Rebekah Lee

Associate Professor in African Studies

Affiliation: African Studies Centre
Expert in: Cities and migration, Health and migration
Geographic focus: South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa

Rebekah is an ethnographer and historian of modern South Africa, and of health and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa. Interdisciplinarity is a core intellectual orientation - her research explores the productive interface of history with other disciplinary traditions, including anthropology, urban studies, development studies, human geography and public health. Rebekah has published on gender, migration, urbanisation, religion, health and the family. She is currently completing her third book, on death and memory in modern South Africa. Rebekah is also undertaking a new research project focused on the everyday experiences of road safety and road danger in Africa. She is interested in building an interdisciplinary, trans-sectoral, trans-temporal, and multi-sited approach to the subject.