Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Mr. Dr. Holger Weiss

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	04. Oktober 2014
Email:	holger.weiss@abo.fi
Home university:	Abo Akademi (Finnland)
Personal information:	Holger Weiss (PhD 1997, University of Helsinki) is Professor of general history at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Guest Professor of history at Dalarna University, Sweden (since 2015). His research focuses on Global history (Entanglements and spaces in the early modern Atlantic world with a special focus on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean), West African environmental history (with a special focus on Ghana), and Islamic Studies (with a special focus on Islam in Ghana).