Anne-Maria B. Makhulu | Scholars@Duke

Anne-Maria B. Makhulu
Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology

Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies and Core Faculty in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance and corporations, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa. Makhulu is co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010) and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home (2015). She is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), author of articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (115(1)) and special theme section guest editor for Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (36(2)). A new project, South Africa After the Rainbow (in preparation), examines the relationship between race and mobility in postapartheid South Africa and has been supported with an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Current Research Interests

South African campus social movements
Access to educational and other opportunities in South Africa
Class and race mobility in South Africa
The history of applied anthropology
Anthropologists in the public and private sectors

Office Hours

Fall 2018 Office Hours: Thursday 2:00PM – 4:00PM or by appointment
Location: Friedl Building (East Campus), Room 201E

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Initiatives 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Chicago 2003
- M.A., University of Chicago 1996
- B.A., Columbia University 1994
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2015
- Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2015
- Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2005 - 2009
- Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2005 - 2007
Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
- Faculty Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Program (2016-2022)
Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2017 - 2020
Recognition
In the News
- AUG 10, 2018 Arts at Duke
  
  Anne-Maria Makhulu: A Career in Anthropology That Was Shaped by Dance
- JAN 31, 2018 Duke Today
  
  What I'm Working On
- FEB 15, 2017
  
  Two Trinity Faculty Members Receive NEH Grants
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Africa (Continent)
  - South Africa (Country)
- Research
  - South Africa (Country)
- Teaching
Research
Selected Grants
- The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 - 2018
- An Inquiry into Market Speculation in Johannesburg and New York awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2011 - 2012
- Southern Africa's Place-on-the-Continent, Africa's Place-in-the-World awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2008 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Duke University Press, 2015.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M., B. A. Buggenhagen, and S. Jackson. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press, 2010.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. South Africa After the Rainbow, n.d.
- Academic Articles
  - Makhulu, A. M. “Gaining ground: Squatters and the right to the city,” January 1, 2017, 275–90.
  - Makhulu, A. M. “Afterword: Labour, insecurity and violence in South Africa.” Journal of Southern African Studies 42, no. 5 (September 2, 2016): 999–1003. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1238242.
    Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past, An Introduction.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 2 (2016): 256–62.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa: An Afterword.” Edited by M. Bolt and D. Rajak. Journal of Southern African Studies 42, no. 5 (2016): 999–1003.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Introduction.” Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 1 (2016): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3424720.
    Full Text
  - Makhulu, AM. "A brief history of the social wage: Welfare before and after racial fordism." South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 113-124. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, AMB. "Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 256-262. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - MAKHULU, A. N. N. E. -. M. A. R. I. A. “Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994 byDonald L. Donham.” American Ethnologist 39, no. 4 (November 2012): 843–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_7.x.
    Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, AM. "The conditions for after Work: Financialization and informalization in posttransition South Africa." Pmla 127, no. 4 (October 1, 2012): 782-799. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, AM. "The "dialectics of toil": Reflections on the politics of space after apartheid." Anthropological Quarterly 83, no. 3 (June 1, 2010): 551-580. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “The Search for Economic Sovereignty.” Edited by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, and Stephen Jackson, 2010, 240pages-240pages.
  - Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age.” Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse, 2009, 376pages-376pages.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler.” Anthropological Quarterly, no. Summer (n.d.).
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “The Time-Space of the Negative.” Anthropology Southern Africa, n.d.
- Book Sections
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the City.” In Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa, edited by T. Olaniyan. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing After Apartheid.” In The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (Essays in Honor of Jane I. Guyer), edited by W. Adebanwi. Witney, Oxfordshire: James Currey | Boydell & Brewer, 2017.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “The Search for Economic Sovereignty.” In Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities, edited by A. -. M. B. Makhulu, B. A. Buggenhagen, and S. Jackson, 28–47. University of California Press, 2010.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age.” In Ethnographies of Neoliberalism, edited by C. J. Greenhouse, 131–45. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” In Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age, edited by B. Weiss, 26:229–61. Brill Press, 2004.
  - Makhulu, A. -. M. “Debt, Finance, and Securitization: The Economics, Politics, and Policing of #FeesMustFall.” In Race, Property, Debt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, n.d.
  - Makhulu, A. B. “The Time-Space of the Negative.” In Anthropology Southern Africa, n.d.
- Other Articles
  - Allison, A., S. Amrute, F. Barchiesi, A. Bauer, M. Bhan, Catherine Fennell, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Marina Peterson, and D. Rajak. “Welfare.” Duke University Press, 2016.
    Open Access Copy
- Journal Issues
  - Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, A. -. M. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Edited by C. Counihan and A. -. M. Makhulu. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Duke University Press, 2016.
    Open Access Copy
  - Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, A. -. M. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Edited by C. Counihan and A. -. M. Makhulu. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Duke University Press, 2016.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M., A. Allison, S. Amrute, F. Barchiesi, A. Bauer, M. Bhan, C. Fennell, M. Peterson, and D. Rajak. “Welfare.” Edited by A. -. M. Makhulu. Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly. Duke University Press, 2016.
    Open Access Copy
  - Makhulu, A. -. M., A. Allison, S. Amrute, F. Barchiesi, A. Bauer, M. Bhan, C. Fennell, M. Peterson, and D. Rajak. “Welfare.” Edited by A. -. M. Makhulu. Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly. Duke University Press, 2016.
    Open Access Copy
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Advising & Mentoring
- Undergraduate Theses:
  
