An Archaeology of Identity in Post- Apartheid Southern Africa, Sven Ouzman’s dissertation, seeks to address contemporary anthropic concerns such as biopower, citizenship, colonialism, gender, indigenous intellectual property rights, and the like by using a series of southern African material-culture-centric case studies that have an archaeological twist. Ouzman, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, examines specific cases such as the Sterkfontein early hominid site, South Africa’s new coat of arms, the Voortrekker Monument, and European colonial-period southern African rock art. In so doing, he unearths the archaeology of modern technologies used to understand personhood, such as genetics, literature, and statecraft.