Head of CFMS Professor Adam Haupt, now a B2 Researcher

22 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022

From left to right: Prof Adam Haupt with Monishia Schoeman (aka Eavesdrop), Bradley Lodewyk (aka King Voue) & Prof Quentin Williams (UWC)

The South African National Research Foundation  has Awarded Prof Adam Haupt, Head of The Centre for Film and Media, a B2 Research Rating!

According to the NRF, the B category and B2 sub-category are defined as:

B: Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.

B2: All or the overriding majority of reviewers are firmly convinced that the applicant enjoys considerable international recognition for the high quality and impact of his/her recent research outputs.

Prof Haupt’s research focuses on hip hop activism – which includes debates about language, race, gender and representation – as well as debates about technology and intellectual property. His 2019 book – Neva Again: Hip-Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-apartheid South Africa edited with Quentin Williams (UWC), Emile Jansen (Heal the Hood Project) and H. Samy Alim (UCLA) – employs aspects of autoethnography and hiphopography in order tell the story of hip hop activism in Cape Town.

 The book project is unusual because it is accompanied by visual art as well as an EP, which Haupt co-produced with hip-hop artist Bradley Lodewyk (aka b-boy King Voue; ex Brasse vannie Kaap). Haupt continues to work with Professors Williams and Alim in collaboration with Emile Jansen and Heal the Hood Project on the Drietalige Woordeboek van Kaaps (DWK) and a new scholarly book about Afrikaaps.

He is also Coordinating Editor of Global Hip Hop Studies with Prof J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork).  Haupt’s work as a scholar has crossed from arts journalism and scholarly research to activism and creative collaboration and performance. For example, see his 2018 performance with Cape hip hop artists Eavesdrop (aka Monishia Schoeman) and Bradley Lodewyk at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin):