Robyn Murning

Robyn Murning is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of History. Her research sits at the intersection of memory studies, post-conflict trauma, and generational identity, with a regional focus on post-apartheid South Africa.

Her doctoral project – provisionally titled “We feel the agony of apartheid, but we don’t know why: Memory and identity of South Africa’s ‘born free’ generation" – explores how the memory and legacy of apartheid continue to shape the identities of South Africa’s first 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 by those who did not directly experience them.