Research
Research Projects
​DDT Relations: Tracing chemical alterlife in South African malaria control
2025 - 2030 University of Cape Town
A multi-sited ethnographic project to explore DDT across three sites in South Africa: communities that receive indoor residual spray with DDT; researchers studying DDT's intergenerational effects; and policymakers who arbitrate, procure, and implement its usage in malaria control. Funded by the Wellcome Trust's Early Career Award.
Curating Conception: Race and Reproduction in South Africa
To be published by Rutgers University Press in 2026
Curating Conception explores how assisted reproduction in South Africa is shaped by raced, classed, and gendered forms of gatekeeping. Drawing on ethnographic research, the book traces how various actors and orders curate conception—reproducing colonial legacies while managing uncertain futures through technologies of care, control, and hopeful, yet haunted, potential.
The Handbook of DOHaD and Society
The Past, Present, and Future of Biosocial Collaboration
Published open access by Cambridge University Press in 2024
Research in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has had a fundamental impact on our understanding of how environmental experiences and contexts influence the development of health and disease over the entire lifecourse. Covering a wide range of geographic regions, this volume includes an overview of the field, key concepts, and cutting-edge examples of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Constructing a timeline of racial classification in South Africa
2024 - 2025 Stellenbosch University
Developing an infographic depicting the history of shifting racial classifications in South Africa, from 1652 to present. Funded as part of CIRCoRe Workstream IV on Race, Human Categorisation and Science
Impressionable Bodies: Epigenetic models of plasticity in the Global South
2020 - 2021 Deakin University
This project investigated how epigenetics, the science of how environmental factors switch genes on or off, is reshaping notions of the body, heredity and biological plasticity in the global South.