Ciraj Rassool is Senior Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where he also teaches Museum and Heritage Studies and Curatorship. Among his latest publications are Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts (Ann Arbor, 2017), written with Leslie Witz and Gary Minkley; and Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (published in Kronos: southern african histories, 44, 2018), co-edited with Nicky Rousseau and Riedwaan Moosage. He served on the boards of the District Six Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, the South African Heritage Resources Agency and the National Heritage Council. He was also a member of the Human Remains Advisory Committee of the Minister of Arts and Culture. He has previously chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM), and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the study of the Physical Anthropology Collection ‘Felix von Luschan’ at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Advisory Group of AFRIMUHERE (African Museums and Heritage Restitution). He was recently appointed to the new South African National Advisory Board for Restitution and Repatriation. He is also one of the principal investigators in the collaborative project, Action for Restitution to Africa.
Prof Rassool collaborates with Prof Hicks in Action for Restitution to Africa