Harris Dousemetzis is a lecturer at the University of Sunderland and a tutor at Durham University, UK. He holds a PhD in politics from Durham University, and is the author of The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas (2018), winner of the African Studies Association UK's Fage and Oliver Prize, of the Report to the Minister of Justice, Advocate Tshililo Michael Masutha, in the Matter of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's Assassination (2018), which corrected the historical record regarding Verwoerd's assassination, and of The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights: The Revolution that Dared not Speak Its Name (2024).