Three New Members Appointed to the Academic Senate

Today we are delighted to present three new members of the Collegium's Academic Senate. The Academic Senate ensures scholarly excellence and a global outlook across all of the Collegium’s programmes, and provides advice on institutional matters. It serves to guarantee the highest scholarly standards and a sustained global commitment in all SCAS activities.

The new members are:

Premesh Lalu
NRF/British Academy SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture and Technics, Research Professor of History and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies & Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University

Locke Rowe (Adjunct Member)
Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

They took office on 1 September 2025.