2019 

• PhD History - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis

• Dissertation Title: “The ‘Coloured Question’ and the University of Pretoria: Separate - Development, Trusteeship and Self Reliance, 1933-2012”

2012               

• MA, History - Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

2010

• MA, Communication and Information Sciences (degree with distinction) - Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

2009

• Bachelor of Historical and Cultural Sciences (Honours) (degree with distinction) - University of Pretoria

2007

• Bachelor of Education (degree with distinction) - University of Pretoria

                                       

  
  

• 2018- present - Senior Lecturer, History Department, Rhodes University, South Africa  

• 2016-2017 - Instructor, History Department, University of Minnesota

• 2013-2015 - Media Services Fellow, College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology (CLA OIT), University of Minnesota

• 2009-2010 - Researcher, South African History Online (SAHO), Pretoria

• 2008-2009 - History teacher, Grades 8-12, Loreto Convent School, Pretoria

Refereed Journal Articles

• “Separate Development and Self-Reliance at the University of Pretoria.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, 43, December 2017.

   

• “Headlands and Headings: Re-locating the Coloured Category.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, 47 (1), 2021.

   

• “Transporting the Bus Stop Republic – Resilience and Apartheid’s Transport Infrastructure, 1979 to present times,” Social Dynamics, 48 (1), April 2022.

   

• “Rethinking Resilience: South Africa and Self-Reliance,” Social Dynamics, Social Dynamics, 48 (1), April 2022. Co-authored with Ruth Sacks.

   

• “Forging an Alternative to Separate (Parallel) Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State and the ‘Coloured’ Question (1932-1984),” South African Historical Journal, 73 (4), 2022.

   

• “ ‘Until the people govern”: the Black students’ movement at Rhodes University in the 1980s’”, Safundi, 23 (1-2), 2023. Co-authored with Katherine Gillam.

   

• “South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid”, Journal of African History, 65 (1), 2025. Rountable.

   

Book Chapters

• “Black Academics Matter Too: Anti-blackness at South African Universities.” Essays in South African Historiography. Manchester University Press, 2023.

   

   

• 2021-2024 - Mellon Early Career Scholars Fellowship, Rhodes University, R1,215,000

• 2021 - Writing Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)

• 2020 - Black Academics’ Advancement Programme (BAAP), National Research Foundation (NRF), R299 546

• 2020 - Carnegie/ACLS African Humanities Programme (AHP), $20 000

• 2019 - African Critical Inquiry Programme, (ACIP), R60 000

   

• 2021 - Sunday World Heroic Woman (Academic category)

• 2020 - Rhodes Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award nomination

   

• 2024-2026 - Head of Department, History

• 2022-2024 - Book review editor, H-SAfrica

• 2021-2025 - African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) selection committee

• 2023 - Rhodes University Library Committee

• 2019-current - Advisory Board, Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University

• 2019 - Academic Representative, Rhodes University Senate

• 2019 - Rhodes Biko Dialogue, National Arts Festival, 27 June

• 2023 - Community Service Learning Course, Rhodes University, 17 July-18 August