Fellows 2020/21
Dr. Saheed Adesumbo Bello
stay: 01.02.2021 - 31.07.2021
Saheed Bello is a lecturer, scenographer, director and production manager. He teaches theatre and film theories as well as theatre design and technology at the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Saheed research focuses on narrative as a mode of historical and philosophical thought. ...more
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Dr. Andrew J. Eisenberg
stay: 01.05.2021 bis 31.07.2021
Andrew J. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi. A musician and ethnographer, his research focuses on music and sound culture in urban East Africa and the Indian Ocean world. He has carried out extensive field research in the Kenyan cities of Mombasa and Nairobi, and is currently completing a monograph on music and ethnic subjectivity in Mombasa. ...more
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Dr. Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo
stay: 01.02.2021 - 31.07.2021
Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo is a professor of African History at UNILAB, a federal Brazilian university created to foster Africa-Brazil academic exchanges. He is also associated with the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at Bahia Federal University, where he received his training in History (BA, 2005) and African Studies (PhD, 2012). ...more
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Prof. Dr. Jon D. Holtzman
stay: 01.06.2021 - 31.07.2021
Jon Holtzman is Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA). He has conducted ethnographic research in northern Kenya since 1992, predominantly with Samburu pastoralists, and more recently in multi-sited and multi-vocal research combining the perspectives of Samburu with neighboring ethnic groups with whom they regularly come into conflict. ...more
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Dr. Nathalie Arnold Koenings
stay: 20.05.2021 - 31.07.2021
Nathalie Arnold Koenings is a sociocultural anthropologist, literary translator and fiction writer focused on Swahili-speaking worlds. With a guiding commitment to language, poetics, and narrative, she is interested in mystical and spatial imaginations, memory, archaeologies of the present, and the many meanings of translation. ...more
Dr. Ann A. Laudati
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
Dr. Ann A. Laudati is a broadly trained human-environmental geographer with specializations in natural resource conflict, war economies, livelihoods and (in)security, conservation and development, political ecology, qualitative field methods, and Sub-Saharan Africa. ...more
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Dr. Carla Lever
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
Dr. Lever has adapted her original proposal to align with COVID-19 protocols. As such, she will work on a series of writing projects concerned with South African protest repertoires as performed in service of the concept of ‘home’, whether this be rooted in planetary eco-sensibilities, migratory policies, or urban class politics. ...more
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Dr. Stephen M. Magu
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
As both a lifelong student of world history, politics and inter-state relations and a teacher thereof, Stephen’s scholarship and research centers primarily on Africa’s relations within the continent, with the west and comparatively, ‘South-South’, with BRICs and the ‘east.’ ...more
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Dr. Jonas do Nascimento
stay: 01.02.2021 - 31.07.2021
Jonas do Nascimento is a Brazilian sociologist and interdisciplinary researcher. He completed his PhD in Sociology / African Studies at PPGS, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) in 2019 and was Associated Research Fellow in the BIGSAS at University of Bayreuth (Germany), 2017-2019. ...more
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Dr. Hassan Juma Ndzovu
stay: 01.02.2021 - 31.07.2021
Hassan J. Ndzovu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Theology at Moi University, Kenya. He has a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. ...more
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Zainab A. Omaki
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
Zainab A. Omaki is a Nigerian prose and screenwriter. She has a Masters degree from the University of East Anglia where she was the recipient of the Miles Morland African Writer’s award. ...more
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Dr. Billian Otundo
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
Billian K. Otundo is a Lecturer of Linguistics at the Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies at Moi University, where she is also the English Programme Coordinator. ...more
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Btihal Remli
Artist in Residence, 01.02.2021 – 31.07.2021
Btihal Remli is a visual storyteller focused on art and documentary photography. She completed a Master Degree in Architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Her master thesis for graduation was a photography book about the cultural spaces in Morocco within the context of Spacial Theory. ...more
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Dr. Boubacar Sissoko
stay: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2021
So, my research focuses on modern and contemporary Muslim civilizations in Mali. How those civilisations affect Malian societies and what can we learn about the bilingualism (French – Arabic) status of Mali? ...more
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Dr. Abel Ugba
stay: 01.03.2021 - 31.07.2021
Dr Abel Ugba is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He is a sociologist of religion and media scholar, who is interested in the dynamics of religiosity in immigration contexts and in the multi-layered and complex entanglements of religion with the media. ...more
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Dr. Karim Nchare
stay: 24.05.2021 - 26.07.2021
Dr. Karim Nchare is an Assistant Professor at the African School of Economics and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Politics of Princeton University. He has advanced skills in field-based socio-economic research methods including preparation of survey tools, supervising data collection, performing data analysis, and writing technical reports. ...more
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Prof. Dr. Annmarie Drury
stay: 27.05.2021 - 18.07.2021
