Fellows 2023/24

Dr. Chermbea Suleiman Athuman
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Chembea Suleiman Athuman holds a PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany; a Master of Arts in Religion and a Bachelor of Education (Arts), both from Moi University, Kenya. He teaches Religion at Bomet University College where he also Heads the Department of Arts, Governance and Communication Studies. ...more

Dr. Don Edward Walicek
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Don Edward Walicek, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras Campus. He earned a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded his PhD in English from the University of Puerto Rico. ...more

Dr. Habibat Oladosu-Uthman
stay: 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2024
Dr Habibat Oladosu-Uthman was born more than five decades ago. She obtained her first and Masters degrees in Islamic studies from University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria between 1999 and 2004 respectively. She obtained her Ph. D from International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2011 with an award as the best graduating Ph. D candidate in Islamic Thought and Civilization. ...more

Dr. Joseph Kasule
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Joseph Kasule received his interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies from Makerere University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), where he researches and convenes courses in cultural anthropology. He works on aspects of Islam, Secularism, Violence, and Coloniality/Decoloniality.. ...more

Dr. Moses Yakubu
stay: 01.10.2023 – 21.12.2023
Dr. Moses Yakubu is a distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Principal Investigator of the University of Lagos African Cluster Centre. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in History and Strategic Studies. ...more

Isabelle Carine Bahanag
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
From 2014 to 2016, Carine Bahanag wrote and directed three musicals for children as part of her "Vacances en Cadence" project, artistic workshops open free of charge to children from the workingclass Nkolndongo district (Yaoundé, Cameroon), who don't always have access to art. ...more

Valerie Nur
stay: 01.10.2023 – 30.11.2023
In May 2021 Valerie Nur (née Hänisch) defended her PhD on artisanal skills, mobility and family among Tuareg artisans in Niger at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany. For her PhD thesis she was awarded the Frobenius-Forschungsförderungpreis 2022 and the first prize by the German association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) at the 2023 conference in Munich ...more