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Humanities RESEARCH REPORT 2014-15 Rothko: Insert Faculty ‘Snapshots’ Her Humanities FACULTY OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH REPORT 2014-15 Rothko: Insert Faculty ‘snapshots’ her Humanities FACULTY RESEARCH STRATEGY DST/NRF SARChI The Faculty aims to: 4 Chairs Support and encourage current research through its disbursement of funds through the Accredited block grant process journal units (Units are assigned to Enable senior academics to display academic accredited research outputs 193 leadership in advancing work in their discipline and translate into a total and in mentoring more junior colleagues monetary value) Foster the next generation of scholars through postdoctoral fellowships and doctoral scholarships (renewable for three years) 79 5 A rated Reward and incentivise good scholarship NRF-rated B rated researchers 27 th The 2014-15 Times Higher Education 80 World University Rankings places UCT nd at 80th for arts and humanities 52 and 52nd for social sciences UCT RESEARCH 2014-15 1 Internal AWARDS External AWARDS Professor Mark Fleishman (Department of Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship from Drama) was awarded the 2015 Creative Works Harvard University: Associate Professor Floretta Award for his production, Every Year, Every Boonzaier (Department of Psychology) Day, I am Walking African bid for the Optimus Study: Associate Professor Sa’diyya Shaikh (Department of Professor Catherine Ward (Department of Religious Studies) has won the 2015 UCT Book Psychology); Associate Professor Lilian Artz Award for her exploration of the ideas of a 13th (Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit); Patrick century Sufi mystic, poet and scholar in Sufi Burton (Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention) Narratives of Intimacy Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant: Associate Associate Professor Xolela Mangco Professor Marion Walton (Department of Film and (Department of Sociology) received the Media Studies) Meritorious Book Award for his telling of Steve Biko’s story in Biko: A Biography NRF Blue Skies award: Associate Professor Mohamed Adhikari (Department of History) Oppenheimer Trust Grant: Associate Professor Anri POSTGRADUATE Herb (School of Music) ENROLMENTS AND NRF Grant to Associate Professors Morne POSTDOCTORAL Bezuidenhout and Rebekka Sandmeier (School of FELLOWS IN 2015 Music) 28 Postdoctoral fellows New master’s course launched: PhD students Medicine and the Arts 260 Offered by the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Master’s students Linguistics (AXL), for students in the 627 humanities and health sciences 2 UCT RESEARCH 2014-15 DOCTORAL GRADUATIONS C.M. CHIHOTA (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE) K.C. ABNEY (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) Towards Marxist stylistics: incorporating elements At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis of critical discourse analysis into althusserian patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Marxist criticism in the interpretation of selected Cape Town, South Africa Zimbabwean fiction Supervised by Dr S. Levine Supervised by Professor K. Sole, Dr J. Dornbrack and Professor K. McCormick G. ADLARD (ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES) M. CHILESHE (ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES) Collaboration at the crossroads: The enabling of large- Economic shocks, poverty and household food insecurity scale cross-sector collaborative developments Supervised in urban Zambia: an ethnographic account of Chingola by Associate Professor S. Oldfield Supervised by Dr J. Battersby-Lennard and Dr B. Frayne B.T. ALSTON (RELIGIOUS STUDIES) A. DE BEER (FILM & TELEVISION STUDIES) Transatlantic latter-day saints: Mormon circulations “We’ll have a gay ol’ time” Transgressive sexuality and between America and South Africa sexual taboo in adult television animation Supervised by Professor D. Chidester Supervised by Associate Professor M. Botha A. ATTA-ASAMOAH (POLITICAL STUDIES) P.A. DLAMINI (AFRICAN LANGUAGES Transnational security challenges and statehood in & LITERATURE) Africa: A case study of drug trafficking in Ghana The impact of SiSwati l1 on the acquisition of academic Supervised by Associate Professor J. Akokpari English by tertiary students in Swaziland P.B.J. AYCARD (LINGUISTICS) Supervised by Dr T. Dowling The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, A.J. DODD (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE) Soweto: slang and language contact in an African Secular séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in urban context contemporary South African art Supervised by Professor R. Mesthrie and Dr E. Hurst Supervised by Professor C. Clarkson and Professor U. BADENHORST (RELIGIOUS STUDIES) C. Hamilton The language of gardens: ibn al-‘Arabi’s barzakh, the A.L. DUNCAN (PSYCHOLOGY) courtyard gardens of the Alhambra and the production