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NICOLI JEAN NATTRASS: Curriculum Vitae (January 2015)

Date of birth: 30 May 1961

Nationality: South African

Academic Qualifications

1981: B.A. (cum laude) StellenboschUniversity. Majors: Economics, Sociology and Political Philosophy.

1983: Honours Soc.Sci. (first class) University of Cape Town.

1984: M.A. (Social Science) University of Natal, Durban. Thesis entitled “Like Chalk and Cheese: An Analysis of Two KwaZulu Development Corporation Projects in Natal”. Supervisor: Jill Nattrass.

1985: M.Sc. (Development Economics) University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Short dissertation entitled “Bargaining with Mining Multinationals: The Case of Namibia”. Supervisor and tutor: Keith Griffin.

1991: D.Phil. (Economics) University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Thesis entitled “Wages, Profits and Apartheid”. Supervisor: Andrew Glyn. Examiners: Frances Stewart and John Sender.

Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards, etc

1980 - 1981: Merit Scholarships from StellenboschUniversity for results obtained in 1979 and 1980.

1982 - 1983: Human Sciences Research Council bursaries to do Honours and Masters.

1984: Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. This was extended for three years study.

1986: Institute for Research Development Doctoral Merit Scholarship. This was renewed for a second year.

1993: Southern African Research Fellowship to YaleUniversity (also a Visiting Fellow in the Economics Department at Yale).

1999: Visiting Fellow in the Economics Department and the Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale (January – June), and Oppenheimer fellow at OxfordUniversity (September – November).

2000: Alan Pifer Research Award (shared with Jeremy Seekings) for work on inequality and welfare in South Africa

2001: Distinguished Teachers Award (for my teaching of undergraduate macroeconomics).

2002: Visiting Professor in Economics at Yale.

2002: Elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSA)

2005: Oppenheimer Fellowship to Oxford (Michaelmas term, 2005). Gave a series of lectures on South Africa’s history and political economy.

2005: Winner of the University of Cape Town book award (for ‘The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004).

2006: Rice Family Fellow to YaleCollege (Spring semester, 2006).

2007: Visiting Professor in the MacMillanCenter for International and Area Studies at Yale.

2007 (November): Appointed to the Editorial Board of African Affairs.

2008: Winner of the 2008 Venter Award (best social science book in South Africa) for (for ‘The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004).

2008: Appointed to the World Bank/UNAIDS Economics Reference Group (to advise the UNAIDS Secretariat and the World Bank on economic aspects of AIDS).

2009: Visiting Professor in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale (fall semester)

2010: Visiting Professor in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale (fall semester).

2011: Editorial Advisory Board of the journal: The Sociology of Health and Illness.

2011: Visiting Professor in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale (fall semester).

2012: Visiting Professor in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale (fall semester).

2014: Winner of the 2014 UCT Book Prize for The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back

Academic Positions

1983 (March - December): Temporary Junior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Natal Pietermaritzburg.

1985/6 (September - June): Part-time Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Politics at the University College of Galway, Ireland. Tutor in the Department of Economics at the same institution.

1986/7 (October - May): Employed by the Higher Education Development Corporation of the Republic of Ireland to teach courses on development and South African politics in the Department of Ethics and Politics at the University College of Dublin and in the Department of Sociology and Politics at the University College of Galway.

1987 (September - December): Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Oxford Polytechnic (now known as Oxford Brooks University).

1988 (January - April): Researcher in the Development Studies Unit at the University of NatalDurban.

1988 (April) - 1991 (September): Researcher in the Research Unit for the Sociology of Development, University of Stellenbosch.

1991 (October) –2014 (June): School of Economics. Promoted to Associate Professor in July 1996, and to Full Professor in July 1999.

2001: Founding Director of the Centre for Social Science Research (UCT) – January 2005

2002: Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, in the Centre for Social Science Research (UCT) – present.

2014 (July) - present. Professor in the Centre for Social Science Research.

Articles in Refereed Academic Journals

1.Nattrass, N. 1987. “Street Trading in Transkei: A Struggle against Poverty, Persecution and Prosecution”, in World Development, vol.15, no.7: 861-875.

