Biography

I was born in South Africa in 1994, as the country transitioned into an independent democracy. Issues of systemic inequality have shaped the way I engage with the world. I studied an undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town. There, I became passionate about teaching through the Thethani Debating League, coaching debating to high-school children in under-resourced schools around the Western Cape. I also fell into and in love with the discipline of archaeology, and synergized the two to think critically about the past and present in southern Africa.In 2016, I returned to my home town of Johannesburg to study an Honours degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. I worked to better understand concepts of monstrosity through the paintings of the San. My Masters explored the frontier of the Northern Cape province, challenged by marginal aridity and harsh conditions, low population, vast distances, and historical poverty and socioeconomic disparity. This research has directed my PhD, which will explore pastoral transhumance and sustainable land use in arid regions, in a context of colonization in frontier spaces. I hope to extend my research to interact with modern issues of climate change on a global scale.

Previous Education

University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Archaeology 2020
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Archaeology 2016