Ciraj Rassool, PhD is Senior Professor of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and director of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies. He has published widely on changing old museums & making new museums, race in museums, restitution, political movements and the politics of nonracialism. He served on the boards of the District Six Museum & Iziko Museums of South Africa and is a member of the South African National Advisory Board for Restitution and Repatriation. He is a principal investigator on the international collaborative research project, ‘Reconnecting “Objects”: Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums’ and a co-investigator of the Canadian-based international project, ‘Thinking Through the Museum’. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the study of the Von Luschan Collection at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany & is a member of the panel of ‘critical friends’ of the Dutch museum transformation project ‘Pressing Matter’.