Dr. Khwezi Mkhize
Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
Khwezi Mkhize (he/him/his) joined faculty at Duke University in 2023 after 8 years in South Africa. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he has a PhD in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His experiences between South Africa and the United States have been both intellectually and personally formative as he is deeply interested in diverse experiences and expressions of personhood and identity across space and time. A long-time fan of creative music and the arts in general, you’re most likely to find him listening to live music, in an art gallery, or exploring aspects of life in Durham and the triangle. Aside from working on an ongoing project on Black Archival Imagination, Mkhize has been working on his first book on empire, South Africa and black diasporic imaginaries. He is excited to join Duke’s Faculty in Residence and is eager to connect and be in community.