{"id":12246,"date":"2026-03-11T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:04:15","slug":"research-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/research-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Research team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SADiLaR has Digital Humanities researchers with expertise in most of the official languages of South Africa. Led by Professor in Digital Humanities, Menno van Zaanen, the research team aims to support research and development in the domains of language technologies and language-related studies and beyond in the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a look at our DH researchers\u2019 fields of interest and study below, and feel free to contact them if you would like to collaborate on research projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/dh-prof\/\">Prof Menno van Zaanen \u2013 Professor in Digital Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-english\/\">Mr\u00a0Deon du Plessis \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-afrikaans\/\">Dr Benito Trollip \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/isizulu-researcher\/\">Mrs Rooweither Mabuya \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-isindebele\/\">Ms Nomsa Skosana \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-sesotho\/\">Ms Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-xitsonga\/\">Dr Respect Mlambo \u2013 Digital Humanities Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-siswati\/\">Dr Muzi Matfunjwa \u2013 Senior lecturer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/data-scientist\/\">Dr Michelle White \u2013 Data Scientist<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/project-manager-african-wordnet-node-co-manager-sadilar-unisa-node\/\">Ms Marissa Griesel \u2013 Project Manager: African Wordnet Node co-manager: SADiLaR Unisa Node<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SADiLaR has Digital Humanities researchers with expertise in most of the official languages of South Africa. Led by Professor in Digital Humanities, Menno van Zaanen, the research team aims to support research and development in the domains of language technologies and language-related studies and beyond in the humanities and social sciences. Have a look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[745],"class_list":["post-12246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital-humanities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12247,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}