Nadia Mbeki (b. 1984, Ladybrand, Free State) is a South African historian of borderlands and memory. She earned a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MA from the University of Cape Town, and a DPhil in African history from the University of Oxford, focusing on mountain fortifications in the southern African interior. Since 2016 she has lectured at the University of the Free State, where she directs a field lab on historical GIS and oral archives. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Kronos, and African Studies Review, and she has consulted on heritage mapping projects in Lesotho and the Eastern Free State.
