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Fellows and guests of Working Group G (Summer 2016)

	Susann Baller University of Basel, Department of History Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Projekt "Politiker auf Reisen"
Background	Susann Baller arbeitet im Team der Afrikanischen Geschichte an ihrem Projekt "Politiker auf Reisen in Afrika von den 1920er bis 1960er Jahren". Im Augenblick ist sie für einen Auslandsaufenthalt in verschiedenen Archiven und Forschungseinrichtungen freigestellt. Susann Baller war 2008 bis 2015 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für afrikanische Geschichte.
In Bayreuth	01.05.-30.6.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	susann.baller-at-unibas.ch Website

Helmuth Berking

Helmut Berking

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie

Background

Herr Berking ist seit 2002 Professor für Soziologie an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Er war Gastprofessor an der Freien Universität Berlin, an der Technischen Universität Berlin und an der Universität Freiburg.

Interests

Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Globalisierungstheorien, kulturelle Globalisierung und Urban Anthropology. Herr Berking ist u.a. Mitherausgeber und Redakteur der Zeitschrift „Ästhetik und Kommunikation“.

In Bayreuth

25.04.-26.06. 2016

Working Group G Guest Fellow

Contact

berking(at)ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

Website

	Pascal Bianchini Assziiertes Mitglied des CESSMA - Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques
Background	Soziologie, politische Soziologie Aktuelle Forschungan: Carrières militantes autour de mai 1968 au Sénégal Reconstruction du système scolaire et enseignement de l’histoire au Rwanda Coopérants français en Afrique des années 1960 aux années 1980 Parcours de recherche Sociologie des crises et des réformes scolaires au Sénégal Sociologie des crises et des réformes scolaires au Burkina Faso
In Bayreuth	10.-25.7.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	pascalbian@gmail.com Website

	Dominique Connan Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne, Paris
Background	His research interests lie at the intersection of the colonial legacy, class formation and elite socialization in Kenya, where he spent three years doing fieldwork. While his doctoral work was a historical and sociological study of private members' clubs in Kenya, he is now working on a new project which focuses on the formation of the private sector in Africa. His main strength in research is to be able to combine the concepts and methods of a broad range of social sciences – history, sociology, anthropology- to address issues which usually pertain to political science. He holds two PhDs, in politics (Paris 1, 2014) and history (European University Institute Florence, 2015). Aktuelle Forschung: "Rotarians' visions for Kenya's future. An ethnographic enquiry into middleclass service clubs in Nairobi"
In Bayreuth	01.-30.6.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	dominique.connan@gmail.com Website

	Jason Musyoka University of Pretoria, South Africa
Background	Having graduated with his PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in 2016 and a Masters in Development Studies (University of KwaZulu-Natal) in 2010. Member of the advisory board in the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship (University of Pretoria). Founder and Director of Frontline Development Research and Training firm, and former Director at Cwaninga Development Consulting-both policy oriented research firms.
Interests	Emerging perspectives on intergenerational wealth distribution among South Africa’s new Black Middle Classes; Discourses around entanglement of middle classes with the poor/poverty, and a conceptual shifting from poverty alleviation to middle class formation as a more effective approach to addressing Africa’s Economic Development challenges
In Bayreuth	15.05.-28.05.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	jasonmusyoka@gmail.com

	Bahru Zewde Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University
Background	Founding Fellow and Principal Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, Editor of the Africa Review of Books, and Vice President of the Association of African Historians; formerly Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University and Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, a think tank based in Addis Ababa. He has also served as Resident Vice President of the sub-regional research network, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Editor of the Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review. Former member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of African History.
In Bayreuth	10.05.-04.06.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	bahru.zewde@gmail.com

	Henning Melber Senior Advisor/Director emeritus, The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala/Sweden
Background	Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria Professor Extraordinary, Centre for Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Senior Advisor, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study, University of London van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professor for Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 2017.
In Bayreuth	25.4-5.5 and 22.5-4.6.16 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	henning.melber@dhf.uu.se Website

	Cati Coe Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Camden
Background	2008-2015:Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Camden 2002-2008: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Camden 2000-2002: Ethnographer, Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut 1996-1998: Qualitative Researcher, Philadelphia Education Fund, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
In Bayreuth	03.06.16 - 03.07.19 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu Website

	Fred Ikanda
Background	Fred Ikanda is a Lecturer of Social anthropology and the Head of Department, Sociology and Anthropology Background: PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, UK. My doctoral dissertation, entitled Kinship, Hospitality and Humanitarianism: ‘Locals’ and ‘Refugees’ in Northeastern Kenya, is an ethnographic study of the role played by kinship in sustaining a refugee camp’s existence for more than two decades.
In Bayreuth	06.06 - 05.07.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	fikanda@yahoo.com

	Deborah James
Background	Professor Deborah James is a specialist in the anthropology of South and Southern Africa, and have recently begun research at some sites in the UK. her work is broadly political and economic in focus.She is currently directing an ESRC-funded project entitled An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state.
In Bayreuth	29.05-01.06.2016
Contact	Website

	Geoffrey Kitula King'ei
Background	Professor King'ei has widely researched and well published in his area of specialisation which include literary criticism, language education and sociolinguistics. The publications include articles in referred international academic journals, University level book, book chapters as well as dictionaries and general books. In addition, Prof King'ei has held many senior administrative positions including Head of Department, Director of various programmes and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Graduate Schools at Kenyatta University. He has made a number of academic visits to Bayreuth University and has even taught several Ba and Ma courses in the Department of Literature in African Languages in this University.
In Bayreuth	15.06 -15.07.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	Website

	Christopher Lee
Background	Christopher J. Lee is a Lecturer at CISA and in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. He previously taught in the United States and Canada at Stanford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his PhD in African history from Stanford University. Trained as a socio-cultural historian, his teaching and research interests concern the social, political, and intellectual histories of southern Africa.
In Bayreuth	09.-27.06.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	Christopher.Lee@wits.ac.za Website

	Sophie Cohen
Background	Backgroung: Master 2 in Art History, focusing on contemporary art in West Africa, University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (2016) Interests: Modern and Contemporary art in West Africa; sovietical aspects of art in revolutionary regimes in Burkina Faso and Benin ; art, memory and archives in Contemporary African art; popular art and cultures in Africa; postsocialism and postcolonialism in Africa; art, power and religion in postcolonial african countries; identity and migration; afrofuturism; art global market and exhibitions.
In Bayreuth	23.05 - 06.06.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	sophie.bodenes@gmail.com

	Andrea Noll
Background	PhD Candidate University of Mainz/ Hildesheim; Postdoctoral Scholarship University of Hamburg MA in Social Anthropology, University of Mainz Member of the Graduate School Gender and Education, University of Hildesheim (2012-2015) Interests: Biographical research, middle class, social mobility, kinship, education
In Bayreuth	11.07.-05.08.2016 Working Group G Guest Fellow
Contact	andrea-noll@gmx.de

Further Guests

Kebeet von Benda-Beckmann, Amsterdam

Wolfgang Gabbert, Hannover

Sam Hopkins, Nairobi

David O'Kane, Halle

Julia Pauli, Hamburg

Tabea Scharrer, Halle

Philip Smith, Yale

Rachel Spronk, Amsterdam

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Fellows and guests of Working Group G (Summer 2016)

Further Guests