2.Nattrass, N. 1989. “Post-war Profitability in South Africa: A Critique of Regulation Analysis in South Africa”, in Transformation, no.9: 66-80

3.Nattrass, N. and J. Nattrass. 1990. “South Africa, the Homelands and Rural Development”, in Development Southern Africa, vol.7: 517-534.

4.Nattrass, N. 1991. “Controversies about Capitalism and Apartheid in South Africa: An Economic Perspective”, in Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.17, no.4, December: 654-677.

5.Nattrass, N. 1991. “Balancing Urban and Rural Needs in South Africa: Some Policy Issues”, in South Africa International, vol.21, no.3.

6.Nattrass, N. 1992. “Profitability: The Soft Underbelly of South African Regulation Analysis”, in Review of Radical Political Economics, vol.24, no.1: 31-50.

7.Nattrass, N. 1993. “Of Holy Cows and Functionalist Fallacies: A Critique of Wright et. al.’s ‘Reconstructing Marxism’” in South African Sociological Review, vol.5, no.2.

8.Nattrass, N. 1994. “South Africa: The Economic Restructuring Agenda. A Critique of the MERG Report”, in Third World Quarterly, vol.15, no.2: 219-225,

9.Nattrass, N. 1994. “Politics and Economics in ANC Economic Policy", in African Affairs, vol.93: 343-359.

10.Nattrass, N. 1994. “Economic Restructuring in South Africa: The Debate Continues”, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.20, no.4: 517-531.

11.Nattrass, N. 1995. “The Crisis in South African Gold Mining”, in World Development, vol.23, no.5: 857-868.

12.Nattrass, N. 1996. “Gambling on Investment: Competing Economic Strategies in South Africa”, in Transformation, December, vol 31: 25-42

13.Nattrass, N. 1997. “Collective Action Problems and the Role of South African Business in National and Regional Accords”, in South African Journal of Business Management, vol.28, no.3: 105-112.

14.Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings. 1997. “Citizenship and Welfare in South Africa: Deracialisation and Inequality in a Labour-Surplus Economy”, in Canadian Journal of African Studies, vo1. 31, no.3: 452-481

15.Nattrass, N. 1998. “From Fragmentation to Fragile Unity: Organisational Fault-lines in South African Business”, in South African Journal of Business Management, vol.29, no.1: 21-29.

16.Nattrass, N. 1998. “Globalisation and the South African Labour Market”, in Studies in Economics and Econometrics , vol.22, no.3.

17.Nattrass, N. 1999. “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Business and Apartheid: A Critical Evaluation”, in African Affairs, 98 (392): 373-391.

18.Nattrass, N. 1999. “Globalisation and Social Accords: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden, Australia and South Africa”, in Labour, Capital and Society, vol.32, no.2: 159-178.

19.Nattrass, N. 2000. “Inequality, Unemployment and Wage-setting Institutions in South Africa”, in Studies in Economics and Econometrics, vol.24, no.3: 129-142.

20.Nattrass, N. 2000. “The debate about Unemployment in the 1990s” in Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol.24, no.3: 73-90.

21.Nattrass, N. 2000. “Wage-setting strategies and Minimum Wages in Decentralised Regions: the Case of the Clothing Industry in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa” in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.24, no.4.

22.Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings. 2001. “A Divided Nation: Distribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa”, in Daedalus, vol. 130, no.1: 45-70.

23.Nattrass, N. 2001. “High Productivity Now: A Critique of South Africa’s Growth Strategy”, in Transformation, no.45: 1-24.

24.Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings. 2001. “Democracy and Distribution in Highly Unequal Economies: The Case of South Africa” in Journal of Modern African Studies, vol.39, no.3: 470-498.

25.Skordis, J. and N. Nattrass. 2002. “Paying to Waste Lives: The Cost-Effectiveness of Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in South Africa”, in Journal of Health Economics, vol.21 (5): 405-421.

26.Walker, R. and N. Nattrass. 2002. “A Critical Analysis of the Jubilee 2000 (SA) call for Cancelling South African Government Debt”, in Development Southern Africa, vol.19, no.4: 467-481.

27.Nattrass, N. 2002. “AIDS and Human Security in South Africa”, in Social Dynamics, vol.28, no.1: 1-19.

