Stellenbosch University's Delecia Davids receives Einstein Fellowship

Delecia Davids, a Cape Town academic, has become the first South African to be awarded the prestigious Einstein Fellowship. This fully funded opportunity, offered by the Einstein Forum in collaboration with the Wittenstein Foundation, supports exceptional young intellectuals pursuing interdisciplinary work beyond their previous specialisation.

Davids, a lecturer and teacher educator in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, will live and work in the garden cottage of Einstein’s summer house in Caputh, Germany for six months. Her Einstein fellowship project, titled "Reparative storytelling, memory, and identity", will examine the stories of people who identify as Coloured in South Africa and place them in conversation with Germany’s practices of public remembrance.

This project was inspired by personal loss and her work in reconciliation and the Khampepe Commission.

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