Meet our Team

• 2025-2029          Human Genomics without Racism (HUGERA) collaborator (PI: Dr Celso Neto). Funded by the European Research Council (ERC Horizon Programme).
• 2024-2028          Microbiome Research and Race in the ‘Local South’ partner researcher (PI: Prof. Abigail Nieves Delgado). Funded by The Dutch Research Council Vidi grant.  
• 2024-2026          Over Their Dead Bodies: Underlying axioms and contemporary use and handling of human remains from institutional collections co-investigator (PI: Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly). Grant of the Constructive Advanced Thinking programme. 

• Fernandez, Msimang, Uren, & Petersen (2026). Toward inclusive medical education, research, and practice: Removing race from genetics. In Faadiel Essop (ed.) Decolonizing medical education, research and practice: transforming challenges into solutions. Elsevier. (HTML)
• Malinowska, Kurzwelly, Wilckens, Mitchell, & Msimang (2026). Bones of Injustice: The Ontology and Ethics of Human Remains in Institutional Collections. In Bendix & Kurzwelly (eds), Changing Ethics of Human Remains. Göttingen University Press, 21-49. (HTML)
• Wilckens, Mitchell, Msimang, Kurzwelly, & Malinowska (2026). Bones of Injustice: Historically Changing Ethics, Politics and Practices of Human Remains Collections. In Bendix & Kurzwelly (eds), Changing Ethics of Human Remains. Göttingen University Press, 51-70. (HTML)
• Msimang and Sarkar (2026). Philosophy and Race Science. In Adam Tuboly and Flavia Padovani (eds) Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science. Routledge, 388–397. (HTML)
• Msimang (2021). Social races in biomedical settings. In Ludovica Lorusso and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (eds) Remapping Race in a Global Context. Routledge, 265–280. (HTML)
• Msimang (2021). Revisiting race and biology in the South African social sciences. In Ludwig, Koskinen, Mncube, Poliseli, Reyes-Galindo (eds) Global Epistemologies and the Philosophy of Science. Routledge, 243–253. (HTML)

• Msimang (2025). Prescribing Race: No Blank Scripts for Using Race and Ethnicity in Health. Argumenta 10 (2), 527–550. (HMTL)
• Msimang (2022). The IRR as false witness: how the Institute of Race Relations strategically misinforms us about race and policy (as a threat to deliberative democracy). Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 172 (2), 1–31. (HTML)
• Msimang (2020). Medicine, anti-realism, and ideology: variation in medical genetics does not show that race is biologically real. Northern European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2), 117–140. (HTML)

• Msimang (in progress). What is the biological profile of ‘the’ South African? Forensic Anthropology.
• Msimang (2026). Toward a population concept outside of the racial paradigm. Current Anthropology. (HTML)
• Msimang (2022). That only the elite should have children is a worrying argument. South African Journal of Bioethics & Law 15 (1), 6–7. (HTML); Don’t shy away from the elitist implications of your argument: Response to de Roubaix. South African Journal of Bioethics & Law 15 (2), 42–43. (HTML)

A more comprehensive list of Msimang’s academic publications can be found on Google Scholar. Most of these publications should be available for download on Researc​hGate​