Prof. Theodore Petrus is an associate professor of anthropology and is also an academic and business coach. He specialises in research on gang culture and gang violence, witchcraft-related crime and the occult, African demonology and spirit possession, and coloured identity dynamics. He does academic success coaching for master’s and PhD candidates—specifically in social sciences and the humanities; academic career coaching for junior and senior academic staff in social sciences and the humanities; and executive and management coaching for university executive leadership and managers.