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Stichproben – Association for the Promotion and Publication of Academic Work in African Studies.

2026: Editors-in-chief: Ulrike Auer and Immanuel Harisch

• Tomi ADEAGA teaches and conducts research in African literature, the African diaspora, Black European Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminist Studies and Gender Studies, as well as Translation Studies and translation research. She received her doctorate in Translation Studies from the University of Siegen in 2006. From 2014 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, where she completed her habilitation in African Literary Studies in 2021. In 2024, she was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Gender Studies and Political Science at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria. From 2014 to 2021, she organised and chaired the monthly meetings of the Vienna African Writers Club (VAW) at the Department of African Studies. She is a member of the African Literature Association and the African Studies Association in the United States. She has published the monograph Translating and Publishing African Language(s) and Literature(s): Examples from Nigeria, Ghana and Germany (2006), as well as research articles and encyclopaedia entries in peer-reviewed journals and books. She chairs the Snyder-Aidoo Literary Award Committee for creative writing, is the author of short stories published in anthologies, and edited Payback and Other Stories: An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories.
• Daniela ATANASOVA: doctoral researcher at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna and a member of the Mobile Cultures and Societies research platform. Her doctoral project is a historical study of women’s social and spatial im/mobility in Zambia since the 1950s, focusing particularly on women who lived in and moved between the rural Eastern Province and the capital, Lusaka. She previously completed the European Master in Global Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Wrocław, as well as a BA in English Language and Literature at Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, including a one-year study period at Duke University in the United States.
• Ulrike AUER: studied African Studies and Musicology at the University of Vienna. Since 1999, she has headed the secretariat of the Department of African Studies. Since 2009, she has been responsible for the administration of Stichproben. Managing Editor
• Carl-Philipp BODENSTEIN:
• Eric BURTON: Assistant Professor of Global History at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. After studying International Development and Cultural and Social Anthropology at the universities of Vienna and Dar es Salaam, he completed a doctorate in History on African socialism in Tanzania and the development policies of East and West Germany. In 2019, he was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ghana in Legon. He has also worked as a research associate, lecturer and visiting researcher at the University of Vienna, Leipzig University’s Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1199 and the University of Exeter, specialising in development policy, socialisms and educational migration. His current research project examines “Hubs of Decolonisation: Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam, 1956–65”.

• Alessandro DE COLA is a FWF ESPRIT Fellow and Principal Investigator of the project “Another Side of the Coin” (2026-2029, DOI: 10.55776/ESP3352825) at the University of Vienna, and Research Affiliate at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. His work focuses on the social, economic, and monetary history of East Africa and the Indian Ocean in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently writing a monograph on the monetary history of Eritrea and the Red Sea during the Italian colonial period. His most recent publications examine the role of African actors in the design of colonial monetary policies, the use of money in the recruitment of African soldiers in the Italian army, and the impact of colonial monetary regulations in Eritrea during the First World War.

• Birgit ENGLERT: Associate Professor of African History and Society at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, where she also completed her habilitation in 2023. She has published extensively on land rights, popular cultural practices, mobilities, solidarities and qualitative research methods. Birgit is a founding member of Stichproben and served as its Managing Editor from 2001 to 2021, with a few brief interruptions.
• Dominik FRÜHWIRTH:
• Bea DE ABREU FIALHO GOMES: until October 2019, Senior Lecturer in Racism and Development Studies at the Department of Development Studies. Since 2019, she has been a retired research associate of the University of Vienna.
• Immanuel R. HARISCH: has been one of the Managing Editors of Stichproben since 2021. He currently leads the FWF ESPRIT project “Spare Parts: A Transnational History of Automobility” (2026–2029). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the FWF project “A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia”. His doctoral dissertation, which received the Walter Markov Prize, examined the institutions, networks and mobilities of African trade unionists during the Cold War. He is co-editor of Navigating Socialist Encounters. Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (de Gruyter, 2021) and has published several scholarly articles on African and global labour history, African socialisms, East–South connections and knowledge production. Managing Editor
• Lisa HOPPEL: recipient of a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She studied History (BA), Global History and Global Studies (MA), and International Development. Her doctoral project in Global History examines Afro-Asian networks and their significance for Pan-African institutionalisation during the 1950s and 1960s. Her research interests include African and other nationalisms, African liberation movements, Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, South–South relations and transnational intellectual history.
• Elisabeth KNITTELFELDER: Postdoctoral University Assistant and Lecturer at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She received her doctorate in English and American Studies from the University of Graz and was a recipient of a Marietta Blau Fellowship. She conducted research on South African theatre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa and the University of Potsdam in Germany. From 2022 to 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. Her current research focuses on hydrocolonialism, ecocriticism and climate justice in African literature and theatre.
• Martina KOPF: Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the Department of African Studies. She previously served as Africa editor at Südwind – Magazin für internationale Politik, Kultur und Entwicklung (2004–2009), Principal Investigator of the FWF Elise Richter project Concepts of Development in Postcolonial Kenyan Writing (2017–2022), and research associate in the FWF project Colonial Concepts of Development in Africa, 1920–1960 (2009–2012). She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Nairobi (2020) and Goethe University Frankfurt (2017), a Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2014–2015), and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna (2015). Her research and teaching focus on African literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in East and West Africa; development and the decolonisation of knowledge; trauma, narration and the ethics of representation; and intercultural and intersectional feminisms.
• Nicolas MABILLARD:
• Arno SONDEREGGER: Senior Lecturer in African History and Societies at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna since 2010. He served as Interim Professor of African History at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012–2013 and as Deputy Head of the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna from 2011 to 2014. He was a lecturer in the International Development programme from 2005 to 2010 and at the Department of African Studies from 2004 to 2010. From 2002 to 2004, he held a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He completed doctoral studies in African History from 2002 to 2005, following degree studies in Theatre Studies (1993–1994), Ethnology (1993–1998) and African Studies (1994–2000). His teaching and research interests include the political, social, cultural and intellectual history of Africa, global history, the history of science and the history of racism.
• Daniela WALDBURGER: Privatdozentin, Senior Lecturer in Swahili and Lecturer in Linguistics at the Department of African Studies in Vienna.
• Dominik WOLF: studied African Studies and History at the University of Vienna. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Department of African Studies. He currently works on provenance research projects at the Weltmuseum Wien and the Natural History Museum Vienna, investigating colonial acquisition contexts. His doctoral research examines the East African collections assembled by the Imperial and Royal Navy for the Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum. His research interests include the history of East Africa in the nineteenth century, the history of science and (post)colonial provenance research.

• Anaïs ANGELO (2020–2023): I am a Postdoctoral Assistant at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, where I work on the project “Where are the Women? Power, Gender and Political Biographies in Kenya”. After completing a master’s degree in Political Science at Sciences Po Paris, I specialised in African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, United States. I then turned to History in order to analyse the origins of presidential power in Africa from new perspectives and received my doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. My dissertation, “Power and the Presidency: The Jomo Kenyatta Years”, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. For my current postdoctoral project, I examine the careers of the first Kenyan women who campaigned for parliamentary seats during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when politics remained largely dominated by men.
• Veronika BILGER (2001–2014): African Studies scholar specialising in migration. She works at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Vienna.
• Bianca BOROS (2017): studied African Studies, Education and International Development at the University of Vienna. Student assistant at the Department of African Studies.
• Elke CHRISTIANSEN (2001–2013): studied African Studies at the University of Vienna, specialising in development policy and international relations. She heads the secretariat of the International Development programme at the University of Vienna.
• Martina CIGANIKOVA (2008–2017): studied African Studies, International Development, and Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna. Her dissertation is entitled “Democratization Processes in Global Comparison. Governance of Oppositional Forces in Semi-Peripheral Societies.” Her research interests include governance, democracy and transition studies.
• Claudia DAL BIANCO (2011–2016): studied African Studies and International Development. She works as a project manager at Frauensolidarität in Vienna.
• Ingeborg GRAU (2001–2022): retired contract lecturer at the Department of African Studies and the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Her research on the history of sub-Saharan Africa focuses on colonialism, missions, history and literature, changing gender relations and gender studies.
• Petra KARUME (2016–2017): studied African Studies and International Development in Vienna. She works as a Predoctoral University Assistant at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. She is currently writing a dissertation on historical landscape changes in a peri-urban forest reserve in Tanzania.
• Albert KRALER (2001–2013): political scientist and African Studies scholar specialising in migration. He works as a Programme Manager at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and also teaches at the University of Vienna and TU Wien.
• Miša KRENČEYOVÁ (2008–2017): holds a degree in International Development and a doctorate in African Studies from the University of Vienna. Her principal interests include forced migration, migration, empowerment, gender, racism studies, development studies, human rights, concepts and representations of Africa, and the history of knowledge about Africa.
• Irmi MARAL-HANAK (2001–† August 2011): Associate Professor at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Her research focused on Swahili language teaching and literature, communication and development, discourse analysis, feminist approaches to development and social policy. Her principal regional focus was East Africa.
• Karin OBERAIGNER (2001): studied African Studies at the University of Vienna.
• Clemens PFEFFER (2011–2017): studied International Development in Vienna. From 2010 to 2015, he was a Predoctoral University Assistant at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. He is writing a dissertation entitled “Antikolonialer Widerstand in der Weimarer Republik, 1919–1933”.
• Kirsten RÜTHER (2014–2022): Professor of African History at the Department of African Studies. Her career as a historian and African Studies scholar has included positions at Leibniz University Hannover, the University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen, and the University of Zurich. Her methodological approach is grounded in social and entangled history, with an empirical focus on Southern Africa. Her research areas include Christianisation and colonialism, health and popular culture, kinship studies, cities and housing.
• Walter SCHICHO (2001–2022): Professor Emeritus since 2010. His research focuses on contemporary African history and development studies. His principal regional areas of expertise are Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Francophone West Africa.
• Katharina WURZER (2016–2022): studied African Studies and Political Science at the University of Vienna. She worked as a student assistant in research and teaching at the Department of African Studies, in Political Science, and at the Department of Development Studies.

• Prof. Dr. Tunde ADELEKE, Center for American Intercultural Studies, Iowa State University, Ames
• Priv.-Doz. Dr. Katrin BROMBER, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Frederick COOPER, Department of History, New York University
• Prof. Dr. Toyin FALOLA, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
• Prof. Dr. Heidi HUDSON, Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
• Prof. Dr. Nancy Rose HUNT, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Prof. Dr. Emma HUNTER, Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh
• Prof. Dr. Alexander KEESE, Départment d`Histoire générale, Université de Genève
• Prof. Dr. Roman LOIMEIER, Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Göttingen
• Prof. Dr. Paul LOVEJOY, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, Department of History, York University
• Prof. Dr. Henning MELBER, University of Pretoria / University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
• Prof. Dr. Sabelo J NDLOVU-GATSHENI, Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria
• Prof. Dr. Brigitte REINWALD, Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität, Hannover
• Dr. Alena RETTOVÁ, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Prof. Dr. Aly TANDIAN, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal
• Dr. Judith VAN ALLEN, Institute for African Development, Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca
• Prof. Dr. Clarissa VIERKE, Afrikanistik, Institut für Afrikastudien, Universität Bayreuth

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Alphabetical listing A–J

• Abdilatif ABDALLA (Nr. 39) is a Kenyan writer, political activist and scholar based in Germany. From 1995 until his retirement in 2011, he taught at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig. Previously, he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 1986 to 1994 he was Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Africa Events magazine, published in London. He also worked in the Kiswahili Department of the BBC World Service in London from 1979 to 1986. Before that he spent seven years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From December 1968 to March 1972, he was imprisoned in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kenya, for political activism against the Kenyan government after writing, publishing and distributing the political pamphlet Kenya: Twendapi? (Kenya: Where Are We Heading To?). While in solitary confinement, he wrote the poems collected in Sauti ya Dhiki, published in 1973, which subsequently received the Kenyatta Literary Award.
• Dechasa ABEBE (Nr. 49) is Associate Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has authored several journal articles and books on the modern history of Ethiopia. His recent publications include: Dechasa Abebe (2024), ‘Rural Governance in Urban Space: A History of the City Management of Addis Ababa (1991-2005)’, in Ethiopian Journal of Development Research 46 (2), 113–138; (2023), ‘Trends in Personal Names of Šäwan Royal Family from Nǝguś Śahlä Śǝllase to Nǝguśä Nägäst Ḫaylä Śǝllase I, c. 1810s-1970s’, in Journal of Ethiopian Studies 56 (2), 51–72; (2022), ‘Kǝtät Awaj’s of Emperor Mǝnilǝk and Ḫailä Sǝlasse to counter the Italian Aggressions: A Comparative Text Analysis’, in Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanitie 18 (2), 96–117; and (2021), ‘Backgrounds to the Socio-political pitfalls of Lij Iyasu (r. 1913-1916)’, in The International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 15 (1), 81–99.
• Richard Abayomi ABORISADE Ph.D (Nr. 46) is a Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria. His research interests include violence against women and girls, domestic and family violence, victimisation, the Nigerian criminal justice system and the treatment of offenders, policing in twenty-first-century Nigeria, victimisation through cybercrime, security, and sustainable development in Nigeria. He has published on these subjects in national and international academic journals.
• Tomi ADEAGA PD PhD (Nr. 47) completed her habilitation in African Diaspora Studies in 2020 at the Department of African Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, where she teaches African and African Diaspora Literature. She also teaches in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. She co-edited Payback and Other Stories – An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories (2018) and authored Translating and Publishing African Language(s) and Literature(s): Examples from Nigeria, Ghana and Germany (2006). Her short story ‘Marriage and Other Impediments’ appeared in African Love Stories; An Anthology (2006). She translated Olympe Bely-Quénum’s C’était à Timony as As She Was Discovering tigons (2017). Her chapters and journal articles include ‘Sexuality, Resilience, and Mobility in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street’, in Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century, edited by Rose Sackeyfio (2021), and ‘Colonialism and Sexuality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda’, in Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) (2020). She serves on several editorial boards, including those of the Journal of African Gender Studies (JAGS) and Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies. Her research interests encompass African gender studies, African literature, African Diaspora Studies, translation and transnational studies.
• Tunde ADELEKE (Nr. 32/ 35/ 38) is Professor of History at the Department of History at Iowa State University, Ames, and Director of the African and African American Studies Program (AAAS). His fields of interest are African History and African American Studies. Among his many books are Africa in Black Liberation Activism: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney (2017), The Case Against Afrocentrism (2009), Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robinson Delaney (2003 and 2012) and UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission (1998).
• Hypolite A. ADIGWE (Nr. 13) is Director of Mission and Dialogue at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria and Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. Within the Christian Association of Nigeria he is responsible for education and the development of young people and women. He was a member of the Nigerian Constituent Assembly in 1988/89.
• Peter Oracha ADOYO (Nr. 3) is an educator specialising in deaf education and most recently headed the ‘Maseno School for the Deaf’ in Kenya. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf in Hamburg, examining the role of Kenyan Sign Language in educational practice.
• Karembe F. AHIMBISIBWE (Nr. 50) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and a Lecturer in the Department of Adult and Community Education at Makerere University, Uganda. He researches citizenship, everyday resistance, grassroots learning and association, pandemic precarity, and NGOs.
• Otobong Enefiok AKPAN (Nr. 48) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Her research interest in cultural resource management has led her to study archaeological remains and rock art in the Cross River region and at sites in northern Nigeria. As an archaeologist, she aims to contribute actively to research projects and to collaborate with other researchers constructively, creatively and professionally. She seeks to explore, discover, preserve and promote the cultural heritage of her surroundings for future generations and international recognition.
• Agustina ALVAREZ (Nr. 46) holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vienna (2014) and a master’s degree in African Studies from Leiden University (2016). She specialised in contemporary East African politics, international relations and foreign policy at the University of Dar es Salaam and is fluent in Kiswahili. Since 2016 her research has focused on sacred forests in the Kilimanjaro region. She is currently a Programme Coordinator for Ethiopia and Mozambique at an international NGO based in Vienna. She continues her research and fieldwork independently and presents her findings at international conferences in Europe.
• Carole AMMANN (Nr. 30) is a PhD-candidate and lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Within the scope of her PhD she conducted fieldwork in Guinea between 2011 and 2013. Her main concern is with questions of gender, statehood, transformations of the state, political articulations, and everyday life.
• Margit AMMER (Nr. 19) is a research associate at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights.
• Job Shipululo AMUPANDA (Nr. 35) is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Namibia. He is also a youth Activist with the Affirmative Repositioning Movement concerned with Social Justice in general and economic freedom in particular.
• Sina APING (Nr. 43) studied International Development at the University of Vienna. Her research addresses racism, intersectionality, the African diaspora in Europe and anti-discrimination. Her principal interests lie in critical development studies, critical research on racism and educational work that critically examines power relations. She is a member of the educational project AEWTASS – Advancing Equality Within The Austrian School System and serves as an adviser on decolonisation at the Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag e.V.
• Esther ASENSO-AGYEMANG (Nr. 44) is an early career development sociologist whose research interests are in the areas of transnational families; social policy; and technology in society. She is the Research Officer of the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA) Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She has worked previously on other development projects at the University. She is also a beneficiary of the “Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa” (BANGA-Africa) Project Grant and the Erasmus+ International Mobility Programme for Non-European Union Students Scholarship.
• Daniela ATANASOVA (Nr. 44) is a PhD student at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna and a member of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. Her PhD is a historical study focusing on the social and spatial im/ mobilities of women in Zambia, particularly women who have been (im)mobile in and between Eastern Province and the capital city Lusaka since the 1950s onwards.
• Adewole Akinyemi ATERE PhD (Nr. 46) is Professor of Criminology and Penology at the Department of Criminology and Security Studies, College of Law, Osun State University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, a master’s degree in Sociology (Criminology) awarded in 1991 and a doctorate in Criminology and Penology awarded in 2000, both from the University of Ibadan. His teaching and research span sociology, criminology, penology and social work. He has published extensively, particularly in criminology, and has served as an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
• Birgit ATHUMANI HANGO (Nr. 50) is Head of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Library at the University of Vienna, Austria. She holds a Master´s degree (Mag. phil) in African Studies and a Master´s degree (MSc) in Library and Information Science from the University of Vienna. She is co-founder of the working group ‘Colonial Contexts in Libraries – Decolonize the Library!’ in 2021, which addresses the social developments arising from the Black Lives Matter movement in Austria.
• Eric AWICH OCHEN (Nr. 41) completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies in the School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. He has also completed post-doctoral trainings at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge and the John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, at the University of Bradford. Eric currently works as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda. In 2015 and 2019, he was visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His publication spans socio-political and social development issues. He is currently working as a Co-Investigator and Country Director for a four-year gender-based violence reduction project in Uganda, funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Funds (www.noneinthree.org). Eric Awich Ochen is also the Co- Principal Investigator and Southern Partners Coordinator on a six-year NORHED II project (2021-2026) aimed at transforming the face of Social Work Education in the Eastern Africa region bringing in four countries as core partners: Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Norway.
• Joseph Bosco BANGURA (Nr. 35) is affiliated as a part-time researcher at the (1) Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and the (2) Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• Elizabeth (Betty) BANKS (Nr. 42) is a historian of the Soviet Union and twentieth century Africa. Her research has focused on socialist globalisation and international socialism in the cold war era. She is one of the editors of The African Soviet Modern, a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2021), and is finalizing a manuscript examining connections between the USSR and Mozambique from the 1960s through the fall of the USSR. Her current work examines economic policy making inside international institutions, with a focus on experts in and from Africa and the USSR. She received her PhD from New York University and is currently an ERC-funded research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
• Harald BARRE (Nr. 28) was born in 1984 and completed his MA on Senegalese and Ghanaian migration in 2011. His interest in the African diaspora developed during a study-abroad year in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, supported by the Fulbright Commission. Since 2014 he has been working on a doctoral project on the history of Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam during the 1960s and 1970s.
• Dauda Waiswa BATEGA (Nr. 50) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Sociology and has undertaken research projects in water and society, environment and population health. His recent publications include “Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Small Towns in Rural-urban Transition Zones: The Case of Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Uganda” and “Caught in the Middle? Access to water in the rural to urban transformation of Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality, Uganda”.
• Heike BECKER (Nr. 41) is a sociocultural anthropologist and author. She is Chair of the Anthropology Department of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where she teaches courses about anthropological theory, visual culture, popular culture, and the politics of difference. Her research interests have focused on the politics of memory, popular and visual culture, and social movements of resistance in southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia). She currently also works on decolonizing the public space, memory activism and anti-racist politics in Germany and the United Kingdom. She has engaged with sound archives and oral poetry in northern Namibia in “‘Let me come to tell you’. Loide Shikongo, the King, and poetic license in colonial Ovamboland”. (History & Anthropology). Heike Becker has also published widely on memory, activism, monuments and public art in Namibia and South Africa, and together with Carola Lentz edited a special issue on “The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: National days in southern Africa” (Anthropology Southern Africa).
• Jigal BEEZ (Nr. 5) is an anthropologist and is working for the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre „Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences” of the University of Bayreuth. He is doing research for the project „Irrigation in Kilimanjaro”.
• Paul BEITZER (Nr. 25) is a graduate of International Development and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
• Temitope Yetunde BELLO (Nr. 45) is a Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at Kola Daisi University in Ibadan, Nigeria. She has received scholarships and grants to attend national and international academic meetings and has undertaken individual and collaborative research supported by CODESRIA, SSRC, MIASA, SMUS, TETFUND, SOAS University of London, the University of Edinburgh, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Baywood Foundation. Some of this work has resulted in publications on media and politics, social media and mob justice, mob justice and the judicial system, insurgency and women's insecurity, and urbanisation and the informal sector.
• Michael BIGL (Nr. 49) holds a master’s degree in Law (Mag. iur.) and a BA in History from the University of Vienna. During his studies, he worked as a student- and scientific project assistant at the Department of History and the Department of European, International and Comparative Law. Most recently, he served as a University Assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for the Internationalization of Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he also began his doctoral studies in Business Law. His research focuses on the interplay between historical developments and (international) legal frameworks.
• Veronika BILGER (Nr. 2/ 6/ 8/ 18) has studied African Studies with a focus on migration at the universities of Vienna and Naples. She is a researcher at the ICMPD (International Centre for Migration Policy Development) in Vienna and lecturer at the University of Vienna.
• Astrid BOCHOW (Nr. 29) is a social anthropologist at the University of Göttingen. Her research addresses family, youth and religion in Kumasi, Ghana, and health, politics and family life in Gaborone, Botswana. Since September 2015 she has worked on religious and social activism as part of a DFG-funded research project in which she holds an individual research position.
• Claudia BÖHME (Nr. 36) is an anthropologist and Africanist researching media and (im)mobilities, with a geographical focus on East Africa. She obtained her PhD from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a study of Tanzanian video-film culture (Köppe Verlag, 2016). She subsequently worked at the Universities of Leipzig and Trier. Her work has appeared in Global Nollywood (Indiana UP, 2013), Trance Media and New Media (Fordham UP, 2015), B-Movie Gothic (Edinburgh UP, 2018) and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa (Routledge, 2016), as well as in Africa Today, Journal of African Cinema, Critical Arts and Journal of African Cultural Studies.
• Matthieu BOLAY (Nr. 30) is a PhD candidate at the Laboratory for Transnational Studies (MAPS) at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. For his PhD, he has conducted research on transnational mobility in the context of artisanal gold mining in West-Africa (Mali, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Sénégal). He has also been involved in other research projects dealing with questions of access to natural resources and transnational migrations.
• Svetlana BOLTOVSKAJA (Nr. 34) is a research associate at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, working on the projects ‘Das ukrainische Polesien als Nuklearlandschaft und die Transformationen lokaler Identitäten, 1965-2015’ and ‘Digitale Forschungsinfrastruktur: Das Kulturerbe Polesiens’. She completed her PhD in Freiburg in 2013 with a dissertation entitled ‘Bildungsmigranten aus dem subsaharischen Afrika in Moskau und St. Petersburg: Selbst- und Fremdbilder’. She is an ethnologist, journalist and museologist. Her research interests include the history of educational migration from Africa to Russia; interethnic and cultural relations between Africa and Eastern Europe; the history and culture of ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe; transnational migration; identity formation; and perceptions of self and other.
• Sofie BOONEN (Nr. 28) is a PhD candidate at Ghent University, where she graduated as an engineer-architect. She is currently finishing her research on the spatial history of Lubumbashi, in which she traces the way the formation of the city’s urban form and built environment was related to the formation of a colonial society. Together with Johan Lagae, she has published several articles on the topic.
• Bianca BOROS (Nr. 32) studies African Studies, Education and International Development at the University of Vienna, where she currently works as a student assistant at the Department of African Studies.
• Florence BOYER (Nr. 8) holds a doctorate in geography. She is associated with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société in Poitiers. Her recently completed thesis is on Touareg circular migration from Bankilaré (Niger) to Abidjan.
• Julien BRACHET (Nr. 8) is currently working on a Ph.D. in social sciences on forms of mobility in the central Sahara at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UMR Prodig) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (UR 105).
• Nikolai BRANDES (Nr. 20) is a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
• Katrin BROMBER (Nr. 32/ 33) heads a research group at the Leibniz Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin. She obtained her PhD in African Linguistics at the University of Leipzig and completed her habilitation at the University of Vienna with a study of Swahili-language military propaganda during the Second World War. Her research interests encompass linguistic and sociocultural aspects of Swahili as well as sport and processes of subject formation in Ethiopia and on the Arabian Peninsula. In the field of the social history of sport, she co-edited Sport Across Asia. Politics, Cultures and Identities (New York: Routledge, 2013) with Birgit Krawietz and Joseph Maguire and published articles on Ethiopia in The International Journal of the History of Sport and the Northeast African Studies Journal.
• Benjamin BRÜHWILER (Nr. 27) is a doctoral candidate in the program of African history at Michigan State University with an interest in the nexus of economy, community, and identity in twentieth-century urban East Africa. His dissertation project is entitled “Moralities of Owing and Lending: Credit, Debt, and Urban Living in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam”.
• Jennifer BRUNNER (Nr. 50) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Graz and co-coordinator of a module series on 'Introduction to African Studies' at treffpunkt sprachen − Zentrum für Sprache, Plurilingualismus und Fachdidaktik. Her research focuses primarily on language description and comparison, but also on the history of the discipline and methodology. Her geographical focus is on Mexico, East Africa, Senegal and Sierra Leone. She also has many years' experience as a project manager at the Afro-Asian Institute in Graz and is a project collaborator at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Throughout her work, she encounters persistent colonial power structures, epistemic violence and the failure to recognise existing bodies of knowledge. Raising awareness of these issues and, consequently, establishing fairer research practices are central concerns of her work.
• Irene BRUNOTTI (Nr. 41) is Lecturer for Swahili Language and Swahili Studies (since 2011) at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig. With a background on literature and popular culture, she has recently researched and published on digital publics; she has worked on a project on Swahili poetry and knowledge production, and she is currently working on a project within urban studies with a focus on Zanzibar City. In understanding the urban and its practices, she is concerned with the performativity of dreams and desires, with the power of affect and memory, and mostly with the agency of the matter out of which they are built. She is very much interested in translations of materialities as well.
• Julia BÜCHELE (Nr. 32) is completing her dissertation at the Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB), entitled ‘Expat Spouses in Kampala, Uganda: An Ethnography on Global Migration’, under the supervision of Elísio Macamo (University of Basel) and Tomke König (Bielefeld University). She is also part of the organising team of the 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), hosted by CASB from 29 June to 1 July 2017. She worked as an assistant at CASB from 2011 to 2015 and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2015–2016.
• Atuswege BURTON (Nr. 34) is a Lecturer in Kiswahili at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. She holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology and Tourism from Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania.
• Eric BURTON (Nr. 25/ 29/ 31/ 32/ 34/ 35/ 39/ 40/ 44) is Assistant Professor of Global History at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck. After studying International Development and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of Vienna and Dar es Salaam, he obtained a PhD in History. He has worked as a project researcher, lecturer and visiting researcher at the Universities of Vienna, Leipzig and Exeter and at the University of Ghana in Legon. He is co-editor of Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (Berlin, 2021) and editor of Journeys of Education and Struggle: African Mobility in Times of Decolonization and the Cold War (Vienna, 2018) and Socialisms in Development (Vienna, 2017). His current research project is entitled ‘Drehkreuzen der Dekolonisierung: Kairo, Accra und Dar es Salaam, 1956-65’.
• Brigitta BUSCH (Nr. 18/ 19) is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Multilingualism and Education, University of Cape Town. She has served as an expert for the Council of Europe in various fields and programmes relating to education and minority rights, and is a member of the Council of Europe's Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. She is also a member of the SprachenRechte network. Her research interests include multilingualism, discourse analysis and media communication.
• Dr. Joevan de Mattos CAITANO (Nr. 49) is an accomplished German/Brazilian organist, pianist, and choir conductor. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Kirchenmusiker in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and Bavaria. Based in Germany since October 2013, Caitano has built a career as an independent musicologist. He was awarded a DAAD scholarship between 2014 and 2018 to pursue his doctorate at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörn Peter Hiekel. His research has been published in esteemed journals such as Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Zeitschrift für die Musikforschung, Journal for Australian Studies, Journal Sounds of Music, ICTUS Journal Music, Journal Music Academy, MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler, NOVA Contemporary Music Journal, among others. Since 2014, Caitano has participated in international conferences and symposia, presenting on the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from intercultural and intercontinental perspectives with the assistance of Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. ORCID: 0000-0002-6925-5664.
• Mohamed Salio CAMARA (Nr. 30) graduated from Northwestern University and is a Fulbright alumnus. Dr Mohamed Saliou Camara is Professor of History, International Relations and Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida. Previously, he taught Philosophy at the University of Conakry, served as president of its university press and was Deputy Head of the Department of Philosophy. He also worked as a journalist for Guinea's national radio and television services and as a speechwriter at the Presidential Press Bureau. His current research focuses on human security in Africa in the age of globalisation. He is the author of several books on the political history of Guinea and West Africa.
• Elke CHRISTIANSEN (Nr. 1/ 5/ 18) is a scholar of African Studies specialising in development policy and international relations. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on ‘The National Interest and US foreign Policy Strategies’.
• Maximilian CHUHILA (Nr. 46) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, Master of Arts in History and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dar es Salaam – Tanzania. He teaches theory of history, thematic and regional courses. He researches and publishes on rural and urban transformations, environmental histories and decolonisation debates. He also supervises graduate students in these areas. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript titled: ‘Expanding Frontiers: History, Culture and Belonging on the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, ca.1920 to 1980’.
• Martina CIGANIKOVA (Nr. 15/ 18) studied African Studies, International Development, and Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna. She was a research assistant at the doctoral programme ‘Vienna School of Governance’ and is currently working on her dissertation entitled ‘Democratization Processes in Global Comparison. Governance of Oppositional Forces in Semi-Peripheral Societies’. She teaches at the Department of African Studies and in the International Development programme at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on governance, democracy and political transitions.
• Philipp CLAUSSEN (Nr. 10) studied History at the University of Hanover.
• Michael CSERKITS (Nr. 42) completed his MA in Sociology as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from the same institution. Currently, he is an independent postdoc researcher and has participated in the General Staff Course of the Austrian Armed Forces. Aside from research connected with conflicts and nation-building in the broader Sahel, he has published several articles dealing with the role of Armed Forces in societal change, strategic paradigms across different ages, and actively researches in the field of Visual/Anime Studies.
• Julia DAHLVIK (Nr. 19) is a sociologist and translation scholar. She coordinates the research platform Migration and Integration Research and is a Fellow of the doctoral programme ‘Empowerment through Human Rights’ at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on migration, gender and human rights.
• JG DANSO (Nr. 47) is a Black British cis-woman of Ghanaian – Sierra Leonean parentage. She works as an intersectional queer poet, human rights policy advisor and arts educator. JG’s multidisciplinary approach to writing connects intersectional queer joy to the push for structural equality, intersectionality and inclusion in all spaces. She is founder of Verein Hint Wien and Queer Writers Circle Vienna. Both initiatives are committed to improving recognition and access to opportunities for highly intersectional, queer and multilingual writers. JG writes: “The voices of LGBTQIA+ people are diverse and ever changing. However, this rich diversity is not well represented in the queer narratives out there in mainstream publishing. I hope that by sharing my work, and that of Queer Writers Circle Vienna, I can contribute to the visibility of queer narratives as expansive visions for liberation.”
• Johanna DELLANTONIO (Nr. 9) studied African Studies, International Development and Education at the University of Vienna. Her principal interests include internal migration and gender. During her studies she spent several months in Kenya and Tanzania. Since graduating, she has worked for an international NGO in Somaliland as an adviser on a programme against female genital cutting.
• Laura DENNIS-BAY (Nr. 12) received her PhD in 2000 from Indiana University. She is currently associate professor of French at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, KY, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests include the figure of la vieille in Baroque poetry and the comic novel, teaching with cinema, and more recently, women’s postcolonial literature.
• Ibrahima Amadou DIA (Nr. 8) graduated in Sociology at the University of St. Louis, Senegal. He is currently doing his Ph.D. at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva.
• Mbaye DIOUF (Nr. 17) holds a doctorate in Francophone Literature and is a member of the Canada Research Chair in African Literatures and Francophonie at Université Laval, Québec. His research addresses representations of exile and memory in the French-language novel.
• Silvio Tamaso D’ONOFRIO (Nr. 38) holds a Doctor of Science degree in Social History (2017) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Teaching in higher education since 2015, he works in the areas of Intellectual History and Archives, with extensions to Digital Humanities, and is leader of the research group “REGIONEM - Regional Multidisciplinary Studies”.
• Bakary DOUCOURÉ (Nr. 48) is a social anthropologist who teaches and conducts research in the Department of Sociology at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His interests include extractive industries, governance, labour and professional life, professional organisations and associations. His recent publications address corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining sector and professional organisations and associations among gold miners in Senegal.
• Boniface DULANI (Nr. 20) is a lecturer at the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Malawi.
• Erwin EBERMANN (Nr. 7) is a university lecturer and researcher at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, and is currently working on the project ‘Linguistic Innovation and Conceptual Change in West Africa (SIKWA)’. He has spent extensive periods in Africa. His research focuses on Mande languages, migration and cultural change.
• Christiana Urowoli EBOBO PhD (Nr. 46) is a lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Security Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria. She has a Ph.D. Degree in Sociology (Criminology) and MSc. Degree in Sociology (Criminology and Penology). Her areas of research focus are female criminality, sexual crimes, child abuse/domestic violence including intimate partner violence, murder committed by females, desistance and prison studies on female offenders including inmates’ education through Open and Distance Learning (ODL). She has publications in both local and international journals in all the areas mentioned above.
• Blessing J. EDET PhD (Nr. 49) lectures in the Department of History, School of Basic Studies, University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Military History with focus on Trench Warfare in the Nigerian Civil War. A recipient of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT) Global Community Scholarship, USA, he has also co-authored a book: As Bequeathed: HRM Udo Joe Ntuk Obom XII in the Service of His People (2024).
• Ulf ENGEL (Nr. 35) is a political scientist and Professor of ‘Politics in Africa’ at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig. He is Co-Director of the DFG Special Research Programme 1448 ‘Adaptation and Creativity in Africa’ (2011–2018) and Director of the doctoral school of Collaborative Research Group 1199 ‘Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition’ (2016–2019). Engel is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University; Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University; and Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS).
• Michelle ENGELER (Nr. 30) holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and is currently a postdoc at the centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on the conjunction of people’s life trajectories and political transformation processes in West Africa and include analyses of intergenerational relations, life worlds of academics and migration patterns of highly qualified people.
• Bettina ENGELS (Nr. 20) is a post-doctoral research associate at Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
• Birgit ENGLERT (Nr. 1/ 2/ 5/ 9/ 14/ 18/ 31/ 36/ 37/ 39/ 43/ 45) is Associate Professor in African History and Society at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, where she also obtained her PhD in 2005. She has published widely on a broad range of topics within African Studies, notably among them land rights issues and popular cultural practices in East Africa as well as in diasporic contexts. Her most recent research is situated at the crossroads of Mobility Studies and African Studies. From 2016-2021, Englert served as Deputy Head of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at the Vienna University. Further, she has been a founding member and managing editor of Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies since 2001. In one of her current projects, she focuses on the history of entangled solidarities between actors in African countries, Black liberation movements and Palestine.
• Akachi EZEIGBO (Nr. 47) – essayist, literary theorist, novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer and children’s author – is a Professor of English who taught for three decades at the University of Lagos before moving eastwards to teach at Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, in Ebony State. A multiple award-winning writer and scholar, Ezeigbo has received several national and international awards that include a Commonwealth Fellowship (1989/90), a British Council Fellowship at Cambridge University (1998), the first Best Researcher Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Lagos, Cadbury Poetry Prize, WORDOC Short Story Prize, Flora Nwapa Prize, The Nigeria Prize for Literature, ALA Best Short Story Prize (2020) and Fonlon-Nichols Award for excellence in Creative Writing (2022). Ezeigbo is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), a Director in the Board of Directors of University Press PLC, Ibadan since 2013. In March 2021 she was appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of The Nigeria Prize for Literature & The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd.
• Babacar FAYE (Nr. 48) is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. He is affiliated with the university's Research Laboratory on Migration, Gender, Religion and Social Phenomena (GERM). His articles cover a wide range of topics, including gambling and betting, gambling addiction, behavioural changes associated with gambling dependency in a difficult socioeconomic context, and gender inequalities in Senegal's education system. His doctoral dissertation examines gambling addiction among Senegalese bettors.
• Ute FENDLER (Nr. 17) holds the Chair of Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature, with a particular emphasis on Africa, at the University of Bayreuth. Her research interests include African cinema cultures, television, intermediality, literary and media genres, and comparative perspectives on Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Québec.
• Mette FINK-NIELSEN (Nr. 7) holds a Master’s Degree in International Development Studies and Education from Roskilde University in Denmark. Currently she is working in the area of Community Based and Outreach Education with UNICEF Zambia.
• Sebastian FORST (Nr. 39) is a Doctoral Candidate at the African Studies Department of the University of Vienna, Austria. Holding a Master’s Degree in African Studies with a focus in 19th century West Africa, he works in the areas of Social History and History of Religions. His fields of interest are pre-colonial history, history of intercultural encounters, oral traditions, and biographies.
• Alina FRAGA SILVA BA BA (Nr. 48) is a student at the University of Vienna. She is currently completing a master’s degree in history with a focus on contemporary history. Her bachelor’s degrees are in Political Science and History, completed in 2021 and 2022 respectively. Her research interests are National Socialism, Gender History and Erinnerungskultur(en) (Culture(s) of Remembrance). For her master’s thesis she is currently researching post-World War II trials against female kapos, with a focus on gender and class-based attributions by the post-war justice system. She has also been involved in the Party Congress Politics project at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna.
• Michaela FRAUWALLNER (Nr. 41) is currently a Master Student at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, where she is completing a thesis on “Multimodal Approaches to African History: Graphic Histories, Graphic Novels, and Comics from and about Africa." She is particularly interested in African history, the history of ideas and comic studies.
• Eva FREUDENTHALER (Nr. 23) studied African and Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Research stay in Kenya. She is currently studying law with a focus on human rights.
• Katharina FRITSCH (Nr. 36) holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna. She currently teaches as an external lecturer at the Department of African Studies and the Department of International Development at the University of Vienna. Her research interests encompass critical diaspora and migration studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and intersectional approaches.
• Dominik FRÜHWIRTH (Nr. 36/ 38) is a Doctoral Candidate at the African Studies Department of the University of Vienna, Austria, and Associate Researcher at the “Mobile Cultures and Societies” research platform of the University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a Magister Degree in International Development Studies and a Bachelor-Degree in African Studies with an extension in History of Religions, Theology and Bible Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interest is on African History and Development, with a specific focus on African diaspora involvement and Rastafari Studies. He has worked in the field of International Development in Nairobi and Vienna and has done extensive research on Rastafari in East and West Africa, the UK and Jamaica.
