Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

Dr G Sauti

College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities
Department: Anthropology and Archaeology
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 6218
E-mail: esautig@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD Anthropology (Wits University, 2012)
  • MA, Social Anthropology (Wits University, 2007)
  • BA Honors International Relations (Wits University, 2002)
  • BA Social Anthropology, International Relations, Law (Wits University, 2001)

Currently teaching

  • Digital Anthropology
  • Black Tax
  • Gender
  • Race, poverty and land
  • Decolonization and Africanization

Fields of academic interests

  • E-Learning
  • Land Redistribution
  • Gender-based violence
  • Polygamous advances through social media
  • Race and identity on social media platforms
  • Teenage mothers and ODEL education
  • Knowledge and Power
  • African cultures and the Law

Books

  • Gloria Sauti (2019) Chapter 5 in Power, Development and Institutions in Africa Edited by Siphamandla Zondi & Serges Djoyou Kamga, Pan-African University Press, ISBN: 978-1-943533-39-8, LCCN: 2019933037
  • Gloria Sauti (2019) Chapter 11, Old-Age Cash Grant Pay-out Days, How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa, in Rethinking and unthinking development, Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Edited by Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York. ISBN  1789201772, 9781789201772.
  • Sauti, G. (2021), "Perspectives on Effective E-tutoring that Motivates and Enhances Students’ Learning through Learner Management Systems and Social Media*", Hoffman, J. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) International Perspectives in Online Instruction (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120210000040010

Journal articles

  • Gloria Sauti (2019) The Limitations of Legalism and Identity Labels in Post-Apartheid South, Africanus Journal of Development Studies, Volume 49. No. 1.
  • Gloria Sauti, (2018) Patriarchy and Poverty and the Effect it has had on Land Ownership and Housing of the Women: A Case Study in Badirile South Africa, Africanus Journal of Development Studies, Volume 48. No. 1.
  • Gloria Sauti and Mamadou Lo Thiam (2018) The Land-Grabbing Debacle: An Analysis of South Africa and Senegal, Ufahamu Journal of African Studies (University of California - UCLA) USA, Volume 41, Issue 1.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Post-Doctorial Fellowship (Unisa, 2014 - 2016)
  • Trans Disciplinary Post-Doctoral Fellow Coordinator (Unisa, College of Graduate Studies, 2015)
  • Award: Certificate of Achievement on Land Policy and Development, Trainers ofTrainers Workshop (Organization: IDEP, United Nations, Senegal, Dakar, 2015)
  • United Nations Scholarship (2015)

Projects

  • International Decolonial Community from 2015. I was part of the decolonial Summer School that was organized by the University of South Africa.
  • I was part of a community engagement project “Decolonizing Notions on African Hair.”  It resulted in my book that is being edited “Societal Stigmatizations of African Hair and Hair Textures - Does social media Enhance or Eradicate such Phenomena? An Analysis on Struggles to Improve, Accept, Humanize and Liberate African Hair.’