School of Social Sciences

Vukile Khumalo

Vukile Khumalo

Vukile Khumalo Position Lecturer
Discipline History 
Degrees
  • Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – United States of America.
  • MA, University of Natal, Durban.
  • BA Honours, University of Natal, Durban.
   
   
   

Contact Information

Phone: 031 260 1409

Email: khumalov@ukzn.ac.za

Office Address: Room 116, Howard College, Memorial Tower Building

Current research projects:

  1. Rural transformation and the making of a post-apartheid rural citizen
  2. Reconfiguration of the idea of a public sphere and public violence in KwaZulu-Natal, 1900 – 1910. 

Books

  • The ANC Century: A KwaZulu-Natal Chapter, 1900 – 2012 (forthcoming)
  • Provisional Title: Power and Public Discourse: Umvoti mission reserve and the politics of economic experiments in nineteenth century Natal, 1850–1900 (forthcoming)
  • Provisional Title: Epistolary networks and political imagination in 19th century KwaZulu-Natal.

Published Articles

2010
 
  Editorial: History and Heritage, Journal of Natal and Zulu History, vol. 28 (2010)
   
  History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal, Journal of Natal and Zulu History Vol. 28. (2010) (With Ntokozo Zungu, Ethekwini Municipality)
2009  
  The Post-Apartheid Condition and the Dilemmas of Imagining a Nation in South Africa in Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (ed.) Discrimination and Tolerance in Historical Perspective (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2009)
2008
 
  Foreword and consultant editor, Countries of the World: South Africa (Washington: National Geographic Society, 2008)
2007
 
 Excavating a Usable Past: the Politics of Christian Missions in South
Africa with Special focus on KwaZulu-Natal, 1850 – 1910, in Harris, M
(ed.) Sights and Insight Interactive Images of Wider Europe and the Wider World (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2007)
2006  
  “Ekukhanyeni Letter-writers: An inquiry into epistolary networks and
political imagination in KwaZulu–Natal, 1890 – 1900”, Barber, K (ed.) Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2006) 
2005  
  Political rights, land ownership and contending forms of representation in Colonial Natal, 1860 – 1900, The Journal of Natal and Zulu History, vol. 21 (2005) 
2003  
  “The Class of 1856 and the politics of cultural production(s)” in Draper Jonathan A., (ed.) The Eye of the Storm: Essays on Bishop John William Colenso 150 Years after his Consecration as Bishop of Natal in 1853 (London: Sheffield Academic Press & Cluster Publications, 2003) 

Selected Awards

  • 2006 – 2010: Research Development Initiative for Black Academics (REDIBA) (National Research Foundation).
  • 2005: University of KwaZulu-Natal Competitive Research Fellowship.
  • 2001 – 2002: International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (Social Science Research Council & American Council of Learned Societies).
  • 2000 – 2001: Prestige Scholarship Award (National Research Foundation).
  • 2000: Pre-dissertation Research Award (International Institute, University of Michigan).
  • 2000: African Initiative Fellowship (Center for African-American and African Studies.
  • 1999 – 2000: International Institute Fellowship
  • 1998 – 1999: African Initiative Fellowship (Center for African-American and African Studies) 

Professional Positions

Editor of the Journal of Natal & Zulu History

Contributing Editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Teaching

  • Culture & History: 19th & 20th century KwaZulu-Natal
  • Topics in African History (East & West Africa)
  • Critical Approaches to Oral & Public Histories

Current Graduate Students

  • Nosipho Thabethe

    • Title of Thesis: Inheritance from a time of Conflict in South Africa: The Woman behind Hugo Bartel Speak Out
  • Mwelela Cele (co-supervised with Dr. Thembisa Waetjen)
    • Title of thesis: Consolidation of common purpose: A critical history of the Bantu social centre, 1933 – 1960.
  • Mthunzi Zungu

    • A history of African soccer in Natal from 1948 – 1994 with special focus on AmaZulu Football Club
  • Vashna Jagarnath (co-supervised with Prof. Keith Breckenridge)
    • Title of thesis: From South Africa to the World: The politics of writing and the making of the Mahatma, 1893 – 1914.
  • Mduduzi Percival Ngonyama

    • Title of thesis: Redefining Amakhosi Authority from ‘personal to Territorial’: An Historical Analysis of the Limitations of Colonial Boundaries on African Socio-political Relations in Natal’s Maphumulo Region, 1980 – 1910

Community Involvement

  • Council member of the National Heritage Council (NHC), South Africa