Maxi Schoeman

Prof Maxi Schoeman holds a PhD from the University of Wales (Aberystwyth). She joined
UP in 2000 as professor and head of the Department of Political Sciences and served as depute dean: postgraduate studies and research from 2016 until her retirement at the end of 2019. She has held research fellowships with Cambridge University (1995/96), the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (2001), the Dag
Hammarskjöld Foundation (2009) and the Nordic Africa Institute (2009). She was
awarded the 2014 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the University of Uppsala. She has presented guest lectures and seminars at amongst others, the universities of Copenhagen, Aalborg, Konstanz, Indiana, King's College (London) and Beijing. She serves on the editorial boards of several local and international journals in the field of international relations. She heads the Ocean Regions Programme in the Department of Political Sciences at UP.

Research focus:

South African foreign policy and African peace and security. Together with Dr ’Funmi Olonisakin (King’s College, London), she is responsible for the Faculty of Humanities’ research theme, ‘Peace and conflict’.