Rosette is a National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town's Historical Studies Department in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also 2017 Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation's African Fellow, 2019-2022 Andrew Mellon's doctoral fellow, and a 2020 Social Sciences Research Council's African Peacebuilding Network doctoral fellow and a 2016 African Peacebuilding Network's Collaborative Research Group grantee. Her PhD project focuses on ways in which ethnic and regional identities are experienced among migrants with the focus on Congolese people of Cape Town. Her research is in the field of migration and explores issues related to transborder politics of identity and belonging as well as gender politics in migrant networks. Her research interest also includes urban networks of violence, with a particular interest on aspects of gender, class and identity. She has publications including peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews and working papers. Rosette is a Salzburg Global Fellow.