People at WISER

WiSER Admin

Maxim Bolt

Keith Breckenridge

Sharad Chari

Adila Deshmukh

Najibha Deshmukh

Shireen Hassim

Gabrielle Hecht

Isabel Hofmeyr

Caroline King

Jonathan Klaaren

Hannah Krienke

Christa Kuljian

Terry Kurgan

Hilary Lynd

Achille Mbembe

cole meintjies

Youssef Mnaili

Hlonipha Mokoena

Fatima Moolla

Sarah Nuttall

Babatunde Okunoye

Oscar Ortega

Laura Phillips

Gabriella Razzano

Richard Rottenburg

Erin Ryan

Felwyn Sarr

Jonny Steinberg

Noah Tamarkin

Post-Doctorate Fellow		Melanie Boehi	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
Post-Doctoral Fellow		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... more	grieve_chelwa@fas.harvard.edu
		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... more	caio.simoesdearaujo@wits.ac.za
Research Associate		Charne Lavery	I am an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, and co-director of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project (www.... more	Charne.Lavery@up.ac.za
		Hilary Lynd	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
		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... more	joemachinya@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow		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... more	sizwe.mpofu-walsh@wits.ac.za
		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... more	tinsmush@gmail.com
		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... more	enansubuga@gmail.com
Post-Doctoral Fellow		Raymond Onuoha	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
Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Fellow		Oscar Ortega	Oscar Ortega Montero (Ph.D., University of Barcelona) is the Oppenheimer Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Nuttall. His research interests include African Medical Humanities, Aging Studies, Care Ethics... more	oscar.ortega@wits.ac.za	17