Introduction

As Associate Professor in the Umthombo Centre for Student Success, I teach and design undergraduate cross-disciplinary courses in the social sciences, run writing circles for postgraduate students,  and supervise postgraduate students in Anthropology and Education. I also contribute to curriculum development across the Faculty, with a particular interest in designing curricula for inclusive education. This ties into my role as Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, through which I oversee undergraduate teaching and learning in the Humanities Faculty.

My main research interests centre on the effects of coloniality on contemporary knowledge systems - much of what I research tries to answer the question of what we do with, and how we move beyond, that which we have inherited, including (but not limited to) in higher education.

Selected Publications

• Morreira, S. (2017). Steps towards decolonial Higher Education in Southern Africa? Epistemic disobedience in the Humanities. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 52(3), 287-301
• Morreira, S., Luckett, K., Kumalo, S. H., & Ramgotra, M. (Eds.). (2021). Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice. Routledge.
• Morreira, S. (2022). Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe. Anthropology Southern Africa, 45(3), 153-166
• Morreira, S., Taru, J., & Truyts, C. (2021). Place and pedagogy: Using space and materiality in teaching social science in Southern Africa. In Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (pp. 137-153). Routledge
• Chekero, T., & Morreira, S. (2020). Mutualism despite ostensible difference: huShamwari, kuhanyisana, and conviviality between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa. Africa Spectrum, 55(1), 33-49.