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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand

Nicky is a writer and academic based in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she works in the Media Studies department at Wits University. Her research is primarily concerned with race and anxiety in the urban global south, with a particular interest in whiteness. She also writes and teaches on gender, popular culture and social geography. Nicky has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, part of Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Masters in Critical Theory from Sussex University. Her books include 'The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa', 'Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City' and 'Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa'.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
  • 2013–2016
    Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
  • 2012–2013
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg

Education

  • 2011 
    Birkbeck College, University of London, PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies
  • 2006 
    Sussex University , Masters in Critical Theory