Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005, and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016. She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology. She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in KwaZulu–Natal from 1995 to 2000. Education She earned a Masters from the University of Cape Town in 1978. Select publications Books Journal articles References External links South African sociologists South African women sociologists South African anthropologists South African women anthropologists Academic staff of Stellenbosch University South African social scientists University of Cape Town alumni