Susana Molins Lliteras

Dr Susana Molins-Lliteras is an Associate Researcher at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and where she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2016 and was awarded the prestigious African Studies Association Presidential Fellowship for 2019. For the last decade, she has been a researcher and coordinator at the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project (www.tombouctoumanuscripts.uct.ac.za) and an integral part of the Project’s events and output, organising conferences, workshops and seminars on West African book and manuscript history. Her current book project, based on her doctoral dissertation, presents an archival biography the Fondo Kati, a private family manuscript collection in Timbuktu, elucidating how historical knowledge in and about Timbuktu is continuously produced, reproduced, and refashioned. She has published on the archives of Timbuktu and on the social history of a West African Sufi movement in South Africa.