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
Office Hours: By Appointment
Location: Friedl Building (East Campus), Room 201E | Zoom
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
- Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Initiatives 2018
Contact Information
- 205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
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amakhulu@duke.edu
(919) 668-5251
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#12 - "Wealth Gap: Wider Than Gender," #IAlsoWantMoney Podcast
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CV
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In the Media | BLACKBOARD | CURRICULUM; Deconstructing "The Wire" (The New York Times)
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In the Media | Professor Turns to HBO's "The Wire" for Course
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In the Media | This Will Be on the Midterm...Why so many colleges are teaching "The Wire"
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Interview | Left of Black (S2:E5): Dr. Makhulu Discusses Her Course on "The Wire"
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Interview | Left of Black (S6:E15): Squatting for Freedom + #FeesMustFall in South Africa
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Interview | Meet the Professors (AAAS)
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Interview | Rethinking Global Cities: Johannesburg and Cape Town
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Panel Discussion | "I woke up like this": Desire & Respectability in ShondaLand
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., The University of Chicago 2003
- M.A., The University of Chicago 1996
- B.A., Columbia University 1994
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- 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
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Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
- Faculty Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Program (2016-2022)
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Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2017 - 2020
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. The Graduate School. 2022
- Faculty Advancement Seed Grant. Office of Faculty Advancement. 2021
- Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant . Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. May 2019
- NEH Grant Fellowship for Project: “The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid”. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). February 2017
- Course Development Grant. Trinity College. 2017
- Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research Summer Grant. Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. May 4, 2016
- Josiah Trent Memorial Foundation Grant. Trent Foundation. December 11, 2015
- Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies Grant . Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies. December 4, 2015
- Mellon Humanities Funding. Andrew Mellon Foundation. 2014
- Social Sciences Division Funding. Trinity Arts & Sciences. 2014
- Africa Initiative Grant. Africa Initiative. 2013
- Josiah Trent Memorial Foundation Grant. Josiah Trent Memorial Foundation. 2011
- Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research Travel Grant. Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. 2008
- Duke University Center for International Studies Research Grant. Duke University. 2008
- Provost Common Fund. Duke University. 2008
- Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research Travel Grant. Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. 2006
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship. Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton. 2006
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Research Fellowship. Princeton University. 2006
- Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Travel Grant. Princeton University. January 2005
- Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Travel Grant. Princeton University. 2005
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Course Development Grant for “Rethinking Globalization” . Princeton University. 2004
- Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Travel Grant. Princeton University. 2004
- Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Travel Grant. Princeton University. January 2004
- Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Council on the Humanities, Princeton University. 2003
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship. University of Chicago. 2000
- Josephine de Kármán Fellowship. University of Chicago. 2000
- Spencer Foundation Mentor Grant. University of Chicago. 1998
- Spencer Foundation Travel Grant. University of Chicago. 1996
- Edith Heller Juda Fellowship. University of Chicago. 1995
- Unendowed Fellowship. University of Chicago. 1994
- Helena Rubinstein Scholarship for Women in Science. Columbia University. 1993
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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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
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Seed Grant: Decolonizing the Curriculum; Building Diversity, Equity and Inclusion awarded by Duke Office of Faculty Advancement 2021
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Makhulu, A. -. M. Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Duke University Press, 2015.
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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
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Makhulu, A. -. M. South Africa After the Rainbow (In preparation), n.d.
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Academic Articles
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria, and Christen Smith. “#CiteBlackWomen.” Cultural Anthropology 37, no. 2 (May 23, 2022). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.2.01.Full Text
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition.” Cultural Anthropology 37, no. 2 (May 23, 2022). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.2.06.Full Text
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Makhulu, A. M. “Trump, Zuma, Brexit: anti-Black racism and the truth of the world.” Safundi 21, no. 4 (January 1, 2020): 493–503. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1835300.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler.” Anthropological Quarterly 91, no. 4 (2018): 1451–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2018.0075.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, A. M. “Gaining ground: Squatters and the right to the city,” January 1, 2017, 275–90.Open Access Copy
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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
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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
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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
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Makhulu, A. -. M. “Introduction.” Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 1 (2016): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3424720.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, A. M. B. “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): 256–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3603319.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994.” American Ethnologist 39, no. 4 (November 1, 2012): 843–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01398_7.x.Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Makhulu, A. M. “The conditions for after Work: Financialization and informalization in posttransition South Africa.” Pmla 127, no. 4 (October 1, 2012): 782–99. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.4.782.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “The question of freedom: Post-emancipation South Africa in a neoliberal age,” December 1, 2011.Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, A. M. “The "dialectics of toil": Reflections on the politics of space after apartheid.” Anthropological Quarterly 83, no. 3 (June 1, 2010): 551–80. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2010.0004.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “The Search for Economic Sovereignty.” Edited by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, and Stephen Jackson, 2010, 240pages-240pages.
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” 2004.Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, A. -. M. “Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Accepted).” Anthropological Quarterly, no. Summer (n.d.).Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, A. B. “A Brief History of the Social Wage: Welfare before and after Racial Fordism (Accepted).” Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 1 (n.d.).Open Access Copy
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Book Sections
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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.Open Access Copy
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Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the City.” In State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings, edited by T. Olaniyan. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Makhulu, A. -. M., B. A. Buggenhagen, and S. Jackson. “Introduction.” In Hard Work, Hard Times Global Volatility and African Subjectivities, 1–27. Univ of California Press, 2010.
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Makhulu, A. -. M., B. A. Buggenhagen, and S. Jackson. “Introduction.” In Hard Work, Hard Times Global Volatility and African Subjectivities, 1–27. Univ of California Press, 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Other Articles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Duke University Press, 2016.Open Access Copy
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Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Duke University Press, 2016.Open Access Copy
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Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Duke University Press, 2016.Open Access Copy
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Counihan, C., L. V. Graham, N. Hoad, N. Makhubu, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, and R. L. Turner. “Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past.” Duke University Press, 2016.Open Access Copy
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Journal Issues
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2023
- AAAS 503S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives 2022
- CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2022
- CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2022
- CULANTH 503S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives 2022
- CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2022
- CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2022
- CULANTH 801S: Decolonizing Social Theory 2022
- CULANTH 802S: Decolonizing Social Theory 2022
- ICS 504S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives 2022
- POLSCI 589S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives 2022
- RELIGION 503S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives 2022
- AAAS 185S: African Hashtag Activism 2021
- AAAS 397S: African Cities, Development, and Climate Change 2021
- CULANTH 185S: African Hashtag Activism 2021
- CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2021
- CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2021
- CULANTH 361S: African Cities, Development, and Climate Change 2021
- CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2021
- CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2021
- CULANTH 801S: Decolonizing Social Theory 2021
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Advising & Mentoring
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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 N. Bateman, “Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization,” defended March 27, 2020
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,” defended June 30, 2021
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,” defended November 10, 2020
Patrick Galbraith, “Bishōjo Games: The Politics of Relations with Fictional Characters in Contemporary Japan,” defended February 7, 2017
Alexis Ligon-Holloway, "Composing Whiteness: The Invisibility and Hypervisibility of Blackness in American Classical Music," ongoing dissertation advising
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,” defended April 1, 2021
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 Collins, “Brewing Development: Multinational Alcohol Companies, the Neo-Concessionary State, and the Politics of Industrialization in Ethiopia, ” defended March 28, 2019
Dubie Toa-Kwapong, "'Home': Diasporic Return Migration to Accra, Ghana," ongoing dissertation advising
Naledi Yaziyo, title TBD, dissertation advising concluded 2021
Available to mentor:
- Masters
- PhD
- Post-Doc
- Undergraduate
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Undergraduate Theses:
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- 'The Dialectics of Toil’: Reflections on the Politics of Space After Apartheid. Institute for African Studies. April 24, 2018 2018
- South Africa After the Rainbow. Department of Anthropology. April 23, 2018 2018
- Black Capitalists and the Politics of South African State Capture. UNC African Studies Center Seminar Series. UNC. April 5, 2018 2018
- Black Capitalists and the Politics of South African State Capture. African Studies Research Seminar. Emory University. March 22, 2018 2018
- A Bid for Theory from the South: Experimental Thinking or Thinking with Uncertainty. American Anthropological Association Meetings. November 29, 2017 - December 3, 2017 2017
- Lessons from the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid City. Remapping the Urban Workshop. Global South and African Urbanisms Humanities Labs. October 20, 2017 2017
- Lessons from the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid City. The Matter of Urban Citizenship Workshop. Department of Anthropology. May 11, 2017 - May 12, 2017 2017
- The Black Body in the Time-Space of the Negative. Global Blackness Conference. African and African American Studies. April 23, 2017 - April 25, 2017 2017
- Provisional Notes on Black Affluence in South Africa. Department of Anthropology. Haverford College. March 16, 2017 2017
- The Women’s March on Washington. Perspectives on States of Dis-Union Public Series. African and African American Studies. January 30, 2017 2017
- The Ethnography of ‘Black Diamonds’: Provisional Notes on Black Affluence in South Africa. African Studies Workshop. Harvard University. November 7, 2016 2016
- The Time-Space of the Negative. Anthropology Southern Africa Conference. University of Venda. October 2, 2016 2016
- The Politics of Black Resistance at Universities. Black Academic Caucus. April 29, 2016 2016
- Black Affluence: A Brief Outline for Future Work. New Social Forms Seminar. April 28, 2016 2016
- Black Affluence: A Brief Outline for Future Work. Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar. April 26, 2016 2016
- Black Affluence: A Brief Outline for Future Work. Sociology Seminar. April 25, 2016 2016
- Debt, Finance, and Securitization: The Economics, Politics, and Policing of #FeesMustFall,” “Race, Property, Debt. Race, Property, Debt Symposium. Institute for Research in the Humanities. March 11, 2016 - March 12, 2016 2016
- Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Left of Black. December 8, 2015 2015
- #FeesMustFall, #StudentBlackOut Day, and the New Student Movements. Concilium on Southern Africa. December 3, 2015 2015
- The Postcolonial Contemporary. October 9, 2015 2015
- The Fantastic and the Ordinary. Fantastic Contemporary Symposium. Michaelis School of Fine Art. September 16, 2015 2015
- Urban Poverty Workshop. Sanford School of Public Policy. December 4, 2014 - December 5, 2014 2014
- Guest Lectures in International Comparative Studies on Johannesburg. Duke University. November 17, 2014 - November 19, 2014 2014
- Screening and Discussion of film “The Battle for Johannesburg” . Global Cities. Duke University. September 29, 2014 2014
- South African Cities. Global Cities Seminar. Duke University. September 18, 2014 2014
- The Debt Economy: Credit and Capture in South Africa. University of Sussex. September 9, 2014 - September 11, 2014 2014
- Reckoning. Ends of Work Conference. Society of Cultural Anthropology. May 9, 2014 2014
- Reckoning. Diasporic Circuits Reconsidered conference. University of Pennsylvania. April 17, 2014 - April 18, 2014 2014
- City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg. Shelter University Course. April 14, 2014 2014
- The New South African Debt Economy. “Beyond 'Marxism versus Postcolonialism' Symposium. Committee on Globalization and Social Change. April 4, 2014 2014
- Prison, Lights, Action: Carceral Space on ‘The Wire’. North Carolina Central University. March 20, 2014 2014
- The City in Theory. November 11, 2013 2013
- After Work. Department of Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand. March 7, 2013 2013
- After Work: South Africa’s Contingent Classes. November 17, 2012 2012
- Marikana and “Violence at a Time of Liberation”. November 8, 2012 2012
- Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the City. October 10, 2012 2012
- The Right to the City Across the South African “Transition”. April 27, 2012 2012
- Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa conference . Department of African Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin. April 26, 2012 - April 28, 2012 2012
- Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Post-apartheid South Africa. March 13, 2012 2012
- Politics of Prejudice: a conversation with Gyan Pandey. South Asia Center Workshop. Duke University. February 17, 2012 2012
- Surface, Edge, Underneath: South Africa’s Cultural Contemporary. November 1, 2011 2011
- Teaching "The Wire,” a conversation with Mark Anthony Neal. October 10, 2011 2011
- Workshop on Area Studies in a Neoliberal Age. May 2, 2011 2011
- The Consequences of Speculation: A View from South Africa. April 16, 2011 2011
- Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Teaching "The Wire". February 17, 2011 2011
- The Geography of Freedom. September 28, 2010 2010
