Team > Sabrina Maurus

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

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
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

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
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Publications

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Sabrina Maurus
'Africa Multiple: Cluster of Excellence' research "Making a Living" | Research associate

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

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4785
E-mail: sabrina.maurus@uni-bayreuth.de
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