Dr Innocent Dande is a postdoctoral research fellow in the International Studies Group. His research interests focus on Animal History and the socio-cultural history of southern Africa. He did his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Zimbabwe before proceeding to Stellenbosch University for his PhD (2017 - 2020).

Dande, Innocent and Sandra Swart, ‘A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017,’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 47, 4 (2021): 567-586.

Dande, Innocent, ‘The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019,’ Critical African Studies, 13, 3 (2021): 321-337.

Dande, Innocent, ‘The Colonial State, African Dog Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s,’ Journal of the History of Biology, 54, (2021): 689 717.

Dande, Innocent and Sandra Swart, ‘‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ (Nhasi tinokama imbwa) – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–1950,’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 50, 4, (2022): 672–704.

Dande, Innocent, ‘Cooking, the crisis and cuisines: household economies and food politics in Harare’s high-density suburbs, (Zimbabwe), 1997 2020,’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 48, 6 (2022): 1058-1076.

Dande, Innocent, Elijah Doro, Muchaparara Musemwa, and Thembani Dube. "Remembering Mugabe." South African Historical Journal 72, 2 (2020): 321-344.

Dande, Innocent, and Joseph Mujere. 'Contested histories and contested land claims: traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017' Review of African Political Economy 46, 159 (2019): 86-100.

Dande, Innocent, and Sandra Swart. 'History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c. 1975–2015' Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55, 3 (2018): 152-173.

African Humanities Program (ACLS) Postdoctoral Award, 2022

Journal of Southern African Studies' Collin Murray Postdoctoral Award, 2020

Stellenbosch University Faculty of Arts and Social Science doctoral scholarship, 2017 - 2019

University of Zimbabwe book prize 2016 for Masters of Arts Degree in African history, 2016

Harry Frank Guggenheim's Young African Scholars  Award, 2012 - 2014