Nomusa Makhubu is a professor in art history at the University of Cape Town. She is the Director of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) and founder of Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) – an open access platform for socially responsive arts. Makhubu was the Deputy Dean for Transformation in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town (2020-2022). She received the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) African Humanities Program fellowship award and was selected to be an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential fellow in 2016. In 2017, she was a UCT-Harvard Mandela fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Harvard University. Makhubu has curated various exhibitions and formed part of the curatorial team for the 55^th and 58^th Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2019, respectively. She has published Creative Books and research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and book volumes.