Julie is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, UKZN (Howard College). She is interested in histories of mental health and illness, psychiatry, and medicine, and on the ethical use of state archival records relating to institutionalized psychiatric patients. Currently engaged in research on the histories of emotions, the family and class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in KwaZulu-Natal; and with colleagues, a critical history of McCord “Zulu” Hospital. She teaches on topics such as Health and healing in Africa: the history of epidemics; world history to 1700. Julie is also concerned with developing Southern African students’ participation in the discipline and practice of History.

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