Overview
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).
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Office Hours: By Appointment
Location: Friedl Building (East Campus), Room 201E | Zoom
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Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022 Anthropology continues to grapple with pervasive racism and sexism. Although we have made strides to distance ourselves from our colonial roots, our field remains dominated by white men. More pointedly, despite the diversity of our discipline, peop ... Full text CiteCiting Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition
Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022 This essay addresses the tension between Northern Hemispheric intellectual assumptions and anthropology’s ostensibly critical stance within that intellectual tradition, one. Two, extending beyond the contradictions of the discipline’s origins in co ... Full text CiteTrump, Zuma, Brexit: anti-Black racism and the truth of the world
Journal Article Safundi · January 1, 2020 “Trump, Zuma, Brexit” aims to articulate a new theory of the “world historical” reversing the relationship of north and south–of “universal knowledge” and “raw fact”–instead establishing a theoretical ground from the southern hemisphere and toward the nort ... Full text Open Access CiteRecent Grants
Gridding Solar: Growth Futures after Fossil Fuels in Bangladesh
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2018An Inquiry into Market Speculation in Johannesburg and New York
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2011 - 2012View All Grants
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CV In the Media | This Will Be on the Midterm...Why so many colleges are teaching "The Wire" Interview | Left of Black (S2:E5): Dr. Makhulu Discusses Her Course on "The Wire" Interview | Rethinking Global Cities: Johannesburg and Cape Town Panel Discussion | "I woke up like this": Desire & Respectability in ShondaLand #12 - "Wealth Gap: Wider Than Gender," #IAlsoWantMoney Podcast Meet The Professors –Anne-Maria Makhulu Interview | Left of Black (S6:E15): Squatting for Freedom + #FeesMustFall in South Africa In the Media | Professor Turns to HBO's "The Wire" for Course In the Media | BLACKBOARD | CURRICULUM; Deconstructing "The Wire" (The New York Times)