Projects

Mental disorders such as Schizophrenia affect up to 5 million in Africa and epilepsy is the most widespread neurological disorder on the continent. Despite these impressive numbers the research and funding...

How do we come to know what we think we know? What evidence do we use to shape what we conceive of as truth? How does who we are—our positionality—impact how we read and make sense of the world around...

Reconceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demands a nuanced understanding of regions diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts. Concerns exist...

This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) and...

This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled...

Amyloids are proteins able to form very regular insoluble fibrils. They are associated with erroneously folded proteins and related to the onset of amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s,...

In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be...

Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South. Feminist scholarship and activism have contributed to different theories...

What makes us human? We have long known that humanity’s uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we...

A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ....

Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories. For Atlantic Creole languages,...

The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years. During the past five years my research explored the potential for sustainable infrastructure transitions in...