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Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the University of Venda (Univen) in Thohoyandou. Before she joined UNIVEN, she was a Rector of the Buffalo City Campus at Walter Sisulu University. She has also served as a dean at the Central University of Technology from the University of South Africa and as the head of the Institute for Science and Technology Education. Prof Feza has also worked as a Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council.
Prof Feza has been actively involved in teaching learning and research in her previous institutions of employment: the University of Northern Iowa in the US as a Research Fellow, the State University of New York as a research assistant and a teaching assistant, and Nelson Mandela University focusing on mathematics education. She received a Fulbright scholarship for a PhD, received an award of the inaugural Leroy and Margaret H. Callahan Scholarship from the State University of New York, and was awarded as a Diversity scholar by Michigan University. She is a C-rated researcher by the National Research Foundation. She is an Awardee, a lifetime achiever from Nelson Mandela University, and a STEM leader awardee of HERS Academy.
She continues researching the early mathematics learning and teaching years and supervises postgraduate students. She mentors several academics, some of whom have received professorships. 

University: University of Venda, South Africa

Position:  Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies 

Research areas:  Mathematics education, with a specific focus on African students' learning processes through cultural lenses and multilingualism, influences navigating mathematical ideas. 

ORCID ID:  0000-0001-7269-0301 

Email:  Nosisi.Feza [at] univen.ac.za