Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and Research Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation, and the South African National Research Chair (SARChI) in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University. Her work is in the fields of trauma studies and research on the psychoanalytic interpretation of remorse and forgiveness. She was awarded a B-rating from the National Research Foundation, and she is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and an honorary member of the South African Psychoanalytic Association.
Her recent honours include the Templeton Prize, 2024; the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award, 2021; Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, 2020-2021; Honorary Doctor of Laws from Rhodes University, 2019; and Honorary Doctor of Theology from the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, 2017. Since 2017, she has joined the faculty at Queen’s University, Belfast as Research Associate and Global Scholar, affiliated with the Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.
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