Assoc Prof Nomusa Makhubu

Nomusa Makhubu is an Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Cape Town. Nomusa forms part of the Environmental Humanities South (EHS) advisory board. She is the founder of Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) – an open-access platform for socially responsive arts. Makhubu was the recipient of the ABSA L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award in 2006 and the Prix du Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Le Fresnoy in 2014. She received the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) African Humanities Program fellowship award and was selected to be an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential fellow in 2016. In 2017, she was a UCT-Harvard Mandela fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Harvard University. In that same year, she was the First Runner Up for the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Women in Science Awards. Makhubu has published Creative Books and research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and book volumes.