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Robyn Murning is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research sits at the intersection of memory studies, post-colonialism, and generation studies, with a regional focus on post-apartheid South Africa. In her doctoral project, provisionally titled 'We feel agony apartheid, don’t know Memory identity South Africa’s ‘born free’ generation', she explores how the legacy of apartheid continues to shape the identities of South Africa’s post-apartheid generation. Drawing on theories of post-colonial memory, cultural trauma, and generationality, her work considers how inherited histories are processed, narrated, and lived through direct experience. Robyn holds a BA in Historical Studies and English Language & Literature from the University of Cape Town, where she graduated with distinction in 2019, and completed her MA in Global History at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2022, graduating cum laude.
Department of Econometrics / MSc Econometrics and Management Science.