Prof. Curry: Eulogizing Apartheid's Dead

History and Ethnic Studies
Faculty Advisor
Dawne Curry
Contact Email dcurry2@unl.edu
Website
Advisor College:
Arts and Sciences
Potential Student Tasks
  • Create a bibliography;
  • Analyze oral historical sources;
  • Create a packet on Alexandran history;
  • Develop a digital project which showcases how death and mourning practices evolved in Alexandra.
Student Qualifications

Seeking a responsible, motivated scholar that wants to gain skills as an experiential learner.
Training, Mentoring, and Workplace Community

I will guide students every step of the way and conduct weekly sessions vis Zoom or in-person to clarify and to delve deeper into the subject of death in Alexandra, South Africa.
Available Positions
2

This project explores how Black South Africans created eulogies through songs, testimonies, poems, journalistic accounts and autobiographies to attain the right to mourn. During the rigid policy of racial segregation under apartheid, the White minority government restricted mourning practices so communities found other ways to honor the deceased.