Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Education
Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) 2017 - 2020, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) (2020)
Ph.D., The University of Chicago (2003)
M.A., The University of Chicago (1996)
B.A., Columbia University (1994)
Overview
Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies and Core Faculty in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance and corporations, 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) and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home (2015). She is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), author of articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (115(1)) and special theme section guest editor for Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (36(2)). A new project, South Africa After the Rainbow (in preparation), examines the relationship between race and mobility in postapartheid South Africa and has been supported with an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
In The News
Graduate School Announces 9 Dean's Award Recipients for 2022 - 3/23/2022
11 Duke-Authored Books on Global Perspectives - 7/19/2021
Anne-Maria Makhulu: South Africa After the Rainbow - 12/14/2020
Designing Better Healthcare at Duke - 8/11/2020
Awards & Honors
Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. The Graduate School. - 2022
Faculty Advancement Seed Grant. Office of Faculty Advancement. - 2021
Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant . Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. - 2019
NEH Grant Fellowship for Project: “The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid”. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). - 2017
Selected Publications
Phillips, L., A. M. Makhulu, A. Masola, G. Vahed, and M. C. Webb. “30 Years of Democracy: 1994–2024 Roundtable.” South African Historical Journal 76, no. 4 (January 1, 2024): 535–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2556153.
Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition.” Cultural Anthropology 37, no. 2 (May 23, 2022). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.2.06.
Makhulu, Anne-Maria, and Christen Smith. “#CiteBlackWomen.” Cultural Anthropology 37, no. 2 (May 23, 2022). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.2.01.
Makhulu, Anne-Maria. “Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler.” Anthropological Quarterly 91, no. 4 (2018): 1451–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2018.0075.
Selected Grants
Gridding Solar: Growth Futures after Fossil Fuels in Bangladesh 2024 - 2027
The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility and Ressentiment After Apartheid 2017 - 2018
An Inquiry into Market Speculation in Johannesburg and New York 2011 - 2012
Southern Africa's Place-on-the-Continent, Africa's Place-in-the-World 2008 - 2009
Selected Courses
SOCIOL 171: Anthropologists in the Workplace: Applied Anthropology
RELIGION 503S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives
POLSCI 589S: The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives
ICS 522S: Atlantic Worlds