Meet the Fellow!
During her Cluster fellowship Dr. Valerie Nur scrutinized artisanal knowledge/skill in Niger from a mobile perspective. Her project’s aim is to conceptualize craft as an epistemology of an exclusive professional community. ...more
Welcome to the Bayreuth Academy
The "Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies", founded in 2012, is a centre for interdisciplinary research at the University of Bayreuth and since 2019 part of the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple”. ...more
Fellowship Programme
The Academy hosts international fellows at different career stages from all over the globe, being particularly open to Africa-based scholars. International fellows may either be selected among applicants who respond to internationally advertised competitive calls for applications, or they may be invited upon proposals from a unit of the Cluster ...more
Postdoc Working Groups
The Academy promotes working formats for early career fellows (Postdoctoral researchers and advanced Doctoral candidates at the University of Bayreuth and from abroad) ...more
