
Dr Lonwabo Makapela
POSITION:
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Lonwabo Makapela Makapela
A Postdoctoral Scholar (ESKAS) at the University of Bern in Switzerland, and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. She is also a Fulbright Alumna from Vanderbilt University, Nashville in the USA, and was previously recognised as one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in the Civil Society category. Her research in organisational behaviour, intersectionality, identity work, embodiment, and aesthetic labour, overlaps with the work of Dr. Babar Dharani and Prof. Kurt April, with whom she continues to collaborate and publish.