About the Team

Anusa Daimon is a Lecturer of History at the University of Malawi; a Research Associate at the International Studies Group (ISG), University of the Free State and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Research Fellow with Institute for Ethnology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. He works on migration, labour, state politics, citizenship, statelessness, culture, borders and borderlands across the Malawian, Zimbabwean, Mozambican and South African geospatial frontiers. His research has featured in numerous refereed journals and he has also worked closely with the American Council of Learned Societies - African Humanities Program (AHP); the Social Science Research Council - African Peacebuilding Network (APN); and the Amnesty International.

Henry Dee is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His first book – Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951 – is due out with Liverpool University Press in 2025. He has published research on the history of trade unions, migration politics and the broader Malawian diaspora in the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Journal of South African History, African Studies and the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia for African History.

Franny Gaede is an Associate Librarian in the Department of Open Research in the University of Oregon Libraries. Her work focuses on translational scholarship and the sustainability and preservation of digital projects. Her interests include digital publishing and pedagogy, the social justice of open access, and library as workplace.

Zoë R. Groves is Lecturer in Modern Global, Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Leicester and Research Associate at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of southern Africa, especially the themes of migration, urbanisation and popular culture in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first book, Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, c.1900-1965: Tracing Machona was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020 in the Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies series. Her research has featured in numerous African Studies journals and she serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Elias PK Mandala is a Malawian national with vast research experience. He has conducted various types of research interviews and transcribed works for many scholars. He worked in the Parliament of Malawi and interacted with policy-makers on several development agendas. Elias has attended and presented papers at several international conferences on gender and women's rights, including OECD (Paris), Cranz Montana (Barcelona), Women in Political Leadership (Reykjavik), and Economic Forums by the World Bank/IMF (New York.) Currently, Elias is reading on the economic policies of Labour Emigration: Poor South (LDC) to Rich North (HDC).

Julie M. Weise is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She comes to Malawian history via global migration history. Her first book, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), received the Merle Curti Award for best book in U.S. social history from the Organization of American Historians among other honors. Thanks to NEH OpenBook, the e-book of Corazón de Dixie is now available for free. Weise’s current project, “Guest Worker: Lives across Borders in an Age of Prosperity,” explores the histories of transborder labor migrants in the mid-twentieth century through a close focus on those who were recruited from Spain to France, Mexico to the United States, and Malawi to South Africa. Her research in southern Africa was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and her work on this website was supported by the University of Oregon’s Digital Scholarship Center and Vice President for Research and Innovation.