Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela wins the 2024 Templeton prize, one of the World’s Largest Individual Lifetime Achievement Awards
Dr. Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor and South African National Research Foundation’s Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University. Her work on the processes of trauma and forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa constructed a globally recognized model for social healing in the aftermath of conflict, a model she calls “the reparative quest.”
Dr. Gobodo-Madikizela was the Institute for African Development Distinguished Africanist Scholar for fall 2016 and at the time served as a senior research professor in trauma, memory, and forgiveness at the University of the Free State.
Her DAS lecture during her Cornell visit: What Does it Mean to be Human in the Aftermath of Historical Trauma? A Quest for the Empathic Witness