Prof Gobodo-Madikizela is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She holds the DSI-NRF Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest. She obtained her Bachelors and Honours degrees in Social Work and Psychology; a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Psychology. She served as Chair of the Human Rights Violation Committee of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Had a number of Fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, she held a part-time co-teaching position on the Politics of Trauma and Memory at Wellesley College, Radcliffe College and Brandeis University in the USA.