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Anne-Maria B. Makhulu CV

Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
CV

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).

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 · 2015 - Present Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies · 2015 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2018 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship · 2018 - Present Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

In the News


Published March 23, 2022
Graduate School Announces 9 Dean's Award Recipients for 2022
Published July 19, 2021
11 Duke-Authored Books on Global Perspectives
Published December 14, 2020
Anne-Maria Makhulu: South Africa After the Rainbow

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Recent Publications


#CiteBlackWomen

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 Cite

Citing 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 Cite

Trump, 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 Cite
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Recent Grants


Gridding Solar: Growth Futures after Fossil Fuels in Bangladesh

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026

The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2018

An Inquiry into Market Speculation in Johannesburg and New York

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2011 - 2012

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Education, Training & Certifications


The University of Chicago · 2003 Ph.D.
The University of Chicago · 1996 M.A.
Columbia University · 1994 B.A.