Team > Dr. Sabrina Maurus

Scientific career

• since February 2020: research associate at the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple in the project "Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood", Research Section “Learning“
• PhD at BIGSAS (defended 2020) with the title: "Battles over State Making on a Frontier - Dilemmas of Schooling, Young People and Agro-Pastoralism in Hamar, Southwestern Ethiopia"
• Jan. - Sep. 2019: Research associate in Social Anthropology and contact concerning internship guidance
• Co-Organization of the working group “Learning for the Future – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Knowledge Transmission in Africa and beyond” at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (winter semester 2017/18) and of the Symposium "Education & Visions of Future(s)" (12-13 April 2018) (organized with Anna Madeleine Ayeh, Tanu Biswas, Dr. Tabea Häberlein, Dr. Lena Kroeker, Daniel Kyereko, Dr. Jennifer Scheffler, Julia Thibaut, Dr. Astrid Utler, Maike Voigt, Theresa Vollmer)
• Mar. - Jun. 2017: Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Winter semester 2015/16: Research associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group, University of Bayreuth
• 2012: Master of Arts in Cultural & Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
• 2011: Semester abroad at Université Victor Segalen in Bordeaux, France
• 2009: Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Studies in Culture and Religions, Philipps University Marburg
  

Research areas

• Education, childhood, youth, state-making, rural transformations
• regional focus: Benin, Ethiopia

Field research

• since 2020: fieldwork in Benin
• 2010-2015: several fieldwork stays in Ethiopia
  

Publications

Dr. Sabrina Maurus
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Section “Learning”

University of Bayreuth
Building: Zapf Haus 2
Universitätsstraße 38
​D-95448 Bayreuth

E-mail: sabrina.maurus@uni-bayreuth.de
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