Ivan is a Professor of Sociology and the Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego. Ivan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986 and joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1990 after serving as a Lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and as a Visiting Professor at UCLA. His publications include Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa and Cultures of Violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South. He teaches courses on change in modern South Africa; political sociology; social movements; and environmental sociology. Ivan’s current research interests focus on climate change, societal resilience to climate-induced disasters and the politics of water management in southern Africa.