is a doctoral fellow of the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam, Germany and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is currently researching the visualisation of “Southern African Later Iron Age Settlements in the Digital Age.” Siyotula is informed by her training as a visual artist, practices of blackness in contemporary visual arts, as well as her research interests in intercultural relations. She is invested in practises of making—particularly the making of visual images—within academia.