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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, Initiatives

Education, Training & Certifications


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