​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​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. 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.’

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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