• Sarah FUCHS (Nr. 33) completed her doctorate at the Chair of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz, with a study of controversies surrounding Koranic school pupils who beg in Senegal. The project formed part of the wider research programme ‘The Anthropology of Transnational Crime Control and Human Trafficking’ and was funded by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration’. Her research interests include human rights, concepts of childhood and education, humanitarianism, education systems and Islam in West Africa.
• Laura FUCHS-EISNER (Nr. 27) is a research associate in Francophone Literary Studies at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Innsbruck, where she is working on a doctoral project on sociopolitical satire and extremism in contemporary literature. She completed degree programmes in Comparative Literature and English and Romance Studies (teacher education) at the University of Vienna.
• Barbara GÄRBER (Nr. 24) holds a master’s degree in International Development Studies and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on the impact of increasing sedentarization on land and livestock rights of agro- pastoral women and men in Karamoja, Uganda.
• Martina GAJDOS (Nr. 44) is a psychologist and Africanist specialising in Fulfulde. She has taught at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, for three decades. Alongside linguistic projects, she works on processes of perception, conflict prevention and human rights. While her research initially focused on Mali, Senegal and Nigeria, over the past decade she has expanded her geographical scope to the whole of Africa and to Asian countries, and has been involved in developing democratic institutions.
• Susanne GEHRMANN (Nr. 17) is Junior Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2008/09 she held a Feodor Lynen Fellowship at Université Laval in Québec. Her research focuses on Francophone West and Central African literatures, autobiography, migration literature, gender and colonial discourses.
• Carmen GESSLBAUER (Nr. 5) studied African Studies and English and American Studies. Her diploma thesis was entitled ‘African-Caribbean Youth in Britain: Language, education & black identity’ (Vienna, 2002). Her research interests include the African diaspora, creole studies, language and identity, and sociolinguistics. She currently works as a teacher of German as a foreign language in Vienna.
• Aram GHADIMI (Nr. 13) is a student of International Development and Political Science at the University of Vienna. Between 2003 and 2007 he observed and documented the ‘Causa Wague’ in several photographic series. His interests include migration, identities, racism and transcultural spaces.
• Ndèye Ndiagna GNING (Nr. 24) holds a PhD in medical anthropology and works on the issue of discourse on homosexuality in publics spaces and experiences of men who have multiple sexual identities in the context of AIDS in Senegal.
• Odile GOERG (Nr. 12) is Full Professor of Modern African History at University Paris-7 Denis Diderot and a member of the research unit SEDET/CNRS. Her main field is socio-economic history in the urban setting. Her present research project focuses on leisure and culture, mainly on cinema. She also addresses the question of conceptual categories in African History. She has published numerous articles and two books (Commerce et colonisation en Guinée, 1850-1913, L'Harmattan, 1986; Pouvoir colonial, municipalités et espaces urbains. Conakry et Freetown, des années 1880 à 1914, L'Harmattan, 1997). She also edited several publications, including recently: Perspectives historiques sur le genre en Afrique, (Groupe « Afrique », Cahiers n°23), L’Harmattan, 2007.
• Bea GOMES (Nr. 2/ 6/ 18/ 43) is a scholar of African Studies. Until October 2019 she was Senior Lecturer in Racism and Development Studies at the Department of International Development; since 2019 she has been a retired research staff member of the University of Vienna.
• Anke GRANESS (Nr. 47) is professor of philosophy at the University of Hildesheim and one of the directors of the DFG-funded Centre for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World – Historical and Systematic Perspectives”. She is a member of the steering committee of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, Vice-President of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP) in Germany, and member of the editorial board of the journal polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren. Her research interests include history of philosophy, philosophy in Africa, intercultural philosophy, global justice and feminist theory. Her most recent publications include Philosophie in Afrika. Herausforderungen einer globalen Philosophiegeschichte (Suhrkamp 2023).
• Ingeborg GRAU (Nr. 4/ 13/ 18/ 21/ 31) is a retired contract lecturer in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa at the Department of African Studies and the Department of International Development, University of Vienna. Her research interests include the interaction between British colonialism and missionary activity; colonialism, religions and ‘development’; history and literatures; changes in gender relations over the course of historical processes; and gender studies.
• Johanna GRILLITSCH (Nr. 13) studied African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, International Development and Journalism at the University of Vienna and SOAS in London. Her research interests include Pan-Africanism, Black nationalism, and youth and subcultures in the ‘Black Atlantic’. During her studies she worked as a youth and community worker in London and Vienna.
• Cornelia GROBNER (Nr. 37) is a science editor at the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse. As a communication scholar, she conducted research on media othering, focusing on representations of Africa in German-language entertainment television. She obtained her PhD from the University of Salzburg in 2017.
• Clemens GÜTL (Nr. 15/ 44) holds a PhD in African History from the University of Vienna. He is Research Associate and curator for the African holdings at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Gütl’s academic interests include mission and colonial history of Africa, the history of African Studies and Egyptology in Austria and sound collections in African languages. He has received several awards for his scientific and curatorial work.
• Tirhas T. HABTU (Nr. 24) holds a PhD with distinction in African Studies from the University of Vienna, a Master of Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and a Graduate Diploma in International Studies from the Bologna Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She received her bachelor's degree in Political Science with distinction from the University of Asmara, Eritrea, where she worked as a research and teaching assistant from 2004 to 2006 and in public relations from 2003 to 2004.
• Hanna HACKER (Nr. 32) is a sociologist and historian (Univ.-Doz. Dr.) who currently teaches Gender Studies at the University of Vienna and works primarily as an independent scholar. Her most recent professorship was in Social and Cultural Development Research at the Department of International Development, University of Vienna. She has taught at various Austrian universities, Université Yaoundé I in Cameroon and Central European University in Budapest. She has undertaken research and study visits to South Africa and Senegal and worked in development cooperation in Cameroon and Burkina Faso. Her main research interests include feminist, queer and postcolonial theory; women's movements, sexualities and constructions of gender around 1900; critiques of development; transculturality; and the history of racism and anti-racism in Austria.
• Eric Komlavi HAHONOU (Nr. 20) is a social anthropologist, external lecturer at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark.
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Please note: The positions stated here were valid at the time of each author’s most recent contribution to STICHPROBEN and may have changed since.

• Joseph Udimal KACHIM (Nr. 45) studied for his PhD with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Currently, he is lecturer at the Department of History of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research interest is in mobility and belonging of African populations along colonial borders in West Africa. He has won a number of international fellowships, including the prestigious ACLS African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship and University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS).
• Samuel M. KARIUKI (Nr. 7)  Ph.D, Wits, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa Currently, Visiting Research Fellow (7 July - 5 October 2004); African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Andrea KAUFMANN (Nr. 20)  is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Institute for African Studies, Basel University, Switzerland.
• Magdalena KERN (Nr. 9)  studies African Studies at the University of Vienna, specialising in African social history. She spent the 2004/05 academic year at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her interests include the social structure and history of Tanzania.
• Rita KESSELRING (Nr. 23)  is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, who works at the intersection of legal anthropology and the anthropology of the body. She is particularly interested in the embodiment of experiences and the possibilities for emancipation from painful memories in a post-conflict setting. The frequent turn to legal measures to deal with past abuses poses the question of the justiciability of experienced injuries.
• Samuel KETTLER (Nr. 50)  is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Adelaide University, where his doctoral research investigates the intersections of mobility, citizenship, and precarity. Kettler’s ethnographic work is grounded in the Global South, with extensive fieldwork experience in Dar es Salaam, Adelaide, and currently Bandung, Indonesia.
• Andrea Azizi KIFYASI PhD (Nr. 48) is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Kifyasi specialises in medical history and is interested in global health, China’s aid to Africa, medical diplomacy, and Cold War politics. His recent publications include: “Angels of God”? A History of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783112206881/html; Andrea Azizi Kifyasi. “China, a Friend in Need”? Disentangling the Contexts of China’s Medical Assistance in Tanzania, 1961–1978, ”European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health" (2025): 1–26, doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10056; Maxmillian Julius Chuhila and Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Green Imperialism: Cinchona and the Biomedical Campaigns in Colonial Tanganyika, ca.1900s, ”International Journal of African Historical Studies" 57, no. 2 (2024): 185-208; Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “How Effective Was the Global South Knowledge Exchange? The Chinese-Funded Medical Projects in Tanzania, 1968–1990s. ”Technology and Culture" 65, no. 1 (2024): 39-61. doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920515.
• Doseline KIGURU (Nr. 39)  is a postdoctoral research fellow at Rhodes University. She has a PhD in English from the University of Stellenbosch, was a Humanities Research Fellow at the British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA) in Nairobi and a Research Associate at the University of the Free State. Her research engages with issues of cultural and literary production in Africa with a major focus on literary prizes and the production of African literary and cultural value. Before embarking on an academic career, she was a journalist and editor. She has published various short stories as well as children’s story books and is interested in literature both as a critic and as a writer.
• Laura KISSER (Nr. 50)  is a PhD-student at the University of Vienna within the Austrian Science funded research project ‘Poetics of Relational and Intersectional Identities: African-Diasporic Writers in Austria’, led by Professor Rémi Armand Tchokothe. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature with an additional degree in Journalism and Communication studies from the University of Vienna. Her research centers on African-diasporic and underrepresented literary voices, aiming to highlight their aesthetic, cultural and political significance. She is a co-creator of the podcast ‚(Re)membering Rwanda. Conversations About Our Shared History’, a students’ project in cooperation with Radio Orange (2021).
• Kea A. KLATT (Nr. 42/ 47/ 48) is currently working on her Master’s thesis on Haitian language ideologies with the Department of International Development Studies at the University of Vienna. After a stint in development cooperations, she currently works in a shelter for homeless migrants and refugees. Her interests include intersections of sociolinguistics and human rights, as well as Magical Realism in African literature.
• Gudrun KLEIN (Nr. 43)  is a social anthropologist currently working at the Competence Centre for Diversity, Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination within the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, the Civil Service and Sport. For her doctorate at the University of Manchester, she researched the implementation of anti-racist educational measures in Brazil. She has worked on projects for Radio Afrika TV and the African Diaspora Youth Forum Europe for many years and has been part of the educational initiative AEWTASS – Advancing Equality Within The Austrian School System since 2019.
• Nauja KLEIST (Nr. 7)  holds a degree in International Development Studies and History from Roskilde University Centre. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation at the department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, concerning Somali transnational practices and diasporic formations.
• Jitka KLOUDOVÁ (Nr. 32)  studies African Studies with a focus on linguistics, alongside a master's degree in interpreting. She has, among other activities, worked as a tutor at the Department of African Studies.
• Johannes KNIERZINGER (Nr. 30) studied Sociology and International Development at the University of Vienna and holds a PhD in Global Studies from the Universities of Leipzig and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has done research in Guinea and Ghana and teaches courses on development sociology, global commodity chains and the sociopolitical implications of mining in Vienna, Leipzig and Munich.
• Elisabeth KNITTELFELDER PhD (Nr. 49) is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has worked on South African theater at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa and at Potsdam University in Germany. Elisabeth Knittelfelder holds a PhD in English and American Studies from the University of Graz, Austria, and is an awardee of the Marietta Blau Scholarship and the OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) postdoctoral fellowship. Elisabeth’s work exists at the convergence of literary studies, cultural studies, and theatre studies and is informed by global feminism, decoloniality, and Black studies. Her current research explores the nexus of hydrocolonialism, environmental crisis, and climate justice in African literature and theatre.
• Christoph KOCH (Nr. 28)  holds a master's degree and state examination qualifications in Geography and Economics. He is currently a research associate on the DFG-funded project ‘Finanzierungsstrategien urbaner Marginalgruppen und Potentiale der Mikrofinanzierung in Africa südlich der Sahara’ at the Chair of Development Geography at the University of Bayreuth. His research interests include urban development, urban studies, networks and social capital, resilience, vulnerability and risk research, theories of migration, and geographical education.
• Katharina KÖHLER (Nr. 19)  is a linguist and research associate at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business (active), as well as at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna (currently on leave). Her doctoral research examines the discursive construction of difference in relation to the notion of ‘discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin’ in equal treatment law.
• Ines KOHL (Nr. 28)  holds a doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in social anthropology and has a regional expertise on the Sahara and the Sahel, the Tuareg, i.e. Algeria/Libya/Niger/Mali. Her thematic research focus ranges from transnational mobility and migration, Saharan borders and borderlands, globalization, and identity, to Tuareg youth culture, economic strategies of ex-nomads, and sedentariness, urbanization and gender relations in the Sahara.
• Waltraud KOLB (Nr. 19)  is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Translation Studies, specialising in literary translation and interpreting in asylum procedures. She is a translator as well as a generally sworn and court-certified interpreter for English.
• Stefanie KOLBUSA (Nr. 5)  is an Africanist and is working for the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre „Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences” of the University of Bayreuth. She is doing research for the project „Local and Global Aspects of Taarab: A Popular Music Entertainment in East Africa”.
• Dior KONATE (Nr. 12)  is Assistant Professor of African History at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, where she is also teaching World History. She received her B.A and M.A from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal) and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written on issues of prisons in colonial and post-colonial Senegal, female delinquency, and women in politics. Currently, she is working on a project on women and fashion in colonial Senegal.
