Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

Helena Pohlandt-McCormick is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She spent most of her childhood in South Africa and Namibia. Her dissertation, "I Saw a Nightmare: Doing Violence to Memory. The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976,” examined competing historical memories and representations of the Soweto Uprising.

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