Serving through 2028
Prinisha Badassy holds a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and currently lectures in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include the social medico-legal history of infanticide and abortion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Natal; the study of the domain of the family and childhood; the political economy of reproduction; medico-jurisprudence; and gendered discourses of criminality.
She has also published on the history of Indian interpreters within the British Empire as well as, on the complicated, sometimes lethal, relationship between masters and servants in colonial Natal. She teaches on the historical processes of globalisation; historical transnational flows and networks that gave rise to the United States as a superpower during the twentieth century; the emergence and historical overview of African urbanism; modern South Africa; theory and methods for historical research and the history of sex. She currently serves as Editor of the South African Historical Journal, Exco member of the Southern African Historical Society Executive Council, council member of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), Editorial Board member of Historia, and list editor for the H-Africa Discussion Network. She served as Program Co-Chair of the 2020 African Studies Association annual conference.