• Adama KONSEIGA (Nr. 8)  is visiting fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn (Germany). His research interests are regional integration, international migration, household economics, food security and economic convergence.
• Martina KOPF PD PhD (Nr. 4/ 11/ 18/ 26/ 39/ 47)  is Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. She completed her habilitation in African Studies in 2023 with a thesis on ‘African Literature, Feminist Theory and Development Thought: From Colonial Ideas to Decolonising Literary Discourses’. From 2017–2022 she was principal investigator in the Elise-Richter Project ‘Concepts of Development in Postcolonial Kenyan Writing’ of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Her areas of interest include alternative epistemologies of development, intersectional feminism, literary history of East and West Africa, and narrative approaches to witnessing trauma. She is co-author of ‘Changing the Frame: New Epistemic Frameworks and Social Transformation in African Feminist Theory’ (with A. Graness, The Monist 107/3, 2024, DOI: 10.1093/monist/ onae014) and Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika (with A. Graness and M. Kraus, Facultas 2019). She guest-edited Journal of African Cultural Studies 34/3: African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-) Development Thought (2022, DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2022.2088483), and Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 10/3-4: Kenyans Abroad (with M.T. Mboya and D. Waldburger, 2024), DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2024.2411646.
• Klaus KRAINZ (Nr. 19)  is Deputy Director of the Austrian Federal Asylum Office and head of its Graz branch. His areas of work include quality assurance and improvement of asylum interviews (both nationally and within the European Asylum Curriculum), interpreting and medical assessments.
• Albert KRALER (Nr. 2/ 3/ 6/ 8/ 16) holds a degree in Political Sciences and African Studies from the University of Vienna. He is Research Officer at the ICMPD (International Centre for Migration Policy Development) in Vienna and lecturer at the University of Vienna. Recently co-edited books: Migrationen. Globale Entwicklungen seit 1850. Wien: Mandelbaum 2007; REGINE. Regularisations in Europe. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications 2009; Gender, Generation and the Family in Internationale Migration. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2010/forthcoming.
• Simon KRAVAGNA (Nr. 6)  studied Political Science at the University of Vienna and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a journalist in Vienna and is working on a doctoral thesis under Professor Eva Kreisky entitled ‘Staat, Migration und Kriminalität: Die selektive Behandlung schwarzer Drogendealer’.
• Axel KREIENBRINK (Nr. 8)  graduated in History and Political Science. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. on the implications of the transformation of Spain from a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Currently, he is researcher at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Nuremberg.
• Andrea KREMSER (Nr. 15)  studies International Development and Education at the University of Vienna, focusing on critical colonial studies, racism studies, Critical Whiteness and Gender Studies. She is currently a student assistant with the International Development programme at the University of Vienna and is writing her diploma thesis.
• Miša KRENČEYOVÁ (Nr. 15/ 18/ 37/ 43) teaches at various universities and universities of applied sciences in Austria and Germany and works as a freelance trainer on social justice and anti-discrimination. She completed a degree in International Development and a doctorate in African Studies at the University of Vienna. Her teaching and research interests include power and empowerment, visual representation and Cultural Studies, gender, (anti-)racism, transculturality, diversity and intersectionality.
• Florian KROBB (Nr. 33)  is Professor of German at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His recent books include Erkundungen im Überseeischen. Wilhelm Raabe und die Füllung der Welt (2009); Phantastik – Völkischer Aufbruch – Jugendliteratur. Wilhelm Matthießen (1891-1965): Werke und Kontexte (2013); and Vorkoloniale Afrika-Penetrationen. Diskursive Vorstöße ins „Herz des großen Continents“ in der deutschen Reiseliteratur ca. 1850-1890 (2017).
• Rahel KÜHNE-THIES (Nr. 29)  B.A. History and English, student of African history at Leibniz University in Hanover (Germany).
• Daniel KÜNZLER (Nr. 36)  is interim Professor for Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth and lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Zurich where he studied Sociology, Political Science and Media Studies. He has done several years of research in West Africa and East Africa with a special focus on Kenya. His research interests include social policies and popular culture, especially films, rap music and football. E-Mail: daniel.kuenzler@unifr.ch
• Lonita KUYUMJI (Nr. 3)  studied Political Science, International Development and Arabic Studies. Her research focuses on cultural and social tensions between European Union countries and the Arab world.
• Omolola A. LADELE (Nr. 32)  holds a PhD in English from Nigeria’s premier University. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Lagos State University Ojoo, Lagos, Nigeria where she teaches several graduate and undergraduate level courses including: African literature, Women and Gender Studies, Feminist literature, Literary theory. She has presented papers at international and local conferences, and these have appeared in peer-reviewed local and international journals.
• Renaud LAGABRIELLE (Nr. 11)  holds a doctorate in French literary studies from the University of Vienna. His research interests include Gender, Gay and Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, French children's and young adult literature, and francophone literatures. He is the author of Sissy Boys et Tom Girls? Représentations des homosexualités dans les romans français pour la jeunesse (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007).
• Martha LAGACE (Nr. 44)  earned a PhD in anthropology from Boston University in 2018. Her field research has been conducted in Rwanda and northern Uganda. She is writing a book about motorcycle-taxi drivers and their world. She is Research Associate at the Public Education Institute of The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc., in Malden, Massachusetts. In Spring 2023 she is teaching African history at Boston College.
• Johan LAGAE (Nr. 28)  is Full Professor of Architectural History with a specific focus on the non- European context at Ghent University. He holds a PhD on colonial architecture in the Belgian Congo and has done extensive research on the colonial and postcolonial built environment of Central Africa. Having published numerous articles, chapters and books, Johan Lagae has also (co-curated) several Congo related exhibitions, such as The Memory of Congo. The Colonial Era (2005) and Congo belge en images (2010).
• Günther LANIER (Nr. 5)  is a political economist and former banker who has taught since the early 1990s, including at the Department of Ethnology of the University of Vienna and as Head of Humanities and the Arts at the United World College of India. He is currently based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where his work includes facilitating school partnerships and supporting an anti-excision initiative.
• Sebastian LASCHET (Nr. 48)  currently works as a project manager for the Tanzanian non-governmental organisation Jamii Forums in Dar es Salaam. Previously, he completed an MA in African Studies at the University of Vienna and a BA in African Development Geography at the University of Bayreuth. During his studies he was also a student assistant with the International Catholic Mission Society missio Aachen e.V. Following his school-leaving examinations, he undertook ten months of voluntary service with Caritas in the Diocese of Solwezi, Zambia. His research interests include German colonial history and its remembrance, the history of the Catholic Church in Africa, German policy towards Africa, and international cooperation, especially diplomatic relations between African and European states. His publications include ‘Deutsche Außenpolitik zwischen Idealismus und Pragmatismus: Fallstricke einer eindimensionalen Kolonialismusdebatte am Beispiel Tansanias’ (with Tillmann Feltes, in KAS-Auslandsinformationen, 2025) and ‘Tansanias furchtlose Freiheitsarchitekten’ (in kontinente – Eine Welt. Ein Magazin, 5/2023, pp. 16–17). His doctoral research examines German–Tanzanian relations from 1990 to 2024.
• Wei LEI  is currently a postdoctoral fellow with China Radio International and Communication University of China. Her research interests include Chinese media studies, communication and Chinese society, and transnational communication. Her research in the field of Chinese media and communication focuses on the history and the contemporary development of radio in China. She completed a Ph.D. thesis on radio and social transformation in China at the University of Technology Sydney. With the current position, she is looking at the practices and influences of Chinese media in East Africa.
• Roman LOIMEIER (Nr. 2)  studied Ethnology, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology in Freiburg, London and Bayreuth. His research focuses on Islamic societies in Africa, and he has conducted research in Syria, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria and Zanzibar. He is currently a senior research assistant at the Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Bayreuth, where he leads a project on Islamic education in East Africa within Collaborative Research Centre 560, ‘Lokales Handeln in Afrika im Kontext globaler Einflüsse’.
• Christine LUDL (Nr. 14)  finished her PhD in 2008 at the Free University of Berlin, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and the affiliated Center of International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris. She is currently working for the Centre Marc Bloch, Centre Franco-Allemand de Recherches en Sciences Sociales, in Berlin.
• Elisa LUDWIG (Nr. 43)  works in migrant counselling and also supports people affected by violence as an adviser and legal proceedings companion. In her university work and as an author, moderator and speaker, she is particularly concerned with challenging and weakening structures of oppression and inequality in the capitalist era. She is currently developing a framework for institutional responses to racism between neighbours in municipal housing.
• Mike LÜDMANN (Nr. 22)  holds degrees in Psychology and Philosophy. He studied at the Universities of Oldenburg and Trier and currently lectures at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His main interests are philosophy of mind, the psychology of aggression, violence and bullying, and cognitive and social aspects of psychological development.
• Elísio MACAMO (Nr. 20)  is tenure track assistant professor of African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
• Neil MACMASTER (Nr. 12)  His research interests include the Algeria War, French decolonization, migration, racism, and Islam in Europe. His publications include Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62 (Macmillan, 1997); Racism in Europe, 1870-2000 (Palgrave, 2001); and with Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is soon to complete a book, Burning the Veil: military propaganda and the ‘emancipation’ of women during the Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).
• Tenywa Aloysius MALAGALA (Nr. 41) is a senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies, Gulu University, Uganda. He holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law. He teaches and supervises both master’s and PhD students in conflict transformation studies, human rights, refugee law and transitional Justice. He designed an MSc in Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crisis Management, among other courses at the institute of Peace and Strategic studies. His forthcoming publication, “Negotiating the Safety of Strangers in Protracted Crisis Spaces: A Human rights Perspective” will be published in a special issue, The Safety of Strangers: Humanitarian Protection and the Politics of Authority to Keep Strangers Safe. He is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning lead for the Gulu University Project on Transforming Employability for Social change in East Africa (TESCEA). A project funded by Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform (SPHEIR). He was also the Uganda promoter of the Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Northern Uganda, a five-year research—based project funded by Flemish Universities and implemented by the University of Antwerp, Uganda Martyrs and Gulu University.
• Buata Bundu MALELA (Nr. 42)  is a habilitated senior lecturer in francophone literatures at the University of Mayotte and an associate researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He specialises in francophone literatures, literary theory and popular music. His monographs include Les Écrivains afroantillais à Paris (1920-1960) : Stratégies et postures identitaires (Paris: Karthala, ‘Lettres du Sud’, 2008); Aimé Césaire et la relecture de la colonialité du pouvoir (preface by Jean Bessière, Paris: Anibwe, 2019); La réinvention de l’écrivain francophone contemporain (preface by Paul Aron, Paris: éditions du CERF, ‘Cerf Patrimoines’, 2019); and Édouard Glissant. Du poète au penseur (preface by Romuald Fonkoua, Paris: Hermann, ‘Savoir Lettres’, 2020). He has co-edited several collections, including Position(s) du sujet francophone with Hans Färnlöf (Paris: éditions du Cerf, ‘Patrimoines’, 2021).
• Marina MANCINELLI (Nr. 1)  studied Comparative Literature in Rome and is a doctoral candidate in African Studies at the University of Vienna. Her main regional interests are Tunisia and Egypt. She currently lives in Brussels, where she previously worked as an assistant in the European Parliament.
• Irmi MARAL-HANAK (Nr. 1/ 3/ 18/ 21) is a Lecturer at the Department of African Studies and in the International Development elective programme. Her research focuses on Kiswahili teaching and literature, communication and development, discourse analysis and feminist approaches to development, with a regional focus on East Africa.
• Caroline MARASZTO (Nr. 4/ 43) Disco Cavallo. She studied Education at the University of Vienna with a focus on diversity and inequality. She is training to become a psychotherapist, works independently as an equine-assisted therapist and researches intersectionality, anti-racism and behavioural studies.
• Laurence MARFAING (Nr. 8)  is researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (Zentrum Moderner Orient) in Berlin. She is currently working on a project on Senegalese migrants in Mauritania and Morocco.
• Christa MARKOM (Nr. 43)  is a social and cultural anthropologist currently working as a postdoctoral university assistant at the Department of Education of the University of Vienna. Her research interests include educational anthropology, textbook studies, intersectionality, racism studies and digital inclusion.
• Aminata Cécile MBAYE (Nr. 42) is a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) scholarship holder and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen’s University from May 2021 to April 2023. Previously, she has been Assistant Professor of Romance and Comparative Studies at the University of Bayreuth, since 2013, and Deputy Director of the Gender and Diversity Office with the Africa Multiple Cluster in Bayreuth. Her primary research focuses on same-sex intimacy and queer aesthetic in Senegal and francophone African countries.
• Esther K. MBITHI Dr (Nr. 47)  has vast experience teaching English and French in the Kenyan education system as well as the British IGCSE, with an interest in creative writing. She reads literature in five languages and is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, Linguistics, and Foreign Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Sylvère MBONDOBARI (Nr. 17)  is a Maître-Assistant in General and Comparative Literature at Omar Bongo University in Libreville, Gabon, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. His research focuses on comparative mythopoetics, crime fiction, intermediality and sites of memory in culture and literature.
