People at WISER
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Melanie Boehi is a historian interested in multispecies history, plants, gardens, museums, the formation of archives, and journalism.... more |
meboehi@gmail.com |
(011) 717 4238 |
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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... more |
grieve_chelwa@fas.harvard.edu |
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Caio Simões de Araújo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic |
caio.simoesdearaujo@wits.ac.za |
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Georges Macaire Eyenga holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Paris Nanterre. His research focuses on technoscapes in Africa, based on case studies of telesurveillance, drones and biometrics. He is currently working on the digitisation of voting registers... more |
eyengamacaire@yahoo.fr |
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After completing her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley, Hilary Lynd will begin as a postdoctoral fellow at WiSER in 2024. She has published articles about the land deal that convinced Inkatha to join elections in 1994 and about ideas of race and Blackness in the Soviet... more |
hilary.lynd@berkeley.edu |
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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... more |
joemachinya@gmail.com |
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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... more |
sizwe.mpofu-walsh@wits.ac.za |
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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... more |
tinsmush@gmail.com |
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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... more |
enansubuga@gmail.com |
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Raymond Onuoha was until recently a Technology Policy Fellow at the Lagos Business School (LBS) Nigeria, where his research and teaching focused on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a... more |
raymondonuoha@yahoo.com |
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Joel Pearson is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at WISER. He has undertaken extensive research on the local state in rural South Africa. His PhD dissertation focused on the spatial, administrative and extractivist histories that have together shaped the ground of contemporary governance in the... more |
jdpearson1989@gmail.com |