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Our department has highly qualified and professionally trained academic and administrative staff. To find out more about their individual research interests, or if you would like to make personal contact with someone, please click on their name in the list below for details and contact information.

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Permanent Staff

 

NameRoleAreas of Specialization/Research
鈥婸rof Zahraa McDonaldAssociate Professor: HODIslamic Education, Qualification Frameworks, Religion Education, Citizenship, RPL.
鈥婦r Mohamed Shahid MatheeSenior LecturerIslamic Law, Timbuktu Manuscripts (fatwas and chronicles), Social and Intellectual History; Muslim Textual Studies; Biblical Studies as Historiography.
鈥婸rof Elina HankelaAssociate ProfessorChristianity in Contemporary Contexts, Ethnographic Theology, Liberation Theologies, Religion and Social Justice (including xenophobia and migration), Qualitative Research Methods in Religion.
鈥婸rof Eugene BaronProfessorLiberation Theologies, Mission Theologies and Missiology (including Narrative Missiology), Pentecostalism, Religion and Environmental Degradation (Eco-theology), Decolonial and Contextual Theologies in African Christianity.
鈥婱s Aaishah LombardLecturerIslamic Studies, Muslim Lived Realities in Contemporary South Africa, Islamic Liberation Theology, Religion and Social Justice, Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods in Religion.
鈥婸rof Maria Frahm-ArpExecutive DirectorPentecostalism in South Africa, Gender and Religion, Religion, Politics, and Economics, Prophetic Pentecostalism, Religion and Social Issues in Contemporary Africa.
鈥�Ms Charlene LouwDepartmental Secretary

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

 

NameRoleAreas of Specialization/Research
鈥婦r Anjofui Patience AnegubPostdoctoral Research FellowMigration Studies, Community Development, Religion and Development, African Pentecostalism, Christianity and Social Integration.
鈥婦r Admire ThonjePostdoctoral Research FellowSociology of Religion, Religion and Migration, African Pentecostalism, Affect Theory and Transnationalism in Religious Studies, Religion and Belonging in Marginalized Communities, and Sociology of Sport and Identity.
鈥婦r Ishaya AnthonyPostdoctoral Research FellowPractical Theology (especially Preaching), Religious Media, Religious Education, Ecumenism, Anglican Studies, Religion and African Socio-Political Development (e.g., AU Agenda 2063), Colonial and Postcolonial Religious Contexts.

Researchers

NameRoleAreas of Specialization/Research
鈥婦r George NcheResearcherReligion and Ecology, Environmental Ethics, Religion and Climate Change Communication, and African Indigenous Religion and Environmental Thought.

Tutors

NameRoleAreas of PhD Research
Ms 鈥婰ungile NgubanePodcast and Social MediaAfrican Initiated Christianity and Liberation Theologies.
鈥婱s Karabo RikhotsoTutorReligion and Identity Formation, and African Initiated Christianity.