"Professor Lucien van der Walt is a prize-winning scholar, who has published in a wide range of local and international journals, newspapers and bulletins, as well as in reference works. His work has been translated into Czech, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, isiXhosa and isiZulu. Besides numerous chapters in peer-reviewed books, he has published in 'African Studies,' 'Anarchist Studies,' 'Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies,' 'Archiv fur die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit,' 'Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire,' 'Capital and Class,' 'Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,' 'Journal of Contemporary African Studies,' 'Labor History,' 'Labour Capital and Society,' 'Mundos del Trabalho,' 'Politikon,' 'Refractions,' 'Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies,' and 'Society in Transition.' He has presented papers at more than 100 events, serves on six editorial boards, and has published well over 120 popular articles, including in the 'South African Labour Bulletin,' 'Ndivhuwo,' the 'Sowetan,' etc., and has 4 books and 3 special journal issues. His recent focus has been on South Africa, but he has also done research in Zambia and Zimbabwe. He served as southern African editor for Blackwell's 'International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500 to the present' (2009). "

"Labour history, with particular reference to anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and post-colonial world, and questions of transnationality; The sociology of contemporary labour movements, with particular reference to trade unionism and labour struggles in southern Africa; Political economy, with particular reference to the neo-liberal restructuring of the state sector."