{"id":19433,"date":"2019-08-19T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=19433"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:20:05","slug":"natasha-erlank","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/natasha-erlank\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Erlank"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>I trained as an historian, doing my undergraduate, honours and master degrees at the University of Cape Town (UCT). My doctorate was completed at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests lie principally in the history of the relationship between gender and mainline African Christianity, within the broader context of colonialism (which operates both as a historical framing and a theoretical undergirding). To date I have principally worked on Southern African, but my future research trajectory includes examining similar issues across the African continent. I have published in the <em>Gender &amp; History<\/em>, <em>Feminist Studies<\/em>, <em>African Studies Review<\/em> and the <em>Journal of Southern African Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also work in the field of public history. I have had a long-running project on the construction of history in Sophiatown. As a publically-engaged historian, I am concerned with the contemporary politics of memory in South Africa, a research interest which aligns with debates about public history. While some of my interest in this regard is expressed in research, I have also been active as a consultant on public history and memory projects in South Africa, most recently in relation to a Living Women\u2019s History Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erlank, N. and Morgan, K.L. Sophiatown. <em>African Studies<\/em> 15.1 (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erlank, N. \u2018Routes to Sophiatown\u2019, <em>African Studies<\/em> 15.1 (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erlank, N. \u201cThe White Wedding: Affect and Economy in South Africa in the Early Twentieth Century.\u201d <em>African Studies Review<\/em> 57.2 (2014): 29\u201350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soske, J., Lissoni, A. and N. Erlank, \u2018Debating Struggle History after Apartheid\u2019, Lissoni, A.,J. Soske, N. Erlank, N. Nieftagodien and O. Badsha (editors), <em>One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today<\/em>, Wits University Press: Johannesburg, 2012, 29\u2010 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erlank, N. \u2018Christianity and African Nationalism in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century\u2019, in Lissoni et al (editors), <em>One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today<\/em>, Wits University Press: Johannesburg, 2012, 77\u201096.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonthuys, E. and Erlank, Modes of (In)tolerance: South African Muslims and Same\u2010Sex Relationships, <em>Culture, Health and Sexuality<\/em> 14:3\u20104 (2012) 269\u2010283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Natasha","cu_people_last_name":"Erlank","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[67],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-19433","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"natasha.erlank@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/www.uj.ac.za\/faculties\/humanities\/department-of-historical-studies\/Pages\/staff\/Dr-Natasha-Erlank.aspx","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19433\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}