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Professional career
Peace Kiguwa (born 1977) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her PhD in psychology, in 2014 from the University of the Witwatersrand. The title of her doctoral thesis, “Telling stories of race: A study of racialized subjectivity in the post-apartheid academy” explores the intricacies of racial subjectivity in a post-apartheid and ethnically diverse academic context. She is a multidisciplinary academic and her primary research interests include, critical social psychology, critical race theory, racial conflicts in South Africa, gender, sexuality, social justice movements and the dynamics of teaching and learning. In 2019, she earned her professorship and is currently employed at the University of the Witwatersrand an associate professor, with 14 years of service.

Awards and research initiatives
Professor Kugiwa has been recognised for her academic excellence and valuable contributions to academia, receiving numerous accolades, scholarships and research grants. In 2016, she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has collaborated with the African Gender Institute (AGI), in research initiatives that centre on young women's leadership within the context of higher education and is involved in a project with Action Aids International (AA) aimed at challenging heteronormativity. She previously served as a research consultant for an NGO-driven initiative called Poetso Music Project, which uses music to support the reintegration and restoration of male inmates in South Africa.

Kiguwa has recently been awarded the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Rising Star Fellowship at the University of Witwatersrand, which offers support to emerging academics with leadership potential and fosters the advancement of interdisciplinary research. As part of the fellowship, she intends to broaden her research within the domains of gender and sexuality through exploring the interrelations and social manifestations of these disciplines. The fellowship will provide her with an opportunity to follow her passion of supporting and guiding talented young scholars. She has played an active role in mentoring aspiring academics with an interest in gender, sexualities queer and race studies. Her involvement in various research initiatives including Women Intellectuals Transforming Scholarship in Education (WITSIE) and the Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST), will enable her to further develop and shape young researchers.

Publication record
Throughout her academic career, Professor Kiguwa has contributed to publications in both local and internationally renowned journals and has an extensive publication record, with more than 35 journal articles and 12 book chapters to her name. She has worked with multiple authors in co-editing five books and three special issue academic journals, including Rethinking Social Cohesion and its relationship to Exclusion, Papers on Social Representations, and Micro-politics of Belonging in Higher Education.

Board membership
At present, she serves as a member of the editorial board for three accredited journals including Psychology In Society (PINS), African Studies (AS) and the International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (IJCDS). Despite the multidisciplinary focus of her research, she has remained dedicated to the field of psychology. Professor Kugiwa currently holds the position of Chair in the Sexuality and Gender Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA).