Senior Post-Doctoral Fellows: Senior Researchers:
Dr Kim Wale
is a senior post-doctoral fellow in Studies in Historical Trauma and
Transformation at the University of Stellenbosch. She completed her PhD
at the University of London (SOAS) in post-conflict development. She
was project leader of the South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Her research interests
are in the area of trauma and collective memories of violence. She is
leading the analysis of a large dataset on transgenerational
transmission of trauma, one of the flagship research projects of Studies
in Historical Trauma and Transformation, which is funded by the Mellon
Foundation. Her first major book titled South Africa’s Struggle to
Remember: Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape
was published by Routledge.

Dr Nancy Rushohora is a Postdoctoral Fellow
in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University,
South Africa. She holds a PhD in Historical Archaeology from the University of Pretoria
(2016). Her research interests include archaeology of resistance, trauma,
heritage, photographs and memory. Currently, she is working on the Majimaji War—a
resistance against the German colonialism in Tanzania (1904-1908). She is
particularly questioning the removal and restitution of human remains from
Tanzania to Germany and engaging with the use of the war landscape, museum and
memorials.
Post-Doctoral Fellows:
Dr. Khan Touseef Osman is a postdoctoral researcher in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation Studies at Stellenbosch University. He did his PhD on “Trauma Studies and South Asian Partition Fiction” at the University of Kashmir, India. His research interests include Trauma and Memory Studies, Partition Studies and Critical Theory. His current research explores the transmission of trauma across generations and its representation in creative media. At present, Dr. Osman is working on three articles entitled “Postmemory and Imaginative Temporal Displacement in Agha Shahid Ali’s Early Poetry,” “Representational Consequences of Trauma for Post-Witness Generation Authors of Partition Fiction” and “The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron”.
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Dr
Marietjie Oelofsen is a post-doctoral fellow at the Historical Trauma
and Transformation Studies Unit. Her research focus is on how and where
South Africans talk about political trauma across racial and
generational divides, and the possibilities that exist for healing or
recovery through mediating diverse experiences in the public sphere. In
2017, Oelofsen received a PhD from Rhodes University for her thesis, Hearing
the citizens: Inequality, access to journalists and the prospects for
inclusively mediated spaces of political deliberation in South Africa.
This followed an MPhil (cum laude) at the University of Stellenbosch in
which she proposed a re-conceptualisation of the way in which
journalists consider their professional role in order to raise
possibilities for more inclusive public and political conversations.
Marietjie worked as a journalist in South Africa for 11 years, and as a
development communication specialist in the HIV /AIDS sector on the
African continent for almost two decades.’
E-mail: oelofsenm@gmail.com | Click here for publications
Dr Emery Kalema is
a Postdoctoral Fellow in Studies in Historical Trauma and
Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds a PhD
in History from the University of the Witwatersrand (2017). His research
interests include power and politics, body and embodiment, violence,
memory, trauma and suffering, as well as the postcolony. He is currently
working on a book project, based on his doctoral dissertation,
tentatively entitled, “Violence and Memory: The Mulele 'Rebellion' in
Postcolonial Congo." The book focuses on the “imaginaries of suffering"
and the relationship between power, memory, and suffering. He is also
planning to conduct a set of philosophical reflections around the theme
Memory as Freedom and Right.
E-mail: kalemamasua@yahoo.fr | Click here for publications
You may read a short piece by Dr Kalema published on the Oxford University Faculty of History website here.