Unisan awarded Presidential Fellowship at American university

Unisan Natalia Molebatsi has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Fellowship at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States of America. This award bears testament to her outstanding achievements in scholarship, creativity and leadership in the humanities.

 Molebatsi is currently pursuing a PhD at Northwestern, where her research focuses on Black/Pan-African feminist poetry and poetics, literature, cultural communication, and performance. Molebatsi is a researcher and lecturer in the College of Human Sciences’ Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies (DGSS) under Talent Management’s Academic Career Building Programme (ACBP).

With more than 20 years of experience, Molebatsi has established herself as a leading voice in poetry and feminist performance. Her work bridges academic inquiry and artistic expression, and her extensive publication record includes articles, essays and award-winning poetry collections that have contributed significantly to academic and public discourse.

The Presidential Fellowship at Northwestern University is the highest honour the university can award to PhD candidates who demonstrate exceptional promise and impact in their field of study. Molebatsi’s selection for this prestigious honour underscores her international reputation and pioneering contributions to communication sciences, community engagement, Pan-African feminist poetics, and gender and sexuality studies. Through this platform and her role at DGSS, she will further her research while engaging with a global academic community dedicated to creative innovation, scholarly rigour and social justice.  

* Submitted by the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies