Nelson Mandela drops his ballot into a voting box

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COOL CLASSES: “After the Sunset: Lessons in Transition to Peace: The South African Example”

Taught by Associate Professor of Anthropology Zolani Ngwane and Friend in Residence and Visiting Instructor Nozizwe Routledge, this anthropology course engages with issues, theories, and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study.

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. See what other courses the Department of Anthropology is offering.

Photo of Nelson Mandela casting his vote during South Africa’s first all-race elections in 1994 by John Parkin/AP.

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Visual Culture, Arts, and Media

Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.

All four class years were represented in the recent exhibit 20/20 Vision, as were 15 different majors across disciplines. The art came in many different forms, including this wearable piece. Photo: Arshiya Bhayana '22.

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Faculty

Faculty – Susanna Wing

A course on Francophone African literature as an undergrad led Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing to an M.A. in African area studies and a Ph.D. in political science. She joined the Haverford faculty in 2002, and has become an internationally recognized and widely published expert on Mali.

Read Office Hour in the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Wing's office in Hall Building features a hand-drawn map of Africa, papers from a 1960 conference in West Africa that belong to Professor Emeritus of Political Science Harvey Glickman, and these toy cars and trucks that were handmade in Mali. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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