Stephanus Muller is Professor of Musicology at Stellenbosch University and Director of the Africa Open Institute. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Delinking Encounters Project and the South African recipient of the British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship for the project South African Jazz Cultures and the Archive. In these capacities he manages, funds and supervises a range of important research initiatives. In 2015 he was awarded the Fowler-Hamilton Visiting Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford.