Dr. Jonathan D Jansen, the former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, lead several discussions with faculty and students and held a public lecture on social injustice while visiting Rutgers recently.

Jansen is the immediate past Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria and currently a Fulbright Scholar to Stanford University where he is completing a book titled "The Politics of Memory: How white South African students remember and enact the past."

He has written about his experiences about the struggle for social justice at this white Afrikaner university in "Black Dean", an article that appeared in the Harvard Educational Review (Fall 2005). His most recent books include "Diversity High" (with Saloshna Vandeyar), a story about how white working class schools desegregate (University Press of America, 2008) and "Equal Educational Opportunities?"--a book that compares racial desegregation in the post-Brown experience in the USA and the post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

He is a former high school teacher from South Africa and obtained his MS (Cornell University) and PhD (Stanford) in the United States.

Jansen's visit was sponsored by the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, the Graduate School of Education's South Africa Initiative (SAI) and Department of Educational Theory, Policy and Administration, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Center of New Brunswick.

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