Following the deaths of 78 informal miners in South Africa, Rosalind Morris published an analytic Op Ed in 'The Conversation' and was interviewed by Richard Poplack for the Daily Maverick. You can read her piece in 'The Conversation' here.
What does the landscape of extractivism look like? What is desire in and of the underground? Rosalind Morris reflects on the art and career of one of South Africa's pre-eminent painters, and the queer perspectivalism that he invented to describe his punctured and porous world.
In 'Strange Abundance,' Catherine Fennell asks whether deconstruction can unlock resources abandoned in late industrial cities. Read and see the photo-essay here.
Jorge Alejandro Rodriguez Solorano's paper “Betting on the State: Indigenous Legal Activism in Mexico’s Reforma Indigena (2024)” has been selected for this year’s Law & Humanities Workshop at Stanford University on June 9-10, 2025. Congratulations Jorge!
The department is proud to announce that Professor John Pemberton has been awarded a Faculty Recognition Award by the Dean of Social Sciences in honor of his contributions to study in the field.