• Tom Michael MBOYA (Nr. 39/ 41) is an Associate Professor of African Literary and Popular Culture Studies in the School of Arts and Social Sciences of Moi University, Kenya. He is a poet and an award–winning short story writer who has published extensively in the Kenyan mass media. As an academic, Mboya mainly researches the popular culture of the Luo of East Africa, focusing on popular music, which he uses as a lens through which to perceive the complex social and political movements in the east African region from below. His most recent book is the monograph Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s: Okatch Biggy Live! at “The Junction” (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019).
• Henning MELBER (Nr. 16/ 23/ 26/ 33/ 35/ 41/ 49)  came to Namibia as a son of immigrants in 1967, where he joined SWAPO in 1974. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and obtained a PhD in Political Sciences (1980) and Sociology (Habilitation in Development Studies 1992) at the University of Bremen. He was Director of The Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992-2000), Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute (2000-2006) and Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006-2012), both in Uppsala/Sweden. As Associate and Director emeritus/Senior Advisor respectively he remains affiliated to both institutions. He is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria (since 2012) and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (since 2013), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London (since 2015), and was President of The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) from 2017 to 2023. In 2018 he was ranked a B2 scholar (“considerable international recognition for the high quality and impact of his/her recent research outputs”) by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).
• Ismay MILFORD (Nr. 34)  is a PhD candidate in the department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute, Florence. Her thesis explores the work and intellectual output of a generation of anticolonial activists from Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia, who sought to forge contacts beyond the borders of their respective colonial territories, during the period 1952-64. This fits within a broader project of mapping the history of anticolonial thought and its relationship to narratives of decolonization.
• Mussie Tsehaye MIRACH MA BA (Nr. 49) is lecturer at the Department of English at the College of Business and Social Sciences (CBSS), Adi-Keih, Eritrea. He earned his BA in Eritrean Languages and Literatures (CBSS) in Adi-Keih, Eritrea and her MA in English Literature at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. His area of interests are: written and oral literature of East Africa; manuscript studies of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
• Constance MUDONDO (Nr. 50)  is a Lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda. Her academic work primarily focuses on land conflicts and rural livelihoods in Uganda. She is currently a researcher on a project titled "Situated Choices, Student Identities, and Agencies for University Education in Uganda," a research project focusing on students’ choices in the Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. She has worked on a couple of projects in Uganda that aim at building community resilience.
• Hannah MÜHLPARZER (Nr. 42)  holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.A. in Romance Studies. The Master thesis she is currently writing in the FWF-funded project „Interpretation of Childbirth in Early Modern Spain“ deals with representations of death as birth and birth as death in baroque and neobaroque literature. Apart from this, her research interests include the role of art in representing the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 and literary translation.
• Denis MUHANGI (Nr. 41)  is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at Makerere University. He has researched in the areas of social protection, child welfare, governance, sexual and reproductive health, and preventive health, with specific focus on malaria and HIV. He also has particular interest in decentralized governance, and the role of non-state actors in development processes. Most of his research work has focused on issues affecting vulnerable populations including women, children, and persons with disability. Denis Muhangi is also actively engaged in collaborative work with government and non-government institutions to promote inclusive development. He holds a PhD from Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
• Goran MUSIĆ PhD (Nr. 49)  is a researcher and lecturer at the Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe (University of Vienna). He is a social historian of labor in East-Central and Southeast Europe, approaching the field from a broader disciplinary background in Global History, Nationalism Studies and Political Economy. After earning a PhD degree in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, he held positions at the University of Graz and Central European University. He is the author of Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class: A Story of Two Self-Managed Factories (CEU Press, 2021) which tells the story of industrial labor in socialist Yugoslavia. His current research project advances knowledge about Yugoslavia's 'socialist globalisation' through the example of Yugoslav companies in Zambia.
• Jason MUSYOKA (Nr. 33)  is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Human Economy Programme, at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also a guest lecturer in Development Studies at the department of Anthropology, University of Pretoria. Jason’s academic research interests include South Africa’s Black Middle Classes, African Economic History, Economic Geography and Development Economics.
• Kassim MWANIKA (Nr. 50)  is a Research Officer at the Department of Research Services of the Parliament of Uganda. He is currently engaged in legislative research where he supports evidence-based legislation through committee briefs, routine field and desk-based studies. His research is erected on multiple qualifications in Development studies (Gulu University), MA Rural Development (Makerere University), MSc. International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies (the LSE), PhD Sociology (Makerere University) and PhD in Social Work from the University of Gothenburg. He is also currently involved in critical scholarship in areas of local knowledge, research ethics and youth livelihood research.
• Resty NAIGA (Nr. 46)  studied for her PhD at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria. She is currently a Senior Lecturer, Head and Chair of the Department of Development Studies at Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. Her research interests include water governance, community participation, refugee studies, peace and conflict studies, collective action, and gender. She has won several international fellowships such as the African Peacebuilding Research Network (APN), the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF), and Andrew W Mellon. She has published on community-based water management, collective action, water conflicts, and gender.
• Daniel Georges NANA KOMEY (Nr. 48) has held a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Douala, Cameroon, since December 2021. He is a research fellow at the Centre National d’Éducation, a social-science research institution attached to Cameroon's Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation in Yaoundé. He has published several articles on Pentecostalism and social space, social representations of electoral phenomena, and the decolonisation of knowledge and colonial historical anthropology. His latest article, published in 2024, is ‘Décoloniser les rapports de tournées administratives au Cameroun’, in Emmanuel Droit, Anne Kwashik and Silke Mende (eds), France, Allemagne, Afrique/ Frankreich, Deutschland, Afrika. Représentations, transferts, relations/ Repräsentationen, Transfers, Beziehungen, pp. 124–139.
• Gana NDIAYE (Nr. 44)  is an assistant professor of anthropology and ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Beloit College. Ndiaye’s academic interests include Brazil-West Africa relations, transnational Islam, African languages, and Muslim Africa's ʻAjamī literary traditions.
• Roland N. NDILLE (Nr. 45)  is Associate Professor and Head of Department of History at the University of Buea-Cameroon. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of the Free State in South Africa. He is the convenor of the Annual Cameroon History Postgraduate Conference (CHPC) and Principal Investigator of the Global South Epistemologies Research Lab www.gloserc.org. His research interests are in History of Religion, History and Policy of Education, History of Science and Technology and Provenance Research all with a Decolonial perspective.
• Abdoulaye NGOM (Nr. 37)  is a doctor of sociology and lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. He is also an associate researcher at the ʺEuropean Dynamicsʺ laboratory (UMR 7367‐CNRS). His research interests include international migration and inter‐ethnic relations, illegal migration to Europe, migration policies, borders, and types of mobilization in migration contexts.
• Iris NIKISCHER (Nr. 9)  holds a diploma in Education and a Master of Education (M.Ed.). She is currently studying International Development, with Education as her elective specialism, at the University of Vienna.
• Teckson NJOVU MA (Nr. 49)  is a graduate in history from Mulungushi University, Zambia. His research examined the history of the Kabwe lead mines and their impact on the socioeconomic development of Kabwe town between 1902 and 1994. During his undergraduate studies he taught history in a secondary school and served as an intern at the Lusaka National Museum and the Zambian Education Broadcasting Services. He has also worked as a learning support teacher at the American International school of Lusaka and worked as research assistance on two different projects the first been “A socialist workplace in Post-colonial Africa: A connected History of the Yugoslav workforce in Zambia” in 2023-24 and other “Extractive disruptions and the rise of disability movements” during 2025. He also participated in different conferences such as the inclusion conference program in Lusaka and the AfrikanistInnenntag 2025 at the University of Vienna.
• uMbuso weNKOSI (Nr. 45)  is a versatile researcher – he has focused on labour studies, industrial policy, economic development, agrarian studies, archives, and social theory. He served as the editor of the Global Labour Column (GLC) and the South African Labour Bulletin (SALB). He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), University of Johannesburg. His Book “These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa” will be published in September 2023 by Wits University Press.
• Max Armin NOSBERS (Nr. 40)  studies Economics and African Studies at the University of Vienna. His particular regional focus is Algeria, its history and its present.
• Samwel Moses NTAPANTA (Nr. 50) is an ethnographer specializing in contemporary urbanism along the western Indian Ocean coast, particularly focusing on East Africa. His research delves into themes of coloniality, consumption and discarding, the debris of late capitalism, repairing and recycling economies, and the anthropology of money.
• Germain NYADA (Nr. 42)  holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Bayreuth, an M.Ed in second language acquisition from the Higher Teacher Training College (ENS-Yaounde) and a certificate from the Université de Montréal. He has taught at the Goethe-Institut (Yaounde and Montreal), Concordia University and Collège de Maisonneuve. Nyada is currently a lecturer at the University of Yaounde I and at the Institut de Technologie Agroalimentaire du Québec. He also works as a teacher for the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration du Québec. As member of different scienti"c organizations, Nyada has carried out research and published three monographs, several articles on literature, "lm and history as well as a novel. His main research interests are writings of the self, interculturality, literary theory, war cinema and literature as well as Cameroon under German colonial administration (1884-1916).
• Francis B. NYAMNJOH (Nr. 29)  is a B2 NRF rated Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape town, Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science, and Fellow of the African Academy of Science. He researches, inter alia, ethnography and fiction as intimate strangers in the study of Africa.
• Karin OBERAIGNER (Nr. 1)  studies African Studies in Vienna and is currently spending a semester abroad at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
• Danièle OBONO (Nr. 20)  is a PhD candidate at University Paris 1-Pantheon-Sorbonne, France.
• James Odhiambo OGONE (Nr. 29) is a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) doctoral fellow at the Department of Anglphone Literatures and Cultures, University of Potsdam, Germany. Mr. Ogone holds a Master of Arts degree in Literature from Maseno University, Kenya. He has a wealth of experience in teaching literature first at several Kenyan high schools, then Kisii University, Kenya, and currently at the University of Potsdam. Mr Ogone has published several journal articles and book chapters in the areas of African popular culture, local African epistemologies, and the contextual adaptation of media and communication technologies in contemporary African societies.
• Nathan Oyori OGECHI (Nr. 3/ Nr. 9) holds a PhD in Afrikanistik from the Asien-Afrika Institut, Universität Hamburg . He is a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Kiswahili and Other African Languages at Moi University , Kenya . His research interests include language contact, linguistic human rights, language education, HIV/AIDS, communications and ethnosemantics among others.
• Timothy OGENE (Nr. 31)  is a Graduate of St. Edward’s University and the University of Oxford. He is the author of two forthcoming books: a collection of poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2016) and a novel (Holland House Books, 2017).
• Chinyere OKAFOR Dr (Nr. 47)  poet, playwright and fiction writer is a Professor of English and Women's Studies, Director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at Wichita State University. An alumnus of University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), University College (Cardiff, UK), and University of Nigeria, (Nsukka, Nigeria), she did postdoctoral work on gender politics and poetics of Masking at Cornell University. Her research is interdisciplinary involving transnational gender, literature and theater, diversity education and mask communication. She is author of the book Gender, Performance and Communication: African Ikeji Mask Festivals of Aro and Diaspora (Africa World Press, 2017). Her published creative works include The New Toyi Toyi (a play, Africa World Press, 2008), It Grows In Winter and Other Poems (Africa World Press, 2008) He Wants to Marry Me Again and Other Stories (Kraftgriots, 1996), Campus Palavar and Other Plays (Kraftgriots, 1996).
• Katharina OKE (Nr. 25)  holds master’s degrees in journalism and African studies and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Oxford. Her research will focus on print culture in Lagos, Nigeria, c.1880-1930.
• Betty J. OKOT (Nr. 41)  was a Co-Investigator on the Elrha-2HC funded REFLECT project on Refugee Experiences and Responses to Covid-19 at Makerere University (Department of Social Works and Social Administration). She has wide experience in research and teaching in Higher Education - especially teacher education and training. She has interdisciplinary research interests with a strong bias in these fields: the study of peoples and cultures; sociology of land; legal anthropology; African studies – especially literature, history, and traditions; indigenous knowledge; migration, diasporas, and refugees; international development and sustainability; conflict and peacebuilding; gender, and culture and violence. She continues to actively work, write, and publish on these topics. She is a Thematic Research fellow, exploring the influences of the past on contemporary understanding of customary laws in post-conflict East African contexts such as Northern Uganda, supported by the British Institute in East Africa (BIEA).
• Mutiat Titilope OLADEJO (Nr. 45) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, African Humanities Program. She recently published the book titled “A History of Textiles and Fashion in Twentieth Century Yoruba World”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2022.
• Kehinde OLAVODE (Nr. 20)  is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• Taiwo OLORUNTOBA-OJU (Nr. 11) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern European Languages, University of Ilorin in Nigeria and has taught Stylistics, Drama and Creative Writing at the University Level for about two decades. His book publications include Language and Style in Nigerian Drama and Theatre (1998). Oloruntoba-Oju has been a fellow of the British Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Nordic Africa Institute, among others. His recent research is in language, gender and sexuality in drama and film. Also, a creative writer and dramatist, he has published poetry and drama and has written several television and film scripts.
• Sharon Adetutu OMOTOSO (Nr. 45) is a Senior Research Fellow (Gender/Media Studies) at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, where she heads the Institute's Women's Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC). She is Director at the Centre for Applied Ethics and Political Communication in Africa (CAEPOCOM AFRICA), an alumna of the COADY Institute, St. Francis Xavier University Canada, a Chartered Mediator & Conciliator, and Fellow of the African Multiple Cluster, Universität Bayreuth, Germany. Her areas of research interest include: Applied Ethics, Media & Gender Studies, Political Communications, Philosophy of Education, Socio-Political Philosophy, and African Philosophy in which she has published significantly.
