Preprint papers

Nicola Cloete, PhD, is a member of staff in the History of Art, Heritage Studies & Contemporary Curatorial Practice Department in the Wits School of Arts, Wits University. She is the recipient of the 2011 Harvard South Africa Fellowship, 2013 Brown University International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) funding grant and two Andrew W. Mellon research grants (2016 & 2019). She is a member of the African Studies journal editorial board and professional bodies including South African Visual Art Historians (SAVAH), the Association of Critical Heritage studies (ACHS), and Memory Studies Association (MSA). She is the author of Digestible Memories in South Africa’s Recent Past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved and The Politics of Unspeakability in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed and is currently working on a book project about slavery, race and nation in South Africa.