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Siphiwe Dube
Senior Lecturer
University of the Witwatersrand
Education/Degree:
1 Religion Studies Religion Studies (University of Toronto)
About
Siphiwe Dube is a Senior Lecturer and former HoD in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is an author of numerous interdisciplinary articles and book chapters (and also supervises) on a range of topics covering African politics and religion, decoloniality, feminisms, post-colonial literature, race, religion and masculinities, religion and identity politics, religion and popular culture, and transitional justice. His current three projects focus on African Political Theology, the Religious New Right in post-apartheid South Africa, and a multi-institutional collaboration on Rethinking Liberation Theologies. He is a United World College (Atlantic) alumnus; a former NRF-DST Scarce Skills Development Postdoctoral Fellow; a former Africa Fellow at IASH, University of Edinburgh; former Senior Fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana, and a South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF )rated scholar.
Current Work
My research and teaching focuses on three areas: African Politics and Religion (African Political Theology), Gender and Race (Masculinities), and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Decoloniality). My research on gender and race focuses on analysing Christian masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa through a critical race theory perspective that highlights gender and race as significant in informing various political relationships in the country. My research on African Politics and Religion has three concurrent research projects that focus on African Political Theology, the Christian New Right in post-apartheid South Africa, and Rethinking Liberation Theologies in Post-apartheid South Africa. With respect to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), my focus is currently on engaging meaningfully with decoloniality in the teaching of Political Studies, including the ways in which my teaching on Black Consciousness Thought is affected by notions of vulnerability.
Research Area Keyword(s)
African Political Theology, Black Consciousness, Critical Black Thought, Critical Masculinities, decoloniality