Professor Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi

Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is an Associate Professor in English and Director of the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class. Her research interests include Black intellectual history and Caribbean, African, and African American literatures. Her work has been published in esteemed journals like Small Axe, Callaloo, and The Black Scholar. As a member of the Other Universals Collective, she explores intellectual exchange across Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South Asia. Currently, her research focuses on the print cultures of Black migrants to Cape Town pre-anti-colonial nationalism. Collis-Buthelezi holds positions as a research associate at the Institute of Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and as a senior research fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study. She also serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Center of Global Black Studies at the University of Miami and the Association of Global Political Thought at Harvard.