Dr Babalwa Magoqwana

Dr Babalwa Magoqwana

Dr Babalwa Magoqwana is a founding director for the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University, a senior lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology Department in Nelson Mandela University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University. She has taught Sociology at Rhodes University and University of the Free State. She is a former president of the South African Sociological Association (SASA from 2017-2019). She is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar, a fellow with African Humanities Programme and UNISA – NRF-DST SARChI Chair in Social Policy. She is the recipient of the National Research Foundation/ First Rand Foundation Sabbatical Grant for her project on “Building a Woman-Centred Vernacular Sociology”. Her research on Maternal Legacies of Knowledge, is supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is published in different areas including the sociology of gender, sociology of work, labour sociology, higher education, and indigenous knowledge systems.