Dr. Neely received her Ph.D. in geography with a minor in African history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. As a fellow, Dr. Neely will be completing a book based on her dissertation work provisionally titled: Witchcraft and Wellness: Agency and Change in Twentieth-Century South Africa. In the book, she examines how and why local understandings of the relationships between health and environment changed between the 1930s and 1980s in a rural, Zulu-speaking area of South Africa called Pholela.