Prof. Dr. Lize Kriel

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOther Areas of History,Modern and Contemporary History,Religious Studies
Keywordsvisual culture, mission history, periodicals, colonialism, African-European encounters
Honours and awards

2024: C1 rating, National Research Foundation of South Africa

2022: Contributor to the book Archives of Times Past - winner of the NIHSS best collection of essays prize (non-fiction)

2022: Contributor to the book Inherited obsessions - winner of the NIHSS best exhibtion catalogue prize

2018: C2 rating, National Research Foundation of South Africa

2012: C2 rating, National Research Foundation of South Africa

2004: University of Pretoria Young Researcher Award

Current contact address

CountrySouth Africa
CityPretoria
InstitutionUniversity of Pretoria
InstituteDepartment of Visual Arts

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Adam Thomas JonesInstitut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Andreas FeldtkellerTheologische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2006

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009Lize Kriel: The 'Malaboch' books: Kgalusi in the 'civilization of the written word'. Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 13.. Franz Steiner 2009
2009Lize Kriel and Alan Kirkaldy: “Praying is the work of men, not the work of women” The response of Bahananwa and Vhavenda women to conversion in late nineteenth-century Lutheran missionary territories. . In: South African Historical Journal, 2009, 316-335
2008Lize Kriel: From private journal to published periodical: gendered writings and readings of a late-Victorian Wesleyan’s ‘African Wilderness’. In: Book History, 2008,
2008Lize Kriel: Intersections of gender and race in the missionary corresepondence of deaconess Anneliese Dörfer, East and South Africa. In: Historia. Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, 2008, 98-125
2007Lize Kriel: A space too vast and silent? German deaconesses and the patriarchy of the Berlin Mission in Apartheid Transvaal. In: Comparativ, 2007, 55-75
2007Lize Kriel: Reverend Watkins’s books. In: Innovation, 2007, 56-80
2006Alan Kirkaldy, Lize Kriel: Converts and conservatives: Berlin Mission representations of Khosi August Makhahane and Khosi Matsiokwane Leboho in the Northern Transvaal, c. 1870-1900. In: Le Fait Missionaire, 2006,
2006Isabel Hofmeyr, Lize Kriel: What is Book History and why does it matter to Historians of Southern Africa?. In: South African Historical Journal, 2006,