Nalini Moodley-Diar
Executive Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.
Nalini Moodley-Diar is currently the Executive Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. She has a B.A (Fine Arts), M.A. (Art History) cum laude, a UPGCE and completed her PhD in Art History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal which focused on the visual art produced by Indian South Africans from 1961 to 1999. Her present areas of research include the politics of minorities as well as the complexities of race and identity politics within a transforming South Africa. She has published papers in peer reviewed journals on Hindu art and artists in South Africa, Indian dance, and the multiplicity of positionalities of Indians in South Africa. She is currently also engaged in research projects focusing on women leaders in higher education