Chana Teeger

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Chana is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and is affiliated with Harvard University's Committee on African Studies and its Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Chana completed her BA in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and her MA in Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her major research interests revolve around issues of collective memory and commemoration. In this vein, she has written about the construction of memory in the Apartheid Museum in South Africa as well as about the place of collective silences in processes of collective memory and forgetting (with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi). Moving from macro-social representations of the past to micro-social understandings of the past, Chana has studied how South Africans deploy the country's apartheid past to talk about current crime. Her dissertation continues with this micro-level focus by examining how apartheid is taught to -- and understood by -- South African learners.

02/27/2010

Research Interests

Culture, Collective Memory and Commemoration, Transitional Justice, South Africa

Previous Degrees

B.A., Philosophy & Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
M.A., Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
A.M., Sociology, Harvard University

Qualifying Paper Title

Collective Memories and Collective Fears: South Africans Narrate Crime against the Backdrop of Apartheid

Prospectus Title

Teaching Transformations: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Generation and Apartheid History Education

Committee

Mary Waters (Chair); Jocelyn Viterna; William Julius Wilson

Presentations and Publications

Miscellaneous Additional Information

Optional Sections on General Exams

Race and Ethnicity; Culture

Oral Exam Topic

Collective Memory and Commemoration

Contact

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