Population Control: A Competitive Analysis Of Rural-Urban Continuums Of India. Neuro Quantology. Volume 20(9). Page 7179-7188. doi: 10.48047/nq.2022.20.9.NQ44839.

Siraj, A. (2022, June 2005). Population Control: An Analysis of India’s Journey. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. International Journal of Social Science & Management Studies. Vol-8, No- 5. 2-15

Siraj, A., Vaidya. U., & Gaur, B. (2022). ICPD-1994 and London F2020 Has Changed India’s Trajectory of Family Planning Programs. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), vol. 11(12). pp 50-61. doi- 10.35629/7722

Select Presentations

Paper presented in Sodha Sikhar (Annual Inter-University National Research and Innovation Festival) organized by RNT University, Bhopal, on Changing Paradigms of Population Control: A Competitive Analysis of rural-urban continuums of India. Secured Silver Medal in social sciences category.

Research Interests

Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Health systems

Applications open Sept. 15

With undergraduates’ schedules in full swing for the new academic year, it’s not too soon to start thinking about how to make the most of summer 2019. Imagine snorkeling in one of the world’s top diving sites as you study marine ecology in Panama, building career skills with an internship at an NGO in Vietnam, exploring Madagascar’s extraordinary natural environment to learn about traditional medicine, or learning Arabic in Jordan or Morocco.

Those are just some of the many opportunities available through School for International Training (SIT). During summer 2019, SIT Study Abroad is offering 23 programs in 17 countries that will appeal to a wide range of majors and interests, including five skills-building internship opportunities.

Like all SIT Study Abroad programs, each summer program offers academic rigor and an immersive cultural experience within the framework of at least one critical global issue. Applications for these programs open September 15.

New to the SIT Student Abroad summer portfolio this year are:

Colombia: Building a Culture of Peace – Integrate peace studies with Colombia’s cultures through music, dance, and food from the program base in the vibrant, multicultural Caribbean Coast city of Cartagena, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Vietnam: Nongovernmental Organization Internship – Learn about development and the roles of nongovernmental organizations engaged in social change through this guided internship, which also includes lectures and site visits. Customize this program based on your areas of interest.

SIT summer programs, sorted according to themes, are:

Climate | Environment

Iceland: Renewable Energy, Technology, and Resource Economics

Indonesia: Biodiversity and Conservation in Bali and Borneo

Jordan: Engineering and Design for Sustainable Environments

Nepal: Geoscience in the Himalaya

Panama: Marine Ecology & Blue Carbon Conservation in the Pacific & Caribbean

Tanzania: Climate Change and Sustainability, Mount Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar

Development | Economy | Inequality

India: Agroecology and Food Security in the Himalaya

Panama: Community and Nongovernmental Organizations Internship

Vietnam: Nongovernmental Organization Internship