People at WISER
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Maxim is Reader (Associate Professor) in Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a Research Associate at WISER. He is an anthropologist working largely on questions of economy in southern Africa – particularly labour, migration, borders, development, the... more |
maxim.bolt@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
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Sharad is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Berkeley. His career has spanned geography, history and anthropology, from 'Anthrohistory' at the University of Michigan to geography at LSE, to, most recently (2013-16), CISA and Anthropology at Wits. Sharad is interested... more |
chari@berkeley.edu |
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Darja Djordjevic received her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University, MD from Harvard Medical School, and Master 2 in Social Sciences from EHESS/ ENS Paris. She is currently a Resident Physician in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and working on a book manuscript examining the... more |
darja@post.harvard.edu |
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Dr. Euclides Gonçalves is a social anthropologist and director at Kaleidoscopio – Research in Public Policy and Culture. His research focuses on governance, bureaucratic processes and political rituals. His latest work looked at how in the context of the justice sector reform... more |
e.goncalves@kaleidoscopio.co.mz |
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Zoe Groves is a Lecturer in Modern Global, Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Leicester and a Research Associate at WISER. Her research examines the social and cultural history of southern Africa, especially the themes of migration, urbanisation and popular culture in... more |
zrg3@le.ac.uk |
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Gabrielle Hecht ponders waste, world-ending, and toxic things. Her latest book, ... more |
ghecht@stanford.edu |
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Christa Kuljian is a free-lance writer based in Johannesburg. She writes and teaches narrative non-fiction and focuses on writing about social justice issues by telling the true stories of real people. Christa is... more |
christak@alignafrica.com |
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Terry Kurgan is an artist and writer based in Johannesburg. Her work frequently explores the medium of photography, in particular the complexity of the photographic interaction and the way photography acts in the world. She explores this through a diverse body of ... more |
kurganterry@gmail.com |
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Charne Lavery is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and co-director, with Isabel Hofmeyr, of Oceanic Humanities for... more |
Charne.Lavery@up.ac.za |
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Noah Tamarkin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, is a cultural anthropologist of race, citizenship, and genomics with interdisciplinary commitments to Science and Technology Studies, African Studies, and Jewish Studies. His research... more |
ntamarkin@cornell.edu |
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Associate Professor Asli Telli holds a PhD in media and communications studies from a dual American and Swiss programme, where her dissertation focused on the changing nature of contemporary cities, urban spaces and digital spheres; published into a book, entitled, "The Infinite City:... more |
telli.asli@gmail.com |
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Makhosazana Xaba is an anthologist, essayist, short story writer and poet. She has three collections of poetry, these hands (2005 and 2017) Tongues of their Mothers (2008) and The Alkalinity of Bottled Water (Forthcoming in 2019 with Botsotso... more |
khosi.xaba@wits.ac.za |