| Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Associate Professor
![Anne-Maria B. Makhulu](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/u4761.jpg) Teaching (Fall 2024):
- Culanth 171.01, Anthropologists in workplaces
Synopsis
- Perkins 065, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Aaas 503s.01, The black radical tradition
Synopsis
- Perkins 088, Tu 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
Education:
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Ph.D. The University of Chicago 2003
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M.A. The University of Chicago 1996
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B.A. Columbia University 1994
- Specialties:
- Africa
- Post Colonialism
- Neoliberalism
- Globalization
- Urban Anthropology
- Political Economy
- Finance
- Social Movements
- Culture Theory
Research Interests:
Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa.
Makhulu is co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010). She is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (2015) as well as articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA.
A new project, "Black and Bourgeois: Defining Race and Class After Apartheid," examines the relationship between race and mobility in post-apartheid South Africa. - Representative Publications
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- Makhulu, A-M. Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Duke University Press, 2015. (In press) [abs]
- with Makhulu, A-M; Buggenhagen, BA; Jackson, S. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) University of California Press, 2010. 240 pages pages pp. [24b027x0] [abs]
- Makhulu, AM. "The conditions for after Work: Financialization and informalization in posttransition South Africa." PMLA. Edited
by Vicky Unruh. vol. 127 no. 4 (October, 2012): 782-799. [repository], [doi] [abs]
- Makhulu, AM. "The "dialectics of toil": Reflections on the politics of space after apartheid." Anthropological Quarterly. Edited
by Jesse Weaver Shipley. Ethics of Scale: Relocating Politics After Liberation vol. 83 no. 3 (Summer, 2010): 551-580. [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Makhulu, A-M. "The Search for Economic Sovereignty." Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. Edited
by Makhulu, A-MB; Buggenhagen, BA; Jackson, S. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) ( 2010): 28-47. [24b027x0] [abs]
- Makhulu, A-M. "The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age." Ethnographies of Neoliberalism. Edited
by Greenhouse, CJ. ( 2010): 131-145. [abs]
- Makhulu, A-M. "Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Edited
by Weiss, B. Studies of Religion in Africa vol. 26 ( 2004): 229-261.
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