Projects

Within global urban historiography there has been no detailed exploration of the nature and consequences of mingling across ethnic, racial or national boundaries in cities strongly socially and spatially...

Modern medicine aims to improve our current abilities to diagnose and treat human diseases via a more personal health assessment. The success stories have created a moment to convert healthcare processes,...

The ability to characterize cell types and their genetic programs across tissues, have profoundly accelerated through the development of single-cell sequencing methods. These innovations in molecular methods...

This project looks back at history via the short story genre. It focusses on historical events of the 19th and early 20th century in the Natal province. Most of these mammoth historical events were monumentalised...

Most species occur in subdivided (fragmented) populations. For many years I have been studying local adaptation in such populations. In my individual project I want to bring this to a new level, by exploring...

The purpose of this project is to analyze the construction of black identity in 21st – century France. It questions the premises of a whole body of knowledge that still subscribes to the French Republic’s...

I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the “Genocide and Hope Quartet”, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi;...

The germline functions to perpetuate life and relay genetic and epigenetic information across generations. Errors during the germline specification cause devastating and long-lasting effects. Our knowledge...

In this project, for the first time, the history of early Israelite Religion is based on the results of historical research on the emergence and development of the two states Judah and Israel. Accordingly,...

The aim research project is to find new ways to prevent and treat implant associated infections. This is a science-driven innovation focused project that has the potential to highly impact the biomaterials...

Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts. Conceptualising inhospitability as being unwelcoming and not generous,...

Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a formative moment in Middle Eastern and international history, reshaping Israeli and Lebanese politics, society, and culture; the fate of Palestinian self-determination;...