Dr Nikiwe Solomon (Anthropology)

Nikiwe Solomon is a lecturer in the Social Anthropology Department at UCT and is currently pursuing a PhD in Environmental Humanities. Her PhD research focuses on the Kuils River in Cape Town, and its entanglement with social and political worlds. Nikiwe’s research interests lie in exploring and understanding the relationship between humans and the environment in cultural production, and broadly how human and ecological well-being and issues of sustainability are entangled with politics, economics and technology. Nikiwe teaches various topics at the Honours level and Environmental Anthropology at the Master’s Level.