Former members
Dr. Grace Akese
Culture and Technology in Africa
Research associate
Dr. Dida Badi
DFG research "Political Orders in the Making"
DFG research associate until 12.2020
Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends
Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
until 9.2023
E-Mail: andrea.behrends@uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Uli Beisel
Professor for Culture and Technology in Africa
until 03.2021
Dr. Amiel Bize Melnick
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Senior research associate until 7.2021
Dr. Paolo Gaibazzi
Social Anthropology
Heisenberg Position until 10.2022
E-Mail: paolo.gaibazzi@unibo.it
Dr. Valerie Hänsch
Professor for Culture and Technology in Africa (Representative)
until 03.2021
Sarah Lempp, M.A.
DFG research "From social gaze to bureaucratic standards" | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research associate
Rebekka Krauß, M.A.
'Africa Multiple: Cluster of Excellence' research "Learning beyond the classroom: Coping with illiteracy in urban literate envirionments in Bolivia and Benin"
Research associate
E-Mail: rebekka.krauss@uni-bayreuth.de
Lucilla Lepratti, M.Sc.
Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
Research associate
E-Mail: lucilla.lepratti@uni-bayreuth.de
Dr. Claudia Liebelt
Social Anthropology
until 07.2021
E-Mail: claudia.liebelt@fu-berlin.de
Dr. Lena Kroeker
DFG research "(In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling" | Social Anthropology
Research associate
E-Mail: lena.kroeker@uni-bayreuth.de
Laura Matt, M.A.
Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
Research associate
E-Mail: laura.matt@uni-bayreuth.de
Office hour: please arrange an appointment via e-mail
Dr. Sabrina Maurus
'Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence' research project "Making a Living"
Research associate until 9.2023
E-Mail: sabrina.maurus@uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chair for Epistemologies of the Global South
E-Mail: epistemologie@uni-bayreuth.de
Sabine Netz, M.A.
DFG research "How Age Makes a Difference” | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research associate
E-Mail: sabine.netz@uni-bayreuth.de
Working Group: Anthropology of Global Inequalities
Dr. Délia Evelyne Nicoué
Cultural Anthropology
Research associate until 3.2017
Dr. Samwel Moses Ntapanta
Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
Senior research associate
E-Mail: Samwel.Ntapanta@uni-bayreuth.de
Office hour: please arrange an appointment via e-mail
Fellow at the EXC Africa Multiple
E-Mail: bakheitnour79@yahoo.com
Dr. Valerie Nur (née Hänisch)
Anthropology in Africa
Senior research associate and scholarship holder of the Bavarian Government to support women's equality in science and teaching until 11.2023
E-Mail: valerie.nur@unibw.de
Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Severin Penger, M.A.
Social Anthropology
Former Research Associate
Thiago Pinto Barbosa, M.A.
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate until 09.2021
Hanna Lena Reich, M.A.
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate until 09.2019
Joh Sarre, M.A.
Social Anthropology - Research associate until 3.2021
E-Mail: sarre@posteo.de
Dr. Michael Stasik
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate until 08.2017
Mihir Sharma, M.A.
Epistemologies of the Global South
Research associate
E-Mail: mihir.sharma@uni-bayreuth.de
Office hour: please arrange an appointment via e-mail
Working Group: Anthropology of Global Inequalities
Dr. Manfred Stoppok
Scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung until 9.2023
E-Mail: manfred.stoppok@uni-bayreuth.de
Rami Wadelnour, M.A.
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate until 07.2018
Nestor Zante, M.A.
Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Social Belonging until 2.2025
Dr. Tyler Zoanni
Anthropology in Africa
former research associate until 08.2020