Simbarashe Gukurume is a senior lecturer at Sol Plaatje University, South Africa. His research focuses on the intersections of sociology and social anthropology, particularly in the forms of agency, socialities, and convivialities that are forged in times of protracted crisis and uncertainty. Simbarashe has received research grants and fellowship awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Science in Africa, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. His work has been published in African Affairs, International Journal of Transitional Justice, African Security Review, and African Identities. Simbarashe is on the editorial boards of Anthropology Southern Africa and the Journal of Religion and Development.