Emily Mashonganyika

Emily Mashonganyika is CCNY Pre-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMA. She is currently completing a PhD in sociology at the University of Cape Town. Her research explores the factors that shape women's everyday clothing choices as a means of expression and negotiation of different forms of humanity. Emily’s work engages with questions of decoloniality and contributes to debates on gender, globalization, and the complexities of everyday relationships. As a social scientist, she examines the intersections of fashion, society, culture, and identity. Emily holds a BA of Technology Education degree from Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT), an MA in Education from Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe, and Advanced Diplomas in Clothing and Textiles, as well as Technology Education. Before joining UCT in 2020, she worked as a teacher in Zimbabwe.

Africa AI Ethics: Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA