Jill E. Kelly is a historian of gender, violence, and traditional authority in South Africa and the author of To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Authority, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 (Michigan State University Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018). Her current manuscript project is an intellectual history of rural women’s anti-apartheid activism. She also is PI on a new Global Oral History of PEPFAR. Her research has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholar Award. She is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA and a Research Associate at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
