Projects in Women's Studies

• Kim Miller
  Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Art History

  Selective silencing and the shaping of memory in post-apartheid South African visual culture

  Proposal

  I would like to have a Wheaton Research Partnership student to help me with research and editing tasks associated with my book project, Selective Silencing and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid South African Visual Culture.

  The book examines the extent to which women’s participation in the struggle for democracy is represented and remembered, and in many cases forgotten, in contemporary South African visual culture and commemorative sites. The work would involve analysis of primary sources – such as material that was banned during apartheid, available on the Aluka database, bibliography formatting, and editing.  I am looking for a student who is equipped with good research skills, who is detail-oriented, and ideally someone who is capable of doing feminist analysis of text and image.

  Academic year: 2011-2012