Anna Stielau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her dissertation, "In a Present, Tense: Unsettling Times in South African Anticolonial Art and Visual Culture," explores how South African artists and activists are using, reimagining, and hacking time to confront the legacies of colonization and apartheid, where once time perpetuated systems of oppression as an instrument of control. Combining interviews, archival research, ethnography, and visual analysis, her doctoral project theorizes creative disruptions of temporal convention in S.A.'s segregated cities as a decolonial tactic, activating forms of being, relating, and belonging that are not reducible to post-apartheid non-racialism, yet do not perpetuate the imperial insistence on temporal and spatial difference. Previously, Anna worked as an educator and art writer in South Africa, where she was a two-time gold medalist in the BASA National Arts Journalism Awards. She is a 2022-23 Doctoral Fellow in Urban Practice at NYU Gallatin's Urban Democracy Lab, and her ongoing research has been supported by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, NYU's Global Research (GRI) Initiative, and the Magnum Foundation in NYC. She currently serves as assistant editor of the journal Public Culture.