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Thierry M. Luescher is a South African author and researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and affiliated professor at the University of the Free State. Early life[edit]Thierry Luescher was born in Zofingen, Switzerland, in 1971, grew up in Oberentfelden and Muhen, and moved to South Africa in 1995 to study African languages, history and politics at the University of Cape Town (B.A. 1999; PhD, 2009). Early politics[edit]Luescher's mother and father were both involved in local politics and members of the Social-Democratic Party of Switzerland. In 1989, Luescher became a member of the gay advocacy group HAZ in Zurich and gave interviews and made several appearances on Swiss television on the HIV/Aids pandemic then raging through Switzerland. He was a member of the first Youth Session of the Swiss parliament in 1991, as a representative of the national Initiative Lesbisch/Schwule Jugend Schweiz (ILSJS). In South Africa, he became a member of Abigail (the Cape Town Association of Bisexuals, Gays and Lesbians) in 1995 where he met a number of gay anti-apartheid activists, including Zaki Achmat who later founded the Treatment Action Campaign. Student politics at the University of Cape Town[edit]While studying at the University of Cape Town, Luescher first became a member of the South African Students Congress which deployed him to stand as candidate for the university's Students' Representative Council in 1999. He was SRC Vice-President from 1999 to 2000 and a member of the national executive committee of the South African Union of Students (then SAU-SRC) in 2001. Career[edit]He was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2012) and senior lecturer (2012-2014) in Higher Education Studies at the University of the Western Cape. In 2014, Luescher moved to the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein to take up the post of assistant director for institutional research (2014-2017) and complete a postgraduate diploma in higher education teaching and learning. In 2017, he became appointed as research director for higher education in the Human Sciences Research Council. Luescher has held additional academic appointments, including as extra-ordinary senior lecturer with the Department of Political Science, University of the Western Cape (2011-2015), and as affiliated associate professor with the School of Higher Education Studies, University of the Free State (2017 to present). He is a founder and trustee of the South Africa-based open access academic publisher African Minds; a founder and editor of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa (2013 to present) which is published with Stellenbosch University; an associate editor of the series African Higher Education Dynamics since 2015; and an international associate editor of the [https://www.ajol.info/index.php/majohe Makerere Journal of Higher Education] and the [https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal-college-student-development Journal of College Student Development.] Luescher has authored or edited more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and books on topics closely linked to the nexus of higher education and politics in Africa. Some of his main concerns include: the representation of students in university decision-making, student activism and student movements, university governance, higher education expansion and development in Africa, and the contribution of higher education to democracy and social justice in Africa. Luescher's contribution to the study of student politics in Africa has been recognized internationally and in South Africa. In 2018 he was awarded a researcher rating by the National Research Foundation in South Africa as "currently the most published author on student politics in Africa". Luescher is also considered an expert on the work of Philip Altbach, whose body of work on student activism he has synthesized in two book chapters. {{AFC submission|t||ts=20190207174444|u=MelikhayaMfuleli|ns=118|demo=}} References |
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