Professor Emerita at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She established the DST-NRF SARChI Chair in Critical Diversity Studies, which she held for 10 years. Melissa was the Founding Director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and Founding Editor of the International Journal for Critical Diversity Studies. She has been featured as one of Routledge’s Sociology Super Authors (2013), and collaborates with the AGC in terms of teaching on programmes and publishing together.