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Humanities Internal AWARDS DST/NRF Dean’s Awards for Teaching Excellence for 4 SARChI 2015: Dr Bodhisattva Kar (historical studies), Dr Christopher Ouma (english language and Chairs literature) and Dr Shose Kessi (psychology). Distinguished Teacher Award: Dr Joanne Hardman (School of Education) and Dr Azila Reisenberger (School of Languages and Literatures). Accredited 2015 UCT Book Award: Assoc Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh journal units 170.2 (Dept of Religious Studies) for Sufi Narratives of Intimacy. 2016 UCT Book Award: Dr Litheko Modisane (Centre for Film and Media Studies) for South Africa’s Renegade Reels: the making and public lives of black-centred films. R Income raised 48.4m by contracts External AWARDS Prof Xolela Mangcu: Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award; he will use his research grant to write a new biography of former president Nelson Mandela. He Increase in foreign funding takes up the fellowship at Harvard University for the 2016/2017 academic year. from foreign universities from foreign universities 2014 2015 2014 2015 Mecodem Project – Prof Herman Wasserman, Dr Tanja Bosch and Assoc Prof Wallace Chuma form R12 393 531 R1 127 773 R1 897 804 R23 996 the South African team of the Media, Conflict and Democratisation project funded by the European Union, a multi-country study. Centre for African Studies/College of Music Mellon Funded Project ‘Re-Centring Afro-Asia: Musical NRF ratings and Human Migrations in the Pre-Colonial Period’, directed by Prof Ari Sitas, in collaboration with 86 Prof Ntsebeza and others. 5 A rated 1 UCT RESEARCH & INNOVATION 2015–16 Faculty highlights HIGHLIGHTS from June 2015 to June 2016 New leadership appointments Significant research contributions Roger Gachago was appointed in 2016 to the role of Assoc Prof Horman Chitonge published two monographs. humanities IT manager – a position previously occupied by Puleng Makhoalibe. Major research grants Prof Harry Garuba: head of Dept of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics (AXL) Mellon Funding: Humanities Professoriate was and acting deputy dean (research and postgraduate established in 2015 to provide targeted/strategic affairs) for a period of one year. support to black (female and male) staff members in the Faculty of Humanities, so that they can Prof Jane Bennett: head of the Dept for English Language meet specific career development criteria and/ and Literature. or to produce research outputs that will impact Assoc Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh: head of the Dept for in a significantly positive manner on their career Religious Studies. development. The programme seeks to increase the representation of black academic staff members in more senior academic positions. New initiatives Mellon Funding: The ICA established a Graduate The Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), formerly Programme in Interdisciplinary and Public Arts (MA and the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative PhD), offering Mellon scholarships and fellowships to Arts (GIPCA), was launched on 5 April 2016. emerging artists (through Mellon Funding). UCT English Language Centre: opened its doors Mellon Funding received for the Centre for Curating to the first cohort of students in October 2015. the Archive ‘Other Histories’ project (three-year This is one of only two language centres located grant). Funding enables workshops, exhibitions and within a South African university; it will support the appointment of post-doctoral fellowships. the university’s internationalisation agenda. The initiative, which is aimed primarily at the Asian and Northern European markets, signals Research groupings highlights a new approach to language training at UCT. In its second year, the Queer in Africa symposium was For the first time, the humanities will offer a co-hosted by UCT’s Institute for Humanities in Africa selection of year-round courses in general (HUMA), the Human Science Research Council (HSRC), english (beginner to advanced levels); business and the University of Huddersfield; and supported by english; and exam preparation for the IELTS, the Heinrich Boell Foundation. The two-day symposium TOEFL and Cambridge FCE and CAE exams to brought together 15 scholars and activists from Namibia, the international community. DRC, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and the UK. POSTGRADUATES (end-2015) 627 Master’s students Master’s graduates 215 Highest number PhD students PhD graduates yet 260 in one academic year 48 PhD graduates 34 POSTDOCS (end-2015) HUMANITIES 2 DOCTORAL GRADUATIONS Education in South Africa Supervised by Associate Professor D. Ng’ambi and Source: Doctoral Degrees Board Profesor V. Bozalek (UWC) S.F. GORDON (PSYCHOLOGY) A.M. AREND (EDUCATION) Imaging fear: exploring the psychological impact of Revealing the Janus face of literacy: text production a culture of violence on women and the creation of trans-contextual stability in Supervised by Dr F.A. Boonzaier South Africa’s criminal justice system A. HARTNACK (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) Supervised by Associate Professor M. Prinsloo Cultivations on the frontiers of modernity: power, S.N. BESHARATI (PSYCHOLOGY) welfare and belonging on commercial farms before Cognitive, social and emotional processes in and after “fast-track land reform” in Zimbabwe unawareness of illness following stroke Supervised by Professor F. Ross Supervised by Professor M. Solms and Dr K. H.Y. HOBONGWANE-DULEY (EDUCATION) Fotopoulou Exploring indigenous knowledge practices R. BLAKE (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) concerning health and wellbeing: A case study Moral Motherhood: the politics of care in a Western of isi-Xhosa-speaking woman in the rural village Cape township in South Africa Eastern Cape Supervised by Dr L.S. Lauren Supervised by Associate Professor L. Cooper and Associate Professor S. Ismail M.D.C. BLYTH (EDUCATION) Chronicle of a disappearance: an auto-ethnography C.-W. HUANG (EDUCATION) of teacher in conflict Argument as design: a multimodal approach to Supervised by Associate Professor K.S. Murris academic argument in a digital age Supervised by Dr A. Archer C.W. BROODRYK (FILM STUDIES) Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film K.R. JACOBS (EDUCATION) as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 –2014 The classroom implementation of indigenous Supervised by Associate Professor M.P. Botha knowledge in the science curriculum by science teachers in the Western Cape province, South P.R. COATES (HISTORICAL STUDIES) Africa The South African Library as a State-aided national Supervised by Associate Professor R.C. Laugksch library in the era of apartheid: an administrative history A.H. JANSE VAN RENSBURG (MEDIA STUDIES) Supervised by Professor H. Phillips Finding new and innovative ways of communicating climate change to the vulnerable: A study of the J. COHEN (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) contextual and internal factors that influence Kruiedokters, plants and molecules: relations of audience understandings of climate change in the power, wind, and matter in Namaqualand Western Cape Supervised by Professor L.J. Green Supervised by Dr I. Saleh T. DEWHURST (PHILOSOPHY) J. JODAMUS (RELIGIOUS STUDIES) Knowledge through communication: a response to An investigation into the construction (s) and the question of how testimony-based knowledge is representation (s) of masculinity (ies) and possible femininity (ies) in 1 Corinthians Supervised by Professor B. Weiss and Dr D.H. Supervised by Emeritus Associate Professor C.W. Chapman S. KEGGIE (PSYCHOLOGY) N. DINESH (DRAMA) A human rights violation during the South African Grey zones: performances, perspectives, and transition: documenting narratives of the 1993 possibilities in Kashmir Highgate attack in a support group context Supervised by Dr V. Baxter and Professor A. Sitas Supervised by Professor M.L. Solms C. DU PLOOY (PSYCHOLOGY) C.Y. KIM (PSYCHOLOGY) The Effects of Acute Stress on Retrieval of Visual Racial Integration: A Social Intervention on a South and Spatial Material African University Campus Supervised by Professor K. Thomas Supervised by Professor C.G. Tredoux D. GACHAGO (EDUCATION) J. LERM (PHILOSOPHY) Sentimentality and Digital Storytelling: Towards Moral reason of our own a Post-Conflict Pedagogy in Pre-Service Teacher Supervised by Dr E. Galgut and Professor T. Metz 3 UCT RESEARCH & INNOVATION 2015–16 P. LINOSSI (ITALIAN LANGUAGE & L.J. NDLELA (AFRICAN LANGUAGES & LITERATURE) LITERATURE) Grazia Deledda epistolografa uPeter tshobiso mtuze neenoveli zakhe Supervised by Associate Professor G. Tuccini Supervised by Associate Professor M.A. Nyamende D. LOTTER (ENVIRONMENTAL & G.J. NOMDO (SOCIOLOGY) GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES) At the crossroads of the identity (re)construction Potential implications of climate change for process: an analysis of ‘fateful moments’ in the lives Rooibos (A. linearis) production and distribution in of coloured students within an equity development the greater Cederberg region, South Africa) programme at UCT Supervised by Dr M. Tadross and Professor M. Supervised by Dr J. Graaff Meadows Y. OMAR (EDUCATION) A.C. MARIE (FRENCH LANGUAGE & ‘In my stride’: a life-history of Alie Fataar, teacher LITERATURE) Supervised by Professor C. Soudien Hybridité, animalitéet métissage la littérature C.R. PAXTON (EDUCATION) francophone contemporaine entre parasitisme et Possibilities and constraints for improvement in devenir-autre rural South African schools Supervised by Professor J.L. Cornille Supervised by Professor P.H. Christie and Dr J. T. MATINGWINA (LIBRARY & Heather INFORMATION SCIENCE) I.G. POOBALAN (RELIGIOUS STUDIES) Health Information dissemination among Who is the