Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa. Makhulu is co-editor of
Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010). She is a contributor to
Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004),
New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), and the author of
Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (2015), articles in
Anthropological Quarterly and
PMLA, as well as special issue guest editor for
South Atlantic Quarterly (115(1)) and special theme section guest editor of
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (36(1)). A new project, “Black and Bourgeois: Defining Race and Class After Apartheid,” examines the relationship between race and mobility in post-apartheid South Africa.