Zinhle Mncube

Zinhle Mncube received her MA in Philosophy (2016) from the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), and her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science (2023) from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Before Zinhle joined UMASS in 2024, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego.

Zinhle’s current research concerns the epistemology and ethics of personalizing medicine, as well as the use of race in medicine, broadly construed. She is one of the editors of the recently published Routledge volume, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science. Zinhle has published papers on the use of race in medical algorithms, the biological basis of race, and a causal construal of heritability estimates, amongst others. She is a winner of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Studentship, the University of Johannesburg Chancellor’s medal for the most meritorious study in the Faculty of Humanities, and a 2019 South African Women in Science Award.