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South African History and Culture

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Vidette Bester
University of Johannesburg
2
Nancy R Tapias Torrado
Université du Québec à Montréal
3
Ishva Minefee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
Martin Magidi
University of Cape Town
5
Nico Jooste
University of the Free State
6
Whitney N. Laster Pirtle
University of California, Merced
7
Lucille Heydenrych
University of South Africa
8
Andy Clarno
University of the Witwatersrand
9
Logan Govender
Human Sciences Research Council
10
Sean Bradley Power
Montpellier Business School

Rising Stars Papers

1
The rise and decline of apartheid: A study of political movements among the coloured people of South Africa, 1800-1985
New Contree|2024
41 cit.
2
Natal and Zululand from earliest times to 1910: a new history
New Contree|2024
38 cit.
3
ChatGPT and accounting in African contexts: Amplifying epistemic injustice
Critical Perspectives on Accounting|2024
14 cit.
4
On Joy and War: Black Feminism/Intersectionality
Annual Review of Sociology|2024
11 cit.
5
Unemployment, hustling, and waithood: exploring Zimbabwean urban male youth’s utilisation of ICT in soccer betting
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications|2024
10 cit.
6
Director and shareholder interactions at shareholder meetings: Compromising accountability in the service of colonialism
Critical Perspectives on Accounting|2024
10 cit.
7
Invited commentary: race, ethnicity, and racism in epidemiologic research—perspectives from Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP)
American Journal of Epidemiology|2024
7 cit.
8
The Transformation of Zimbabwe’s Informal Economy: From Petty Trade to Vibrant Sector
Journal of Asian and African Studies|2024
7 cit.
9
Exploring conflicting rationalities in densification policy and informal practices: Insights from two neighbourhoods in Cape Town
Habitat International|2025
7 cit.
10
Taking a stand while abroad? Towards a theory of MNCs’ sociopolitical activism in host countries
Journal of International Business Studies|2025
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Rhoda Mensah Darkwah
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
2
Peter Walshe
Beaumont Hospital
3
Nicole Van Staden
University of Johannesburg
4
Charné Lavery
University of the Witwatersrand
5
Willem H. Oliver
University of South Africa
6
Sampie Terreblanche
Stellenbosch University
7
Cornel Malan
University of Pretoria
8
Mirjana Ristic
University of Melbourne
9
Hongseok Lee
University at Albany, State University of New York
10
Tanja Bosch
University of Cape Town

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Behavioral Foundations of Representative Bureaucracy
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance|2022
26 cit.
2
Reading for Water
Interventions|2022
20 cit.
3
South African University Students’ Use of AI-Powered Tools for Engaged Learning
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
18 cit.
4
Sexual Harassment and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Roles of Gender, Perceived Supervisory Support, and Gender Equity Climate
Review of Public Personnel Administration|2022
14 cit.
5
Implementing auditor-general annual recommendations in South African municipalities: A situational analysis
Public Money & Management|2024
14 cit.
6
Gender representation in police organizations: Do upper‐level and street‐level female bureaucrats differ in their roles?
Governance|2023
13 cit.
7
Decolonizing Digital Methods
Communication Theory|2022
12 cit.
8
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes
Public Performance & Management Review|2022
9 cit.
9
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal
Media Culture & Society|2025
9 cit.
10
From in-person to online worship
Verbum et Ecclesia|2022
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jean Comaroff
University of Chicago
2
John Comaroff
Harvard University Press
3
Michael Johnston
Statistics New Zealand
4
Robert Ross
Leiden University
5
Roger Southall
University of the Witwatersrand
6
Carolyn Hamilton
University of Cape Town
7
Antjie Krog
University of the Western Cape
8
Clifford Shearing
University of Cape Town
9
Carli Coetzee
African Studies Centre
10
Cherryl Walker
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming
Public Culture|2000
1.5k cit.
2
Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony
American Ethnologist|1999
1.5k cit.
3
Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
Anthropological Forum|2012
1.3k cit.
4
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
Ethnohistory|1993
974 cit.
5
Law and disorder in the postcolony*
Social Anthropology|2007
771 cit.
6
Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1994
725 cit.
7
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1987
704 cit.
8
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1993
673 cit.
9
The Future of Policing
Law & Society Review|1996
631 cit.
10
Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.
Journal of American History|1993
572 cit.

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