  Elise Dellinger, “‘They Have In Their Mind That Girls Cannot Make It’:
  An Analysis of Academic Achievement in Rural Kenya,” Spring 2009
  
  Amari el-Amin, “New Media and Notions of Beauty,” Spring 2016
  
  Mina Ezikpe, "Prison Abolition and Political Imagination," Spring 2017
  
  Nadine Gloss, “The Game of Giving Back: Rethinking Corporate Capitalism and the Trend of Corporate Social Responsibility,” Spring 2010
  
  Jacinta Green, “The Blushing Bride is Colored! Interracial Relationships between Black Women and White Men in the South: 1619 to the Present,” Spring 2008
  
  Asraiel Harewood, “And Justice for Some: Interrogating Racial Inequality and Pipelines to the Juvenile Justice System,” Spring 2015
  
  Osagie Ighile, “Killing Iraq: A look at Agency and Power in Relation to the US Mainstream Media,” withdrawn Spring 2009
  
  Mumbi Kanyogo, "From Silence to Movement: Exploring the Politics of Spectacle in Contemporary African Feminist Protest," Spring 2019
  
  Tobi Runsewe, “Nostalgia, Collective Memory, and Forgetting After Apartheid: Contemporary South Africa in Focus,” Spring 2015
  
  Brendane Tynes, “Redefining Black Love and Black Power: An Intersectional Analysis of Gender Violence and Political Activism,” Spring 2015
  
  Jessie Weingartner, “Belizean Political, Social, Economic, and Historical Factors and their Effects on Anglican Schools and their Populations,” Spring 2009
  
  Doctoral Dissertations:
  
  Anita Bateman, “Modern and Contemporary Photography of Ethiopia: Diaspora Art(ists) and Habesha Identity Formation” ongoing dissertation advising
  
  Layla Brown, “Vanguard Women: Revolutionary Consciousness Raising and Organization Building Among Black Women in the United States and Venezuela,” defended April 1, 2016
  
  Christopher Daley, “From the Backyard to the Ballpark: Making It in the Dominican Baseball Diaspora” ongoing dissertation advising
  
  Bryan Dougan, "Developing Mental Health: Global Health Science, Psychiatric Health Care Delivery, and Rapid Urbanization in Dar es Salaam," ongoing dissertation advising
  
  Jatin Dua, “Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection Along the East African Coast,” defended May 6, 2014
  
  Can Evren, “The History of Soccer at the Crossroads of Europe and Turkey,” ongoing dissertation advising
  
  Patrick Galbraith, “Bishōjo Games: The Politics of Relations with Fictional Characters in Contemporary Japan,” defended February 7, 2017
  
  Nmachika Nwokeabia, “The Poetics and Politics of 21st Century Nigerian Writing,” defended May 13, 2014 (external advisee at the University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  
  Matthew Sebastian, “Peace and War in Motion: Youth, Futurity, and Bureaucratic Care in Northern Uganda,” ongoing dissertation advising
  
  Samuel Shearer, “Producing Urban Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali” defended March 31, 2017
  
  Tamar Shirinian, “The Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia,” defended April 30, 2015
  
  Christina Tekie, “Beer Wars: An Account of Economic Life in Addis Ababa” ongoing dissertation advising
Available to mentor:
- Masters
- PhD
- Post-Doc
- Undergraduate
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Service to the Profession
Service to Duke

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

Academic Positions Outside Duke

In the News

Awards & Honors

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Teaching

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Journal Issues

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Available to mentor:

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession

Service to Duke