Prof Sandra Klopper is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is responsible for, among others things, Teaching and Learning, Institutional Planning, Physical Infrastructure, Information & Communication Technology Services, and the University’s Library Services. She has an M.A. from the University of East Anglia and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she taught for several years before joining the University of Cape Town in 1989. She subsequently accepted an appointment at Stellenbosch University as head of Visual Arts in June 2001. She became Vice-Dean of Arts (Drama, Fine arts and Music) at Stellenbosch in January 2006, and accepted an additional appointment as acting head of the Music Department in mid-2006. Prior to her UCT appointment as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, she was the Dean of Humanities at the University of Pretoria from October 2008 to December 2011.

 

Sandra Klopper specialises in African Art History. Her publications include books on South African art, such as Amandebele, The Bantwane – Africa’s Unknown People and African Renaissance, as well as numerous chapters in books and articles in accredited journals. She has been involved in various exhibitions and was a chief curator for the exhibition Democracy X: marking the present, representing the past (2004-05) – which was chosen by the Royal Academy in 2004 as one of the 15 must-see international exhibitions. Her research has been supported by awards and grants from the Human Sciences Research Council, the National Research Foundation, and the Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme. Sandra received her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992 and is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town.