• Southern African History

• Agricultural and Environmental History

• Environmental Anthropology

• Political Ecology

• Land, Race, and Rural Societies

• Chemical Fertilizers and Agricultural Modernization

• Oral History and Archival Research

My PhD research explores the history of chemical fertilizers in South Africa between the early twentieth century and the end of apartheid. While synthetic fertilizers became central to agricultural modernization across much of the world, their history in South Africa remains largely unexplored. I am interested in understanding how fertilizers transformed farming practices, shaped relationships between the state and agricultural producers, and became embedded within broader political, social, and environmental struggles. My research examines how chemical fertilizers were introduced, promoted, and contested from the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 through to the late apartheid period. 

June 2026–present: PhD Researcher, Institute for European Global Studies; Department of History

2024–April 2026: Administrator, International Relations Office; Confucius Institute, University of the Western Cape

2022–2024: Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of the Western Cape

2021: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology, University of the Western Cape

2018–2020: Bachelor of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand; Majors: History and Anthropology; Minors: Geography, English, Politics, and Spanish