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2024
Decay Widths of Baryon Resonance
A meson fluctuation about a two-flavored chiral soliton model is studied.
Democratized Precision Diagnostics
Modern medicine aims to improve our current abilities to diagnose and treat human diseases via a more personal health assessment.
Developing molecular tools to study genetics codes using single-cell genomics
The ability to characterize cell types and their genetic programs across tissues, have profoundly accelerated through the development of single-cell sequencing methods.
Echoes: A Collection of Historical Short Stories (working title)
This project looks back at history via the short story genre.
Epistemic Virtues of African Proverbs: Implications for Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa
This project examines Akan and Yoruba epistemic virtue proverbs and theorises how they can be harnessed to transform knowledge and achieve epistemic decolonisation in Africa.
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers.
Extending the concept of local adaptation
Most species occur in subdivided (fragmented) populations.
Fight against antimicrobial resistance in poultry farms in Benin by bacteriophages: a study based on the One Health approach
In Benin, the preliminary studies showed that the leafy vegetables produced in southern Benin were contaminated with C.
From Africans to Blacks: The Making of a Racial Identity in Contemporary France
The purpose of this project is to analyze the construction of black identity in 21st - century France.
Genocide and Hope: Studies in the Architecture of Oppression and the Redemptive Possibilities of Nonviolence
I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the Genocide and Hope Quartet, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi; Auschwitz; Hiroshima; and Robben Island.
Germline specification and its role in epigenetic inheritance of diseases
The germline functions to perpetuate life and relay genetic and epigenetic information across generations.
God’s Creolization. A Regionally Sensitive Reconceptualization of the Religious History of Israel and Judah in the Iron Age
In this project, for the first time, the history of early Israelite Religion is based on the results of historical research on the emergence and development of the two states Judah and Israel.
Implant Associated Infections
The aim research project is to find new ways to prevent and treat implant associated infections.
Inhospitable Places: Feminist Thinking on Whiteness, Men, and Various Kinds of Women in South African contexts
Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts.
Israel’s Forgotten Invasion: An International History of the 1982 Lebanon War
Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a formative moment in Middle Eastern and international history, reshaping Israeli and Lebanese politics, society, and culture; the fate of Palestinian self-determination; diaspora Jewish attachments to Zionism; and Western policy across the Arab world.
Land tenure in secondary cities: discourses, practices, and social representations
Building on empirical findings of former projects (spread over the years, from 2014 to 2023), the research project aims at conceiving land tenure otherwise, deviating from standard approaches by putting the articulation of interests and claims first; tracing how actors relate to each other and how they try to make their own claims heard and recognized by others.
Legal Prostitution: A Crime Against Humanity?
Despite extensive social science research documenting the coercion and damage attendant and endemic to the sex industry and decades of legal debate on approaches to this problem, no effective legal challenges have resulted.
Leila Aboulela: Writing Women, Writing Islam
This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b.
Life cycle sustainability assessment of (de)centralized power grids
Many parts of Africa are today not connected to an electricity grid.
Local adaptation of parasite off-host stages
Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites.
Losing the Lustre: The End of Gold in South Africa
Gold dominated South Africa for a century.
Migration: An economist’s historical perspective
This project provides a historical perspective on migration, demonstrating that it is the defining feature of our species, without which homo sapiens would not have thrived and populated our planet.
Modelling and simulation of actuators based on bio-inspired self-sustained electronic oscillators
Bioinspiration is the use of physical and technological principles to design devices working almost as biological entities (from the animal and vegetal species).
Modelling how Diversity Sustains Societies’ Resilience (MODUS): How does incorporating biodiversity change solutions of optimum resource-use problems?
Throughout environmental history, humanity has prospered from the natural resources provided by the biodiversity in their environments.
Neuron diversity and vulnerability in neurodegenerative disease
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are devastating disorders affecting millions worldwide.
New approaches to anti-obesity therapeutics – Part 2
Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to human health.
Open Data in the Age of Generative AI
In recent decades nations around the world have begun to open up significant amounts of the non-personal data they generate, gather and hold.
Pacing within sonic spaces: a psychology of music and work
Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity at work has been exploited.
Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces
This project will focus on a widespread myth, namely that Sweden is a country mainly without corruption and involved internationally in corruption only because of the demands from corrupt governments and people in the rest of the world.
Reasoning in Physics: The Bayesian Approach
This project addresses the question of what constitutes good scientific reasoning.
Reframing the Right to Education in International Law (and Deconstructing “Cultural Rights” More Broadly)
Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a reframing of the right to education in international law.
Representing Abortion as an Ordinary Experience to Achieve Reproductive Justice
The way we talk about abortion needs to change.
Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen
This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.
Restitution of Gains from Profit-making Wrongs
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment flowing from the invasion of another’s rights.
Seaports and Development: Nigeria and Angola since the 1980s
Can seaports function as growth poles outside the Traditional Maritime Nations?
Space and temporality in family language policy: Multilingualism, linguistic repertoires and lived experiences
With increased transnational migration in recent years, children growing up with more than one language has become more and more common as people cross borders, integrate into new cultural-linguistic landscapes, form intermarriages and partnerships, and create multilingual families.
Species delimitation from genetic data – a quantitative assessment of a spatiotemporal approach
Despite its fundamental status in biology, the species category definition remains controversial and quantitative methods to test species status are in their infancy.
Storying the blue Anthropocene from the oceanic South: oscillating and turbulent perspectives on the planetary crisis
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects of the Anthropocene.
Taking Evolutionary Biology Beyond the Gene
Evolution depends on the copying of genetic information (DNA) with the incorporation of changes (mutations) that are inherited by subsequent generations.
Temporality and Technologies in South African Social Grant Life, 2020 and Beyond
In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO).
Textless Speech-to-Speech translation for voice user interfaces using an oral language to assist low-skilled, low-literate people
Digital inclusion is a real concern when dealing with low-skilled, low-literate people who only speak oral languages.
The “social work” of work: Gendered dependencies of rural livelihoods in southern Africa
While policy-makers and international development practitioners in southern Africa put a great weight on supporting job creation given several decades of jobless growth in the region, there is less attention on how women and men are both differentially situated in labour relations and how they differentially make claims on resources that come from work activities through, for example, idioms of kinship, family, patronage, or friendship.
The African freshwater system: pressure-impact relationships, changes, and risks
Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it.
The coloniality and necropolitics of nuclear sacrifice zones: The case of South Africa’s nuclear waste disposal site, Vaalputs
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste.
The interface between South African publishing, authors, the academy, and anglophone publishing elsewhere in Africa: a personal retrospective
Surprisingly little is known about how the South African publishing industry has operated over the past 35 politically tumultuous years.
The Legacies of the International Criminal Court Intervention in Kenya
The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post-election violence commission report (GOK 2008).
The Martyr: A Graphic Comic Novel that explores the link between economic inequality, marginalization and violent extremism and radicalization in East Africa
The Martyr traces the story of Omar, a young Kenyan man and a talented sculptor who joins the Al-Shabaab after being innocently arrested in a police swoop and locked up for two years.
Urbanist at Large: Iterating an Urban Sensibility
The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years.