- John Allen Life History. April 5, 2010 2010
- Anthropology of Finance. March 31, 2010 2010
- Performing Truth and Reconciliation: Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” in South Africa,. March 17, 2010 2010
- The Geography of Freedom. March 9, 2010 2010
- The Geography of Freedom. March 4, 2010 2010
- The Genealogy of Freedom. February 26, 2010 2010
- District 9: ‘Alien-Nation’, Sci-Fi and the Making of Ethno-Space. November 11, 2009 2009
- Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City. October 23, 2009 2009
- Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City. October 9, 2009 2009
- African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism: Constructing a New Legal Culture. April 17, 2009 2009
- The Search for Economic Sovereignty. March 3, 2009 2009
- The Search for Economic Sovereignty. February 23, 2009 2009
- The Search for Economic Sovereignty. February 4, 2009 2009
- Africa’s-Place-in-the-World: A Conversation with James Ferguson and Achille Mbembe. November 18, 2008 2008
- The Social Coordinates of Illness in Postcolonial Africa. October 3, 2008 2008
- Africa and the African Diaspora: Traditions, Revolutions and Innovations. SUNY, Purchase. May 10, 2008 2008
- The Micro-Finance of Everyday Life: Family Economy in Neoliberal South Africa. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. April 14, 2008 2008
- The Micro-Finance of Everyday Life: Family Economy in Neoliberal South Africa. Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series, “Portents and Dilemmas: Environmental Politics and Public Health in India and China.". April 12, 2008 2008
- Neoliberalism and Social Death in South Africa. SUNY, Purchase. February 4, 2008 2008
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Participant. Pathfinders Program. National Cener for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2021 2021
- Editorial Board Member. Cultural Anthropology (Journal). 2018 2018
- Participant. Faculty Success Program. National Cener for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2018 2018
- Co-organizer. “Race and Rurality” conference. Duke University. March 26, 2015 - March 28, 2015 2015
- Co-organizer. The Haunted Present: Reckoning After Apartheid conference. Concilium on Southern Africa. April 10, 2014 - April 11, 2014 2014
- Organizer. Meth Labs and the Ontologies of Making and Unmaking. Duke University. February 19, 2014 2014
- Organizer : Concilium on Southern Africa. July 2013 - April 2014 2013 - 2014
- Conference Organizer : The Social Coordinates of Illness in Postcolonial Africa. October 3, 2008 - October 4, 2008 2008
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Service to Duke
- Africa Initiative Steering Committee. 2019 2019
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Steering Committee. 2018 2018
- Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement. Faculty Advisory Committee . 2018 2018
- Arts & Sciences. Academic Council Faculty Scholars Committee Member. 2017 - 2019 2017 - 2019
- International Comparative Studies-Cultural Anthropology Joint Committee. 2017 2017
- Faculty Director. Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Program. 2016 - 2022 2016 - 2022
- Reappointment Committee. 2016 - 2017 2016 - 2017
- Duke University. Social Sciences Research Institute Faculty Governing Board. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Provostial Masters Program Committee. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Mellon-Mays Faculty Advisor. 2014 - 2015 2014 - 2015
- Graduate Admissions. December 10, 2013 - January 8, 2014 2013 - 2014
- Member. Concilium on Southern Africa. October 1, 2013 - October 1, 2013 2013
- International Comparative Studies Search. January 1, 2013 - April 1, 2013 2013
- Co-Organizer. Speaker Series in Cultural Anthropology. November 30, 2012 - July 1, 2013 2012 - 2013
- Departmental Representative. November 30, 2012 - July 1, 2013 2012 - 2013
- Organizer. Curriculum Innovations. November 30, 2012 2012
- Organizer. Curriculum Innovations. December 15, 2011 - December 15, 2011 2011
- Organizer. Curriculum Innovations. November 30, 2010 - November 30, 2010 2010
- Co-Organizer. AAAS Speaker Series. December 16, 2009 2009
- Concilium on Southern Africa. December 16, 2009 2009
- Concilium on Southern Africa. December 16, 2009 2009
- Global South Synergy Group. December 16, 2009 2009
- Global South Synergy Group. December 16, 2009 2009
- Graduate Committee. December 16, 2009 2009
- Organizer. Curriculum Innovations. December 16, 2009 - December 16, 2009 2009
- Speaker Series in African and African American Studies. December 16, 2009 2009
- Graduate Committee - Cultural Anthropology. December 16, 2008 2008
- Graduate Committee. August 1, 2008 2008
- Preliminary Search. August 1, 2008 2008
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Academic & Administrative Activities
- Faculty Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Program 2015-2022
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