Former WISER postdocs

  1. Melanie Boehi's picture

    Melanie Boehi

    Melanie Boehi is a historian interested in multispecies history, plants, gardens, museums, the formation of archives, and journalism....

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    meboehi@gmail.com
  2. Grieve Chelwa's picture

    Grieve Chelwa

    Grieve Chelwa is an inaugural postdoctoral fellow in economics at the Centre for African Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Chelwa has wide-ranging research interests including research on the economics of education in Zambia, the economics of tobacco control in African countries and a recent...

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    grieve_chelwa@fas.harvard.edu
  3. Caio Simoes De Araujo's picture

    Caio Simoes De ...

    Caio Simões de Araújo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic
    Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
    Before joining WiSER, he held research positions at the Centre for Indian Studies in...

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    caio.simoesdearaujo@wits.ac.za

  4. Johannes Machinya

    Johannes Machinya is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow co-hosted by the African Studies Center (ASC) at the University of Michigan and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was also a Mellon Doctoral Fellow at the Wits History Workshop...

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    joemachinya@gmail.com
  5. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh's picture

    Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

    Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a Postdoctoral Fellow at WiSER. His first book, Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics (2017) won the City Press-Tafelberg Nonfiction Award. The book was accompanied by a rap album of the same name. In 2015, he was awarded an MPhil...

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    sizwe.mpofu-walsh@wits.ac.za
  6. Tinashe Mushakavanhu's picture

    Tinashe Mushakavanhu

    Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a writer, editor and scholar from Zimbabwe working at the intersection of art, design and technology. He holds a PhD in English...

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    tinsmush@gmail.com
  7. Elizabeth Nansubuga's picture

    Elizabeth Nansubuga

    Elizabeth Nansubuga is a Demographer, holds a PhD in Demography/ Population Studies & is faculty at Makerere University, Uganda. I have a keen interest in civil registration and vital statistics systems in Africa. As an IUSSP Population, Ethics & Human Rights fellow, I focus on the...

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    enansubuga@gmail.com