About Nomusa Makhubu
Nomusa Makhubu is an Associate Professor of art history at the University of Cape Town and an artist and who has received the ABSA L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award (2006) and the Prix du Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Le Fresnoy (2014). She was the 1st Runner-Up in the DST Women in Science Awards, 2017, and she was a Presidential Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and of the African Studies Association (ASA) in 2016. In 2017, Makhubu received a Mandela-Mellon fellowship at Harvard University. Makhubu is a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and was the chairperson of the Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2016-18. Her current research focuses on African popular culture, photography, interventionism, live art and socially-engaged art.
