PhD Social Anthropology SOAS, University of London

Ilana graduated from SOAS in mid-2007 and took up a postdoc position there for two years. Her PhD research forms the basis for her book “The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: A Church of Strangers” (2014, Cambridge University Press). Ilana returned to South Africa in late 2009 to continue her postdoc work at UCT and serves on the staff of HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa.