Leslie Bank

Leslie Bank is a deputy executive director at the HSRC and adjunct professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fort Hare. He is the author of City of Broken Dreams: Myth-making, Nationalism and University on the African Rust Belt (Michigan State University Press/ HSRC 2018), Imonti Modern: Picturing the Life and Times of a South African Location [with Mxolisi Qebeyi] (HSRC Press 2017) and Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City (Pluto Press 2011). He is co-editor of Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (Cambridge Press 2013). He is a member of the editorial board of the International Africa Institute journal, Africa, a commissioning editor for the IAI monograph series, and twice past president of the Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa.