Prof. Zimitri Erasmus

Visiting Professor

Zimitri.Erasmus(at)wits.ac.za

Biography

Zimitri Erasmus is Professor in Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.  Her book, Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa (2017), was nominated for two awards. It continues her long scholarly engagement with the commonly held assumption that ‘race’ is self-evident and permanent by bringing together her thinking about the ways in which ‘race’ works. She is the recipient of several international fellowships. Among her additional key interests are ‘race’ and bioethics; Black radical thought; and innovative, socially just pedagogies that engage Writing Intensive and Epistolary methods.