Brooke Alhadeff

Masters Fellow, UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technic

Brooke Alhadeff is a Masters student in the Philosophy Department,  a member of the Catalyst Philosophical Society at the University of the Western Cape, and a UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities fellow.

In 2024 she was awarded a DVC Recognition of Excellence Scholarship for her BA Honours in Philosophy. Brooke’s Honours thesis centred on the questions of whether race may be constructed through performativity, and looked at how an account of race as performative may be able deepen the current discourse around the racial subject. Her main area of interest lies in social philosophy, particularly in how social structures and social powers constrain lived experiences and behaviour.