Annmarie Drury is a scholar and poet who translates from Swahili to English. She is the author of Translation As Transformation in Victorian Poetry (2015) and the editor and translator of Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (2015), as well as of many poems published in Raritan, The Paris Review, and other journals. ...more
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Dr. Ester Botta Somparé
stay: 15.04.2021 - 15.07.2021
Ester Botta Somparé, after studying Political Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy, obtained in 2011 a PhD in social anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris. ...more
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Prof. Dr. Wendy Wilson-Fall
stay: 01.06.2021 - 13.07.2021
Wilson-Fall is a social anthropologist, Associate Professor, and Chair of Africana Studies at Lafayette College. Formerly a Director of the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal from 1999-2004, she recently completed her tenure as President of the Board of the West African Research Association, where she remains ex-officio board member. ...more
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Prof. Dr. Pedro Sobral Pombo
stay: 07.06.2021 - 09.07.2021
Pedro Pombo is an Assistant Professor at Goa University and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured, University of Mauritius. He received his PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE- IUL, Lisbon (2015) with an ethnographic exploration on space, belonging, local history and personal archives in Southern Mozambique. ...more
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Dr. Daiana Nascimento dos Santos
stay: 01.05.21 - 01.07.21
My research is in the field of Comparative Literature, mainly in the field of African and African-American Literature. One of my main concerns has been to discuss the cultural dimension of the slave trade and its relationship to images of Africa in the contemporary imaginary of narratives written in Portuguese and Spanish. ...more
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Dr. Memory Biwa
stay: 15.01.2021 - 30.06.2021
Memory Biwa resides in Windhoek, Namibia. She studied History, Law and Politics at the University of Cape Town. And completed her doctoral thesis titled, “Weaving the Past with Threads of Memory: Narratives and Commemorations of the Colonial War in southern Namibia”, at the University of the Western Cape in 2012. ...more
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Dr. Abisoye Eleshin
stay: 01.03.2021 - 30.06.2021
My area of study is African languages and linguistics. My Ph.D. is in Yorùbá (Linguistics), with focus on morphology, and particularly nominalisation. I am presently a Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. ...more
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Dr. Zoly Rakotoniera
stay: 01.06.2021 - 30.06.2021
Zoly Rakotoniera is a full-time lecturer at the Department of Anglophone Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. She got her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Antananarivo in 2009. She has created and taught courses in Anglophone Literature, Translation and Film Studies at the University of Antananarivo since 2000. ...more
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Prof. Dr. Nadine N. Machikou
stay: 15.02.2021 - 15.06.2021
Nadine N. Machikou is a full professor of political science, sociology and international relations at the council for higher education in African and Madagascar CAMES (Conseil Africain et
Malgache pour l'Enseignement Supérieur) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. ...more
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Dr. Weeraya Donsomsakulkij
stay: 15.03.2021 - 31.07.2021
Weeraya Donsomsakulkij is a lecturer of English Studies and Assistant Dean for quality assurance of Theodore Maria School of Arts, Assumption University of Thailand. She completed her MA degree in Intercultural Anglophone Studies from University of Bayreuth and her Ph.D in English Studies and Anglophone Literatures from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth. ...more
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Dr. Camminga
stay: 01.03.2021 - 30.04.2021
Dr. Camminga is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University, South Africa. Their work considers the interrelationship between the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North and the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from the African continent. ...more
Prof. Dr. Noah Salomon
stay: 01.01.2021 - 31.03.2021
Noah Salomon is Associate Professor of Religion and Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Virginia. While at Bayreuth, he will work on two related research projects, both exploring the fate of religion in post-Revolutionary Sudan (2019 to present). ...more
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann
Stay: 01.11.2020 - 28.02.2021
Susanne Gehrmann is a professor for African literatures and cultures at the institute of Asian and African studies, Humboldt University Berlin. She holds MA degrees from the Universities of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Bochum and a PhD in Romance and Comparative literature from the University of Bayreuth ...more
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Dr. Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Stay: 01.10.2020 - 28.02.2021
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar in the humanities. She completed her PhD in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London in 2018 and was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Cape Town, 2018-2020 ...more
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Dr. R. Benedito Ferrão
Stay: 07.11.2020 - 04.02.2021
R. Benedito Ferrão is Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at The College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA. ...more
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Dr. Tabea Scharrer
Stay: 26.10.2020 - 25.01.2021
Tabea Scharrer is Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany), where she has conducted her post-doctoral research since 2010. ...more
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Prof. Dr. Miampika Moundele Landry-Wilfrid
Stay: 06.10.2020 - 06.01.2021
He directs the International Congress of Hispano-African Studies and the research group “Cultural and Literary Imaginaries of Africa and the Diaspora” ...more
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Dr. Melina Kalfelis
Stay: 01.10.2020 - 30.11.2020
Melina C. Kalfelis is working as a fellow at the “Africa Multiple” Cluster, where she is currently developing her postdoc project on morality, governance and justice in West African security fields ...more