Prof Siphokazi Magadla

Prof. Siphokazi Magadla is the Dean of Humanities at Rhodes University. She is the author of the book Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2023; Routledge, 2024), which won the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Best Non-Fiction Monograph; the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Book Award, and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Humanities Book Award in the Established Scholar category. 

She is the co-editor of two books and one journal special issue: Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili: Theorising South African Women’s Intellectual Legacies (Mandela University Press, 2024); “Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s Questions on Gender, Sex and Political Economy” (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and Ubuntu: Curating the Archive(UKZN Press, 2014).

Prof. Magadla serves on the boards of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Advisory Board of the Feminist Reimagining of International Studies series (FeRIS) of the Bristol University Press; the University of Wisconsin Press Series: Women and Gender in Africa; and the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Program. She is a mentor of the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows. She served in the Presidential High-Level Review Panel of the State Security Agency in 2018.