28.Nattrass, N. 2002. “Should Youth Unemployment be Targeted as Part of a Comprehensive Welfare Policy in South Africa?”, in Social Dynamics, vol.28, no.2: 207-236.

29.Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings. 2002. “Class, Distribution and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa”, in Transformation, no.50: 1-30.

30.Nattrass, N. 2003. “AIDS, Economic Growth and Distribution in South Africa” in South African Journal of Economics, vol.71, no.3: 428-54

31.Nattrass, N. 2004. “Unemployment and AIDS: The Social-Democratic Challenge for South Africa”, in Development Southern Africa, vol.21, no.1, March: 87-108.

32.Nattrass, N. and R. Walker. 2005. “Unemployment and Reservation Wages in Working-Class Cape Town”, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 73 (3): 498-509.

33.Nattrass, N. and N. Geffen. 2005. “The Impact of Reduced Drug Prices on the Cost-Effectiveness of HAART in South Africa”, in African Journal of AIDS Research, vol.4, no.1: 65-67.

34.Nattrass, N. 2005. “Who consults Sangomas in Khayelitsha?: An Exploratory Quantitative Analysis” in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2: 161-82.

35.Nattrass, N. 2005 “The Quest for Healing in South Africa’s Age of AIDS” in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2: 1-23.

36.Ashforth, A. and N. Nattrass. 2005. “Ambiguities of Culture and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa”, in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2: 285-303.

37.Nattrass N. 2006. Trading off Income and Health: AIDS and the Disability Grant in South Africa, in the Journal of Social Policy, 35 (1), January: 3-19.

38.Nattrass, N. 2006. “What determines Cross-Country Access to Antiretroviral Treatment?”, in Development Policy Review (May), vol.24, no.3: 321-337.

39.Nattrass, N. 2006. “South Africa’s ‘Rollout’ of Antiretroviral Treatment: A Critical Assessment”, in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), vol.43, no.5, December 15, 2006: 618-623.

40.Magruder, J. and N. Nattrass. 2006. ‘Exploring Attrition Bias: The Case of the Khayelitsha Panel Study (2000-2004)’, in South African Journal of Economics, vol.74 (4), December 2006: 769-781.

41.Nattrass, N. 2007. “Modelling the relationship between antiretroviral treatment and HIV prevention: Limitations of the Spectrum AIDS Impact Model in a changing policy environment” , in African Journal of AIDS Research, vol.6, no.2: 129-137.

42.Wessels, X, Nattrass, N. and U. Rivett. 2007. “Improving the Efficiency of Monitoring Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy at Primary Health-Care Level: A Case Study of the Introduction of Electronic Technologies in Gugulethu, South Africa.” in Development Southern Africa, vol.24, no.4: 607-621.

43.Nattrass, N. 2008. ‘AIDS and the Scientific Governance of Medicine in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, in African Affairs, 107 (427); 157-176.

44.Nattrass, N. 2008. ‘Gender and Access to Antiretrovirals in South Africa’, in Feminist Economics, vol.14, no.4: 19-36.

45.Nattrass, N. 2008. “Are Country Reputations for Good and Bad AIDS Leadership Deserved? An Exploratory Quantitative Analysis”, in Journal of Public Health, vol.30, no.4: 398-406.

46.Nattrass, N. 2008. “The (Political) Economics of Antiretroviral Treatment in Developing Countries, in Trends in Microbiology, vol.16, no.12: 574-578.

47.Nattrass, N. 2009. “Poverty, Sex and HIV”, in AIDS and Behaviour, 13: 833-40. DOI 10.1007s10461-009-9563-9. Published online 16 April. Published in print in October, in volume 13, no.5: 833-840.

48.Nattrass, N. 2010. “Still Crazy after all these Years: The Challenge of AIDS Denialism for Science”, in AIDS and Behaviour, vol.14, no.2: 248-251.

49.Venkataramani, A., Maughan-Brown, B., Nattrass, N. and J. Prah Ruger. 2010. “Social Grants, Welfare and the Incentive to Trade-off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa”, in AIDS and Behaviour, 14: 1393-1400. Published online, 23 December 2009. DOI 10.1007/s10461-009-9642-y.

50.Li, R., Jaspan, H., O’Brien, V., Rabie, H, Cotton, M.and N. Nattrass. 2010. Positive Future: A Qualitative Study on the Needs of Adolescents on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa, AIDS Care, vol.22, no.6: 751-758.

51.Nattrass, N. 2010. “Cultural obstacles to the rollout of antiretrovirals: An exploratory cross-country analysis,” in African Journal of AIDS Research, vol.9, no.3: 201-209.

52.Nattrass, N. 2011. “Defending the boundaries of Science: AIDS denialism, peer review and the Medical Hypotheses Saga.” Sociology of Health and Illness, vol.33, no.4: 507-521. Published on line as DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01312.x on 11 February.

53.Seekings, J. and N. Nattrass. 2011. “State-Business Relations and Pro-Poor Growth in South Africa” in Journal of International Development, vol.23, no.3: 338-357.

54.Nattrass, N. 2011. “The new growth path: Game changing vision or cop out?”, in The South African Journal of Science, vol.107, no.3/4: Art. #638, 8 pages. DOI: 10.4102/sajs.v107i3/4.638

55.Maughan-Brown, B., Venkataramani, A., Nattrass, N., Seekings, J. and A. Whiteside. 2011. ‘A cut above the rest: Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk Among Xhosa men in Cape Town, South Africa’, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (J.AIDS) 58,5 (Dec 2011): 499-505.

56.Grebe, E. And N. Nattrass. 2012. “AIDS conspiracy beliefs and unsafe sex in Cape Town”, AIDS and Behavior, vol.16, issue3: 761-773 (published online: 3 May 2011. DOI:10.1007/s10461-011-9958-2).

57.Nattrass, N., Maughan-Brown, B., Seekings, J. and A. Whiteside. 2012. ‘Poverty, sexual behaviour, gender and HIV infection among young black men and women in Cape Town, South Africa’, in African Journal of AIDS Research, 11(4): 307-317.

58.Nunn, A., Dickman, S., Nattrass, N., Cornwall, A. and S. Gruskin. 2012. ‘The impacts of AIDS movements on the policy responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis’. Global Public Health. vol.7, no.10: 1031-1044.

59.Nattrass, N. 2013. ‘Understanding the origins and prevalence of AIDS conspiracy beliefs in the United States and South Africa’. Sociology of Health and Illness, vol.35, no.1: 113-129.

60.Nattrass, N. 2013. US Foreign Aid and the African AIDS epidemic. Yale Journal of International Affairs, vol. 8 (1): 52-61. Available on:

61.Jury, C. and N. Nattrass. 2013. ‘Parental presence within households and the impact of antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, Cape Town’, in Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 14 (2): 70-74.

62.Nattrass, N. 2014. ‘A South African Variety of Capitalism?’. New Political Economy, vol.19, no.1: 56-78.

63.Nattrass, N. 2014. ‘Meeting the Challenge of Unemployment?’ in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 652 (1): 87-105.

64.Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings. 2014. ‘Job Destruction in Newcastle: Minimum Wage Setting and Low-Wage Employment in the South African Clothing Industry’, in Transformation, 84: 1-30.

65.Nattrass, N. 2014. ‘Millennium Development Goal 6: AIDS and the International Health Agenda’, in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, vol.15, number 2-3: 232-246.

66.Nattrass, N., 2014. ‘Deconstructing Profitability Under Apartheid: 1960-1989’, in Economic History of Developing Regions, published online 17/9/14: DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2014.955269

Books and Edited Collections

  1. Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), The Political Economy of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1990.
  1. Moll, P., Nattrass, N. and L. Loots (eds.), Redistribution: How Can it Work in South Africa?, David Philip, Cape Town, 1991.
  1. Nattrass, N., Profits and Wages: The South African Economic Challenge, Penguin Forum Series, Penguin Books South Africa, 1992.
  1. Nattrass, N., 1997. Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town. A second (thoroughly revised) edition was published in 2000.
  1. Nattrass, N, Wakeford J. and S. Muradzikwa. 2002. Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town. This was a third, extensively revised and extended version of the afore-mentioned book.
  1. Nattrass, N. 2004 The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (reprinted in 2006).
  1. Seekings, J. and N. Nattrass. 2005. Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa, Yale University Press, New Haven. The South African edition was brought out by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press in 2006.
  1. Nattrass, N. 2007. Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
  1. Nattrass, N. 2012. The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back (Columbia University Press, New York). Local edition: Wits University Press (2012).
  1. Nattrass, N.and V. Varma. 2014. Macroeconomics Simplified: An Introduction to Keynesian and Neo-Classical Macroeconomic Systems. Sage, New Delhi.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Books

  1. Nattrass, N., “The KwaNatal Indaba and the Politics of Promising Too Much”, in J. Brewer (ed.). 1988. Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight, London, Macmillan.
  1. Nattrass, N. 1990, “Economic Power and Profits in Post-war Manufacturing”, in Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), The Political Economy of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town.
  1. Nattrass, N., 1990. “The Small Black Enterprise Sector - A Brief Note of Caution”, in Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), The Political Economy of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town.
  1. Archer, S., Bromberger, N., Nattrass, N. and G. Oldham, “Unemployment and Labour Market Issues: A Beginners Guide”, in Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), 1990.The Political Economy of South Africa, OxfordUniversity Press, Cape Town.
  1. Terreblanche, S. and N. Nattrass, “A Periodization of the Political Economy from 1910, in Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), The Political Economy of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1990. (Reprinted in Webster, E., Alfred, L., Bethlehem, L., Joffe, A. and T. Selikow (eds.), 1994, Work and Industrialisation in South Africa: An Introductory Reader, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.
  1. Nattrass, N. and A. Roux, “Making Welfare Spending Work”, in Moll, P., Nattrass, N. and L. Loots (eds.), 1991.Redistribution: How Can it Work in South Africa?, David Philip, Cape Town,.
  1. Nattrass, N., “The ANC’s Economic Policy: A Critical Perspective”, in Schrire, R. (ed.), 1992 Wealth or Poverty? Critical Choices for South Africa, OxfordUniversity Press, Cape Town,.
  1. Orford, J. with Nattrass, N. and D. Kaplan, “Firm Size and Innovative Capability in the South African Electronics Industry: Shumpeterian Perspectives”, in J. Van Pletsen and J. Hurter (Eds.), Industrial Policy and Development in South Africa, IDC, Johannesburg, 1992. My name is appears here because I was a co-supervisor of J. Orford. The paper won first prize in the IDC essay competition for students and supervisors (1992).
  1. Sellars, C. and Nattrass, N., “Adopt or Die? Long Waves, Best Practice and the South African Automobile Industry”, in J. Van Pletsen and J. Hurter (Eds.), Industrial Policy and Development in South Africa, IDC, Johannesburg, 1992. This paper won second prize in 1992. My name is appears here because I supervised C. Sellars. The paper won second prize in the IDC essay competition for students and supervisors (1992).
  1. Nattrass, N., “Economic Aspects of the Construction of Apartheid”, in Bonner, P., Delius, P. and D. Posel (eds) 1993, Apartheid’s Genesis: 1935-1962, Ravan Press and Witwatersrand University Press.
  1. Ajam, T. and N. Nattrass, “Flexible Specialisation: What Relevance does it have for Small-scale Manufacturing in South Africa?”, in K. Kruger (Ed.) Industrial Policy and Development in South Africa, IDC, Johannesburg, 1993. The paper won third prize in the IDC essay competition for students and supervisors (1993). My name appears as an author because I supervised T. Ajam
  1. Nattrass, N., “Apartheid and Capitalism: Social Structure of Accumulation or Contradiction?”, in Kotz, D, McDonough and M. Reich (Eds.), 1994.Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis, Cambridge University Press.
  1. Nattrass, N., “South African Gold Mining: The 1980s and Beyond”, in Crush, J. and W. James, (eds.) 1995. Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa, IDASA/IDRC, Cape Town.
  1. Nattrass, N., “Economic Reconstruction and Development in South Africa”, in Rich, P. (ed.), 1996.Reaction and Renewal in South Africa, Macmillan, Basingstoke.
  1. Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings,“Constitutional and Legislative Provisions Governing Citizenship, Class and the Labour Relations Act”, in Steytler, N. (ed.), 1997 Democracy Human Rights, Democracy and Economic Development in Southern Africa, Lex Patria, Johannesburg.
  1. Kahn, B. and N.