Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, where she holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. Her accolades include winner of the 2020 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship, a fellowship at Harvard University Radcliffe Institute, the Alan Paton Award and the Christopher Award for her book A Human Being Died that Night. She was the recipient of the 2024 Templeton Prize. Her research interest is in historical trauma and its intergenerational repercussions and exploring what the “repair” of these transgenerational effects might mean. She has published extensively on victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, and on forgiveness and remorse.
