She is National Research Foundation of South Africa chair in archive and public culture at the University of Cape Town.
[1] She was a member of the board of the South African History Archive and the inaugural Council of Robben Island.
[2] Currently, Hamilton is National Research Foundation of South Africa chair in archive and public culture at the University of Cape Town.
[citation needed] Hamilton's 1998 book, Terrific majesty: The powers of Shaka Zulu and the limits of invention, dealt with the historiography of a particular episode in South African history.
[4] She was the editor, with Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Rossof, of the first volume of The Cambridge History of South Africa (2009).