Venolia Rabodiba

Current Role at Stanford

Ph.D Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Susan Ford Dorsey Innovation Africa Fellow, Center for African Studies
Center for Global Ethnography student employee Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

Honors & Awards

• Susan Ford Dorsey Innovation Africa Fellowship, Center for African Studies Stanford University (2024-2025)
• MMUF Travel and Research Grant, Institute for Citizens and Scholars (2022-2023)
• Anthropology Prize for Service to the Department, Department of Anthropology Stanford University (2022)
• McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Graduate Fellowship, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society (2020-2021)
• Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Social Science Research Council (2020, 2021, 2022)
• EDGE Doctoral Fellowship, Vice Provost for Graduate Education Stanford University (2019-2020 to 2020-2021)
• Stanley P. Jackson Medal, School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand (2019)
• Graduate Merit Award, Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2018)
• Honours Innovation Grant, National Research Foundation Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of the Republic of South Africa (2018)

Professional Affiliations and Activities

• Graduate Student Coordinator, Center for Global Ethnography at The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (2024 - Present)
• Graduate Residential Associate, Sophomore College Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (2023 - 2023)
• Research Affiliate, University of Zambia School of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History and Archaeological Sciences (2022 - 2023)
• Co-Coordinator, Science and Technology Studies Workshop (2021 - 2022)
• Representative, Graduate Student Organization Department of Anthropology (2021 - 2022)
• Member, American Anthropological Association (2019 - Present)