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Brief Biography (English)
Carolyn Hamilton is a South African Anthropologist and Historian. She is professor and she holds a National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Archive and Public Culture based in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and has published widely on the pre-industrial history of South Africa. Her research areas include the ethnography and history of the archive; the history of pre-industrial South Africa; and the anthropology of the past in the present. She is a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, a member of the Public Life of Ideas Network and successor to the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project which she led.
