Zoe Samudzi

Zoé Samudzi is a sociologist with a PhD in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco and an MSc in health, community, and development from the London School of Economics. Her research is primarily concerned with German imperialism, the Ovaherero and Nama genocide and its afterlives, and settler colonialism in southern Africa (and coloniality across the continent more broadly). Other topics of research engagement include visuality and violence, the ethics of seeing and witnessing, human remains and restitution, biomedicalization and ancestry, genocide memory and denialism, and the spatialities of racecraft and dispossession.

Samudzi is also an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine, a popular magazine dedicated to psychoanalytic thinking. She is an art critic and writer whose work has appeared in the Funambulist, Protean Magazine, The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, Errant Journal, The New Republic, Architectural Review, ArtReview and other outlets.