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Dr S Van Wyk

Senior Lecturer | College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities | Department: Anthropology and Archaeology

Tel: 012 429 2047
Campus: Muckleneuk
Building: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (WMM)
Office: 4-152

  • BSocSci (Hons) Social Anthropology (University of Pretoria)
  • MSocSci Social Anthropology (University of Pretoria)
  • PhD in History (University of Cambridge)

  • Anthropology M&D Coordinator
  • Supervising Master’s and PhD Students
  • Ritual Life in a Disabling Society (APY3713)
  • Introduction to Anthropological Research (APY4801)
  • Theorising Anthropology (APY4813)

    • Anthropology of development
    • Economic anthropology
    • Economic history
    • Institutional history
    • Intellectual history
    • Marxism
    • Property & ownership regimes

    • Anthropology of Disability
    • Apartheid
    • Economic Anthropology
    • Historical Anthropology
    • Urban Development

    • Sharp, J.S. and Van Wyk, J.S. 2015. ‘Beyond the Market: White workers in Pretoria’, in Hart, Economy for and against Democracy, New York: Berghahn Books.

    • Laterza, V. and Van Wyk, S. 2016. How did the main parties do in the 2016 municipal elections? ANC, DA and EFF in numbers. Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa. https://www.eisa.org.za/eu/eu2016main.htm
    • Sharp, J.S. and Van Wyk, J.S. Forthcoming. The most intractable Whites in South Africa? Ethnography of a Boere-Afrikaner settlement. Africa.

    • NRF-FirstRand Sabbatical Grant, 2018-21
    • CHS Excellence in Module Design, University of South Africa, 2017
    • Member of Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA)

    Engaged scholarship project with Bakgatla baga Mosetlha at Makapanstad