The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Vanessa Chen, Min’enhle Ncube
and Suzana Sousa as recipients of the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards. Chen, a
South African student in the Department of Historical Studies, and Ncube, a Zimbabwean
student in Social Anthropology, are both pursuing PhDs at University of Cape Town. Sousa
is an Angolan student in History and a doctoral fellow at the Centre for Humanities
Research at the University of the Western Cape. Support from ACIP’s Ivan Karp Awards
will allow each of them to do significant research for their dissertations. Chen will work in
Dutch archives for her dissertation, Collecting and Convening the Visual and Material
Cultural History of Chinese Convicts, Exiles and “Free Blacks” at the Cape (circa 1654-
1838). Ncube will conduct fieldwork in Zambia for her project Mapping the Ethics of Care
Associated with Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Healthcare Infrastructures in Zambia.
Sousa’s award will support her research at Angolan museums for her project “Angola
Avante?” Making and Contesting Political Narratives of the Nation through Art and Visual
Culture.

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