Euphoria in multiple sclerosis: an investigation of of sacred space constructs and symptoms Supervised by Professor D. Chidester and Associate Supervised by Professor M. Solms and Dr S. Professor S. Shaikh Malcolm-Smith S. BARRIGYE (SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT) N.A. FOUCHÉ (EDUCATION) Sustaining the peace in northern Uganda: exploring Intensive care nurses’ experiences of death in the ICU the potential for community participation in conflict and the implications for postgraduate resolution processes nursing pedagogy: a Heideggerian Supervised by Dr C. O’Brien phenomenological study A.J. CARTER (PSYCHOLOGY) Supervised by Dr K. Williams Struggling to hold addiction treatment talk and relapse G.D. HARRISON (EDUCATION) in mind Tools for learning: a socio-cultural analysis of pedagogy Supervised by Associate Professor C. Ward and Associate in early reading competency Professor S. Swartz Supervised by Dr A. Muthivhi and Dr J. Hardman M.J. CAWOOD (ENGLISH LANGUAGE G.D. HAYSOM (ENVIRONMENTAL AND AND LITERATURE) GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE) Passing on: “The weight of memory” and the second Food system governance for urban sustainability in the generation fiction of Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald and global South Bernhard Schlink Supervised by Dr J. Battersby-Lennard and Professor Supervised by Professor C. Clarkson and Dr S. Young G. Pirie C.A. CHAGUNDA (SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT) C.M. HUTCHINGS (PSYCHOLOGY) South Africa’s social assistance intervention as a building Narrative means towards literacy understandings: block of a developmental state exploring transformations within literacies and migrating Supervised by Associate Professor V. Taylor identities. An analysis of narrative reflections towards UCT RESEARCH 2014-15 3 the development of critical reflective thinking by mature S. MUYEBA (SOCIOLOGY) students in a classroom of wider access Does low-income homeownership work? The effects of Supervised by Associate Professor S. Swartz titling among beneficiaries in Cape Town and Lusaka Z.B. JOLOBE (POLITICAL STUDIES) Supervised by Professor J. Seekings Getting to CODESA an analysis on why multiparty S. NGESI (RHETORIC STUDIES) negotiations in South Africa began, 1984-1999 Treading a tightrope: A rhetorical study of the tension Supervised by Professor A. Seegers between the executive and collective leadership of the E. LEVITZ (HEBREW LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE) African National Congress (ANC): From Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki The concept of fatherhood in traditional Jewish sources Supervised by Distinguished Professor P. Salazar and its impact on current views of fatherhood Supervised by Dr A. Reisenberger A. NHEMACHENA (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) R. MAGOSVONGWE (AFRICAN LANGUAGES & Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in LITERATURES) conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe Supervised by Associate Professor L. Green and Professor Land and identity in Zimbabwean fiction writings in F. Ross English from 2000 to 2010 critical analysis Supervised by Associate Professor A. Nyamende and N.M. NICKANOR (ENVIRONMENTAL AND Professor Z. Makwavarara GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE) A.S. MAHALI (DRAMA) Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia A museum of bottled sentiments: the ‘beautiful pain Supervised by Professor S. Parnell and Dr J. Battersby syndrome’ in twenty-first century Black South African theatre making E. NOGUEIRA-GODSEY (RELIGIOUS STUDIES) Supervised by Associate Professor G. Morris and The ecofeminism of Ivone Gebara Professor A. Sitas Supervised by Professor D. Chidester and Associate D.J. MANSFIELD (PSYCHOLOGY) Professor S. Shaikh The role of the magnocellular system in M. NORTON (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) implicit cognition At the interface: marine compliance inspectors at work Supervised by Professor C. Tredoux in the Western Cape J. MATAGA (AFRICAN STUDIES) Supervised by Associate Professor L. Green and Associate Professor A. Jarre Practices of pastness, postwars of the dead, and the power of heritage: museums, monuments and sites in E. OPOKU MENSAH (RHETORIC STUDIES) colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-2010 The rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah: analysis of his Supervised by Associate Professor N. Shepherd political speeches M. MAWERE (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) Supervised by Distinguished Professor P. Salazar Forest insects, personhood and the environment: C. POWELL (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) Harurwa (edible stinkbugs) and conservation in south- ICTs and the reconfiguration of marginality in Langa eastern Zimbabwe Township: A study of migration and belonging Supervised by Dr L. Green Supervised by Professor F. 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