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Department of African & African American Studies
at Duke University

Anne-Maria Makhulu, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies  

Office Location: Friedl Building Rm. 201H
Office Phone: +1 919 668 5251
Email Address: amakhulu@duke.edu

Specialties:
Africa
Post Colonialism
Marxism
Neoliberalism
Globalization
Urban Anthropology
Finance
Political Economy

Education:
PhD, University of Chicago, 2003
MA, University of Chicago, 1996
BA (summa cum laude), Columbia University, 1994

Teaching (Fall 2008):   (typical courses)

  • AAAS 153.01, Magical modernities
    Blackwell 119, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • CULANTH 190.01, Theoretical foundations Synopsis
    Frdl bldg 204, WF 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. with Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson, Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa, The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) (2008), University of California Press (Under Review.)  [abs].
  2. with Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson, Introduction, in Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa, The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection (also published in hardcopy), edited by Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, and Anne-Maria B. Makhulu (2008), University of California Press (Under Review.)  [abs].
  3. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, The Search for Economic Sovereignty, in Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa, The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy), edited by Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, and Anne-Maria B. Makhulu (2008), University of California Press (Under Review.)  [abs].
  4. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age, in Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism, edited by Carol Greenhouse (2008), University of Pennsylvania Press (Under Review.)  [abs].
  5. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Race, Space, and Place: The New Urban Politics after Apartheid, Social Text (Winter, 2008) (In preparation.) .
  6. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa, in Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age, Studies of Religion in Africa, edited by Brad Weiss, vol. 26 (2004), pp. 229-261, Brill Press .

Curriculum Vitae