Patricia Hayes

Patricia Hayes is a professor of the University of the Western Cape who focuses on various subjects tied to colonial photography. She has done work on colonial Namibian history and is currently researching political and documentary photography in South Africa while teaching African History, Gender and History, and Visual History. Personal life Hayes was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She received her PhD from Cambridge University in 1992 with her work on the colonisation of northern Namibia and southern Angola. She worked briefly in the United States in 1992 and 1993 and has held fellowships in the UK, USA, and Brazil. She is now working in the History Department at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has been awarded the Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award at the Western University of Cape Town. Scholarly work Hayes guest edited journal issues on visuality and gender in African history, such as Kronos in 2000 and Gender & History in 2006. Her recent research has dealt with photography and history in South Africa, especially under the apartheid period. She is currently running the Visual History research project at the University of Western Cape. This project focuses on Southern African documentary photography. The Colonizing Camera was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 1998 when it was published. Works The Colonizing Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History is a book that Hayes helped write on colonisation within Southern Africa.