• Rasheed ONAGUN Ph.D. (Nr. 49) bagged Ph.D. in 2022 at the University of Ilorin. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin. He teaches courses in African and Global History. He has published in reputable journals such as: Colonial Public Health Services in Ilorin Province, 1900 to 1960. West Bohemian Historical Review. Published by Department of Historical Sciences of the West Bohemia in Pilsen and Department of History of University in Hamburg, Czech Republic. Vol. XIII. Issue 2: 177-202. Available online at wbhr.cz/index.php/issues. Diplomacy as a Veritable Tool of Sustainability in Multiracial Ilorin Emirate Polity of the 19th Century. Lapai Journal of Nigerian History. 15(1); 71-84. Published by Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.
• Leonard Obina ONWUEGBUCHE (Nr. 47) is a lecturer with the Department of English and Literary Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He teaches courses in African American, Caribbean and African literature, and his research interest includes Diasporic Literature, Postcolonial Writing and Gender Studies.
• Kwame OPOKU (Nr. 32)  is an independent scholar who has several publications on restitution and other cultural matters as well as on philosophy of law, international law, comparative law, African traditional law, especially land law and family law.
• Chioma Carol OPARA PhD (Nr. 47) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and former Director, Foundation Studies Unit, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. With specialization in writing, comparative literature and gender, her major research interests are women, World Englishes, literary theory and cultural studies. She has written extensively on African literature and has several publications which include books, chapters in edited volumes and articles in journals. She has served as West African Coordinator, Women Caucus African Literature Association (WOCALA); Council Member, International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA); Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD). She was for several years the editor of Journal of Gender Studies – a multidisciplinary annual publication.
• Patrick W. OTIM (Nr. 44)  is an Assistant Professor of History at Bates College, Maine, USA. He received his PhD in African history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2016 and started teaching at Bates in the same year. Patrick’s scholar‐ ship focuses on the late precolonial and colonial history of northern Uganda. His current book manuscript, which is under contract with Ohio University Press in the New African Series, explores the transition from precolonial to colonial era. Patrick’s most recent scholarly works have appeared in History in Africa, and Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Alphabetical order P–Z

Please note: Each author’s position as stated here was correct at the time of their most recent contribution to STICHPROBEN and may have changed since then.

• Ulrich PALLUA (No. 16) is Lecturer in English at Innsbruck University. Recently published books: Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age. Heidelberg: Winter 2005; (Re)Figuring Human Enslavement: Images of Power, Violence and Resistance. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2009 (co-editor).
• Felicity PALMER (No. 11) is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation deals with the interface between ideas of freedom and the sexual experiences of women and children in the novels of Yvonne Vera and Calixthe Beyala.
• Calvin Patrick Bandah PANGA (No. 45) is a historian and lecturer-researcher at the École Normale Supérieure de Bertoua, Cameroon. A former recipient of a Gerda Henkel Foundation scholarship, he wrote his doctoral thesis on German colonial rule in Cameroon. His research focuses on the looting of works of art and questions of restitution. He has published several articles on these topics and is a member of the Cameroon Historical Society and the Swiss Society for Provenance Research.
• Lotte PELCKMANS (No. 20) is a lecturer at the Anthropology and Development Studies department of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Susana PEREIRA BASTOS (No. 8) holds a Ph.D. from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology and member of SociNova, a Research Centre on migration at the same University.
• Clemens PFEFFER (No. 15/ 22) studies International Development at the University of Vienna. His principal research interest is German colonial and missionary history in South West Africa.
• Paula PFOSER (No. 29) studied Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, specialising in postcolonial studies, and works independently in the cultural and media sectors. Her publication „Bilder der Dekolonisation. Repräsentationen Afrikas südliche der Sahara im frühen österreichischen Fernsehen (1957-1965)“ was scheduled to appear with zaglossus Verlag in spring 2016.
• Joschka PHILIPS (No. 32) is a postdoctoral fellow from the Centre for African Studies Basel. His doctoral dissertation "Crystallizing Contention" (2016) was supervised by Elísio Macamo and inquires into youth and urban protests, mainly in Conakry and Kampala. Joschka currently works on transnational conspiracies and conspiracy theories in Guinea-Conakry, a project that is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). He is the author of "Ambivalent Rage" (Editions L'Harmattan, 2013).
• Joy PHIRI BA (No. 49) is a Master’s student in History at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. Her academic background is in History, with a research focus on labour organisation and state institutions/ enterprises in postcolonial Africa. Her current thesis, “The United Bus Company of Zambia: A Window into Postcolonial State Enterprise and Public Service, 1970–1995,” examines how public transport contributed to national development and governance in Zambia. She also has a background in archival research and analysis and has worked on the project titled “A socialist workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A connected history of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia” during 2023-24.
• Verena PLUTZAR (No. 19) is a co-founder and coordinator of the SprachenRechte network, an adult educator and university lecturer, and was at the time deputy director of a school for street children in Nairobi. From 2007 to 2010 she was a research assistant at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna; between 1998 and 2007 she worked for the Projekt Integrationshaus association.
• Ronald POKOYSKI (No. 10) studies History and Religious Studies at the University of Hanover. His areas of interest include southern Africa, Eastern Europe (particularly Latvia), the internet as a source for historians, new religious movements, and religion and cyberspace.
• Robert PRIEWASSER (No. 27) born 1967 in Vienna, studied History (Bachelor) and Global History (Master, graduated in 2012), since 2012 Arabic and Islamic Studies (Bachelor) at the University of Vienna. He is the author of the book “Tiran Island and Straits of Tiran: Unexplained Sovereignty over an Island in the Context of the Arab-Israeli Conflict” (Saarbrücken, 2013).
• Vanessa PRINZ (No. 3/ 8) holds a degree in Communication Studies/African Studies and Sociology/International Development from the University of Vienna. Her research interests are African migration and social implications of migration to Europe.
• Viola PRÜSCHENK (No. 17) is a doctoral candidate in African Literatures at Humboldt University of Berlin and in Comparative Literature at the Université du Québec in Montreal. Her research focuses particularly on literary audiovisuality in African and Caribbean literatures.
• Daniella RAFAELY (No. 45) is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She uses an ethnomethodological, conversation-analytic approach to the study of social interaction, social categories, and common-sense knowledge. Her research utilizes a range of everyday settings in order to examine the methods by which morality is reproduced as a social institution in everyday interactions.
• Oluwafunminiyi RAHEEM (No. 41) is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also a doctoral student in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin where he is completing his thesis on the African context of holy wells in the Yoruba towns of Ile-Ife and Ondo, southwest Nigeria. Raheem’s research interests intersect many themes within African studies among which include Sacred Water Bodies (Holy Wells); Social and Cultural History; Yoruba Islam and Yoruba Belief Systems and Contemporary Popular Culture.
• Brian RAFTOPOULOS (No. 31) is Director of Research, Solidarity Peace Trust, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape.
• Manuel João RAMOS (No. 41) is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisboa and researcher of the Centre of International Studies at the same institute. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics within Anthropology and African Studies, notably on Ethiopian history, politics, and migratory flows. He brings together anthropologic research and graphic production. From 2009-2014, Ramos was board member of AEGIS - African Studies in Europe. Further, he is the director of the Central Library of African Studies at ISCTE.
• Thomas REINHARDT (No. 16) is a Privatdozent in Social Anthropology in Frankfurt and teaches African Studies and Anthropology at the universities of Cologne and Munich. His recent books include Claude Lévi-Strauss zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius Verlag, 2008) and Geschichte des Afrozentrismus: Imaginiertes Afrika und afroamerikanische Identität (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2007).
• Brigitte REINWALD (No. 10) is Professor of African History at the University of Hanover. Her teaching and research focus on the social and cultural history of West and East Africa, including gender, generational and family relations, urbanisation, iconographic and audiovisual media, translocal historical spaces, and cultural representations.
• Uta REUSTER-JAHN (No. 14) has been lecturer in African Philology at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz, Germany. She has done her doctoral dissertation on folk narratives of the Mwera in Tanzania. Recently her research is focusing on Swahili youth language, Swahili popular literature and the new Swahili music called Bongo Flava. She has published numerous articles on these topics and is a co-editor of the online journal “Swahili Forum” (http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/SwaFo/).
• Pascal REY (No. 30) is an agro-economist and a geographer (PhD thesis on local powers in Costal Guinea). He mainly worked on local organizations in developing countries (India, Rwanda, Peru), particularly in Guinea where he has been developing for 12 years an approach based on the understanding of the decision-making processes at the local scale and has been focusing on approaches for the implementation of corporate social responsibility. He is Insuco’s Chief Executive Officer, an international consulting firm in social engineering. He is used to publish on issues relating to land tenure, natural resource management, decision-making processes, and mining sector in South countries.
• João Fusco RIBEIRO (No. 46) is a PhD student with a FCT Contemporary History Fellowship at the Political Science Research Centre at the University of Évora, Portugal. He earned a BA in History and Archaeology (2013) and a MA in European and African Historical Studies (2016) from the University of Évora. He worked as an archival researcher on the FCT-funded project “Historical Sources of Transnational Regionalism in Southern Africa: The Liberation Movements and White Africa as Driving Forces (1960-1980)" at CICP. His research focuses on Angolan liberation movements and the decolonization process in Lusophone Africa.
• Alain RICARD (No. 14) is presently Directeur de Recherche (research professor) with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to LLACAN and teaching at the INALCO in Paris. His field is African languages and literatures, including drama and popular literatures. He has published widely on African literature, theatre, and popular culture in French and English and has also produced two films on concert-party.
• Bruno RICCIO (No. 8) is researcher and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Bologna, Italy. He has worked and published on Senegalese migrants and the Italian experience of immigration.
• Martina RIENZNER (No. 18/ 19) graduated in International Development from the University of Vienna. She is working on the project „Sprachwahl in Straf- und Asylverfahren“ and pursuing a doctorate at the Department of African Studies on the topic of 'Biography and Translation'. She is a member of the SprachenRechte network.
• Bettina RITTSTEUER (No. 19) has been a generally sworn and court-certified interpreter for English since 2005 and is a translator (Mag. phil., 2001) for English and Hungarian, specialising in legal translation. She has interpreted in all kinds of court proceedings in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Since 2005 she has studied Law at Johannes Kepler University Linz. She coordinates the English court interpreters' working group within the Austrian Association of Court Interpreters (ÖVGD).
• Marie RODET (No. 7/ 12) received her PhD from the University of Vienna in November 2006. She currently teaches at the Webster University in Vienna. Her research interests include migration history, gender studies, and legal history in West Africa.
• Melanie ROMSTORFER (No. 13) studied African Studies alongside Arabic, French and International Development at the University of Vienna. Her main interests are historical and critical discourse analysis, colonialism and colonial discourse. She is currently writing a doctoral thesis on conflict studies and identity construction.
• Christiane RUDIC (No. 28) holds a Master of Arts in Geographical Development Research on Africa and is a doctoral candidate at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. Her research project examines strategies for financing housing in informal settlements and the potential of microfinance for housing. Her areas of interest include urban development, urban studies, housing provision and financing, and microfinance.
• Kirsten RÜTHER (No. 16/ 28/ 36) is Professor of African History at the Department of African Studies. Her methodological approach is rooted in social and entangled history, with an empirical focus on southern Africa. Her research covers Christianisation and colonialism, health and popular culture, kinship studies, cities and housing. She is a key researcher and supervisor on the interfaculty research platform ‘Mobile Cultures and Societies’, where an interdisciplinary group of doctoral candidates is studying ‘Cultural and Social Mobility’.
• Sara Jerop RUTO (No. 3) teaches at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Her principal research interest is non-formal education. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Education at Heidelberg University.
• Egide RWAMATWARA (No. 8) holds a MPhil degree in Race and Ethnic Relations from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Action from the University of Geneva. He is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe doing research on survival strategies among refugees in Africa.
• Farah SAAD (No. 43) is a clinical social worker and political scientist. She co-founded frida, an independent service providing free legal advice on asylum and immigration law, and works in various contexts with people who have experienced forced migration and intersectional discrimination. Together with Parissima Taheri, MSc MA, she runs Wir Sind Auch Wien, a platform dedicated to the mental health of BIPoC. She also teaches Social Work at FH Campus Wien and on the Master's programme in Psychology at the University of Vienna.
• Rita SCHÄFER (No. 7) is an anthropologist and was a visiting professor of Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focuses on African women's organisations, gender and development cooperation in Africa, with particular emphasis on southern Africa.
• Marcia C. SCHENCK (No. 34) received her PhD in history at Princeton University (September 2017). Her dissertation is titled Socialist Solidarities and their Aftermath: Histories and Memories of Angolan and Mozambican migrants to the German Democratic Republic, 1975-2015. Currently, she is a fellow of the International Research Center for Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, re:work, at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She published in African Economic History, Labor History, and Atelier and has work forthcoming in Africa. Her research interests include migration history, African history, global history, history of international organizations, micro history, and oral history.
• Walter SCHICHO (No. 1/ 13/ 19/ 21/ 26) is a retired Professor of African History at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. His main areas of work are contemporary African history, development studies and intercultural communication (North–South relations). He leads the projects ‘Colonial Concepts of Development’ and „Sprachwahl bei Verhandlungen mit Verfahrensbeteiligten aus afrikanischen Herkunftsländern in Straf- und Asylverfahren“.
• Marlene SCHILD (No. 26) graduated in International Development in Vienna and worked on her diploma thesis within the ‘Colonial Concepts of Development’ project at the University of Vienna.
• David SCHLAUSS (No. 26) graduated in International Development in Vienna and worked on his diploma thesis within the ‘Colonial Concepts of Development’ project at the University of Vienna.
• Leander SCHNEIDER (No. 44) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. His research focuses on the politics of development, political history in Tanzania, and, most recently, the flow of migrants from China to Africa.
• Marlene SCHNEIDER (No. 37) is a freelance journalist. She studied African Studies at the University of Leipzig (2008–2012) and Humboldt University of Berlin (2012–2016), completing her Master's thesis on radio-play adaptations. Her research interests include Anglophone African literatures, the acoustics of storytelling and transitions between media.
• Tobias SCHNEIDER (No. 48) studied Romance Languages and Literatures and International Development at the University of Vienna, focusing on the cultural and regional studies of Spanish America from the colonial period to the present. After several years in employment, he returned to university to broaden his academic horizons. Since autumn 2021 he has been studying for a Master's degree in African Studies at the University of Vienna. His main interests are decolonisation processes, the history of the African diaspora in Latin America and representations of African societies in film and literature.
• Charlott SCHÖNWETTER (No. 37) is a doctoral candidate and journal editor. She studied Asian and African Area Studies, Gender Studies and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Until 2019 she was a research associate on the DFG-funded project „Afrikanische KindersoldatInnen in Literatur und Film. Repräsentation, Diskurs, Ästhetik“. Her research focuses on child soldiers in literature, gender and narratology.
• Isabel SCHRÖDER (No. 37) studied Asian and African Area Studies at Bachelor's level and Religious and Cultural Studies at Master's level. Since 2017 she has been pursuing a doctorate in African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, researching fictional and testimonial prison literature by women writers from Anglophone and Francophone Africa.
• Thorsten SCHÜLLER (No. 17) is a research associate at the Department of Romance Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on African Romance-language studies, cultural responses to 11 September 2001, literature and popular culture.
• Felix SCHÜRMANN (No. 10/ 31) is a research associate in the LOEWE research priority ‘Tier – Mensch – Gesellschaft’ at the University of Kassel. He researches and teaches African history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, maritime history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the history of early cinema.
• Maida SCHULLER (No. 43) is a social scientist and has been part of the educational project ‘AEWTASS – Advancing Equality Within The Austrian School System’ since 2019. She currently works as a social worker advising people who have been unemployed for extended periods and as an external lecturer at FH Campus Wien. Her research focuses on intersectionality, anti-discrimination, political economy, critical development and racism studies, and Blackness in Austria and globally.
• Anne SCHUMANN (No. 14) is a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has worked on popular music in South Africa, her current focus is on political debates in popular music of Côte d’Ivoire.
• Romana SCHWEIGER (No. 9) studied Law at the University of Vienna, completing her doctorate in January 2004. She attended the Master of Advanced International Studies programme at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (2003–2004). Since March 2004 she has been a university assistant at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology in Vienna (Professor Höpfel's chair). Her research focuses on international criminal law, particularly the law and jurisprudence of international and internationalised tribunals; comparative criminal and criminal procedural law; and human rights protection through criminal law.
• Erwin SCHWEITZER (No. 15) Social anthropologist and PhD research fellow (‘Kollegassistent’) at the Vienna School of Governance/University of Vienna. His research interests include the anthropology of governance, power relations, indigeneity, and South Africa.
• Gloria K. SERUWAGI (No. 41) is faculty at Makerere University in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration. Her training is in socio-behavioural sciences and public health. She has several years of experience in research, university teaching, policy, and programming. Her professional interests include policy and systems research, implementation research and realist evaluation, forced migration, Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI). Passionate about multidisciplinary approaches, equity and social justice, Gloria currently leads and supports several initiatives seeking to improve outcomes for disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalised (DVM) populations. Most of her work is in the social sector (health, education, livelihoods) – in communities with women, children, youth and forced migrants. System strengthening, multilevel engagement, policy/programme support and advocacy are embedded in her work.
• Serigne SEYE (No. 42) is a lecturer and researcher at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He completed a doctoral thesis in African literature on the work of Senegalese author Boubacar Boris Diop and has published numerous studies on this writer and other African authors. His research focuses on processes of hybridisation in literary texts and urban cultures. He has published on intermediality, connections between rap and literature, oral literature, intersectionality, and Afropean and postcolonial narratives. He is currently preparing several books, including a biography and a monograph on Boubacar Boris Diop.
• Nadine SIEGERT (No. 34) is a researcher, curator, and publisher with a focus on modern and contemporary arts of the Global South. Currently she is the Deputy Director of Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth and member of the research project Revolution 3.0 at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. She was a Brooks International Fellow at Tate Modern and Delfina Foundation in 2018 and Curator in Residence at Vila Sul, GoetheInstitute in Salvador de Bahia in 2017. She teaches modern and contemporary African arts and curatorial studies at the University of Bayreuth and curated a number of exhibitions such as Feedback: Art, Africa and the 1980 (2018) and FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time (since 2016). Her current research project is on socialist aesthetic modernity in Africa.
• Valter SILVERIO (No. 6) is a sociologist and Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. He undertook doctoral studies at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo. His research interests include racism, minorities and identities.
• Gabriele SLEZAK (No. 18/ 19) is an African Studies scholar and research associate on the project „Sprachwahl in Straf- und Asylverfahren“ (Austrian National Bank) and a lecturer in Bambara and language policy at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. She is a member of the SprachenRechte network. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, multilingualism, Mande languages and communication in Austrian legal proceedings, with a regional focus on Burkina Faso and Mali.
• Erich SOMMERAUER (No. 18) is an African Studies scholar who for many years headed the African Studies specialist library at the University of Vienna.
• Arno SONDEREGGER (No. 1/ 2/ 6/ 10/ 13/ 16/ 18/ 32/ 33/ 35/ 38/ 40/ 48) is Senior Lecturer in African History and Societies at the University of Vienna. His teaching and research focus on African and Global History, the history of racism, and the history of scholarship. His recent books include Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit (three editions: Wiesbaden: S. Marix, 2021 and 2022; Bonn: bpb, 2023) and the second edition of Kurze Geschichte des Alten Afrika: Von den Anfängen bis 1600 (Wiesbaden: Marix, 2024). He edited African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds: Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa (Berlin: Neofelis, 2015) and co-edited five further volumes, including Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas (Lanham: Lexington, 2023), Nord-Süd-Ost-West-Beziehungen: Eine Einführung in die Globalgeschichte (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2015) and Afrika im 20. Jahrhundert: Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Vienna: Promedia, 2011). He has edited four themed issues of Stichproben, most recently Verschiebungen des Möglichen: Umbruchszeiten, globale Momente, Grenzüberschreitungen (No. 40, 2021) and Histories of Pan-African Intellectual Activism (No. 38, 2020). His latest publications on African and global intellectual history appeared in The CLR James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas (30/1–2, 2024) and the edited volume Stimmen des Antikolonialismus: Eine globalhistorische Spurensuche, 1615-1915 (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2025).
• Vanessa SPANBAUER (No. 43) studied History, Contemporary History and Media at the University of Vienna and works as a freelance journalist and historian. She contributes to research projects and exhibitions about Black people and Africans in Vienna. As part of the educational project ‘AEWTASS – Advancing Equality Within The Austrian School System’, she is responsible for workshops on media.
• Barbara SPECHTL (No. 32) studied International Development at the University of Vienna and is studying Environmental and Bioresource Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Her main interests are the use of natural resources, especially land, and gender studies.
• Karlheinz SPITZL (No. 18) studied African Studies (Swahili and Tanzania Studies) and Translation Studies (German, English and French). He is a university lecturer and doctoral candidate researching the recontextualisation of discourses of origin (third-party funding: WWTF 2011–2013).
• Dominik SPÖRKER (No. 31/ 35/ 39/ 45) graduated in African Studies and History from the University of Vienna. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the Department of African Studies. He currently works on provenance research projects at the Weltmuseum Wien and the Natural History Museum Vienna, investigating colonial acquisition contexts. His doctoral dissertation examines the East African collections assembled by the Austro-Hungarian Navy for the Imperial Natural History Museum. His research interests include nineteenth-century East African history, the history of science and (post)colonial provenance research.
• Anna STEINBAUER-HOLZER (No. 43) is a teacher of Geography and Economics, Spanish, Psychology and Philosophy. She contributes to an upper-secondary Geography and Economics textbook published by the Austrian educational publisher Veritas and is part of ‘AEWTASS – Advancing Equality Within The Austrian School System’. Her research interests include textbook analysis and representations of Africa.
• Hanna STEPANIK (No. 36) is part of the research project ‘Popular Culture in Translocal Spaces’ based at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. She holds a doctoral position within the research project and is writing her dissertation at the Department of Development Studies on ‘The role of “Cape Verdean“ popular cultural practices in the context of diasporisation in Lisbon’. She has a diploma degree in Development Studies from the University of Vienna and an MA in ’Media Practice for Development and Social Change’ from the University of Sussex.
• Elke STOCKREITER (No. 3) is an African Studies and Arabic Studies scholar specialising in history and Islamic Studies. Her interests include Islamic history, Islamic law and sociohistorical change in sub-Saharan Africa, with a geographical emphasis on East Africa and Nigeria.
• Alexia STUEFER (No. 19) is a criminal defence lawyer in Vienna.
• Martin STURMER (No. 33) studied African Studies and Journalism and Communication Studies in Vienna. He heads the Salzburg-based news agency afrika.info, which works to promote a nuanced understanding of the African continent. His research focuses on representations of Africa in German-language media, as well as media history and media policy in Tanzania.
• Abdul-Rahman Adebayo SULEIMAN PhD (No. 49) defended his Ph.D dissertation in 2022. Presently, he is a lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin. He focuses on Intergroup Relations. He has published articles in reputable journals some of which are: The Factor of Trade in the Diplomatic Relations between the Nupe People and the Ilorin Emirate. Sejarah: Journal of History Department, University of Malaya. 2 (No. 32); 107-120; Ilorin Emirate Scholars of Nupe Origin’s Role in The Educational Curriculum of The Emirate. Journal of Islamic Educational Research (JIER). Volume 11, Number 1; 1-10, e-ISSN: 0128-2069.
• C.F. Neels SWANEPOEL (No. 39) is an associate professor at the Department of Public Law, University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. His legal career includes a stint as public prosecutor and a number of years as general law practitioner. In 1999, he was appointed as the Director of the University Law Clinic at the University of the Free State. His LLD (2006) highlighted his interest and passion towards the development of an international order of criminal justice. It has led him towards his interest in researching post-colonial human-and humanitarian rights protection in Africa, particularly, in post-democratic South African context. In 2013, he designed and introduced an international criminal law and justice postgraduate module at the UFS with design inputs from Justice Richard Goldstone, former constitutional court judge and chief prosecutor at the ITCY. In 2006 he was appointed as head of the department of law of evidence and procedure, and in 2015, as head of the department of public law. He retires in December 2020 and has been appointed as a research fellow in the department of public law at the UFS.
• Paul SWANEPOEL (No. 24/ 37) is a lecturer in the School of Law, Howard College, University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban, South Africa. His PhD, obtained from the University of Edinburgh, examined the colonial judiciary of Kenya and Tanganyika. His research interests lie in the fields of legal history and jurisprudence.
• Lisa TACKIE (No. 43/ 47) studied African Studies at the University of Vienna and is currently writing her MA thesis in International Development. Her research focuses on resistance, anti-racism, the African diaspora and intersection‐ ality. In addition to her work as co-director of the theatre group 'Sternenstaub' for Black children and as a trainer for school workshops and trainings on anti- racism and civil courage for organisations such as D!SRUPT, Schwarze Frauen Community and asylkoordination österreich, she is currently working at the University of Vienna on the Erasmus+ project 'HELCI - Higher Education Learning Community for Inclusion'.
• Agnes TAIBL (No. 16) studies International Development at the University of Vienna and spent a period at the University of Dar es Salaam in 2009. Her interests include identity construction, civil society and participation, with a geographical focus on East Africa.
• Julian TAPPRICH (No. 11) studies Comparative Literature and Photography in Vienna and spent a year studying Lettres modernes in Paris.
• Tanja TÄUBER (No. 4) is a social anthropologist. Her diploma thesis is entitled Yvonne Veras Werke im Licht theoretischer Konzepte zu Afrikanischem Feminismus und Gewalt. Eine ethnologische Studie zur Funktion eines literarischen Textes.
• Rémi Armand TCHOKOTHE (No. 42/ 50) is professor of Comparative Literature with a Focus on African Literatures at the University of Vienna and associate lecturer at the Université de Dembéni, Mayotte. He is a researcher with a keen interest in outreach activities and has worked on Swahili, Wolof and Comorian literatures and published the open access monograph: « Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme ». Visa Balladur, Kwassa Kwassa, (Im)mobilité et Géopoét(h)ique relationnelle aux Comores (2023). He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Austrian Science funded research project ‘Poetics of Relational and Intersectional Identities: African-Diasporic Writers in Austria’.
• Meredith TERRETTA (No. 12) is Assistant Professor of history at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. She specializes in contemporary Central African history, emphasizing the themes of gender, nationalism, and postcoloniality. Her work explores the interstices between local, state, and global political processes. Her previous research on the history of the Union des populations du Cameroun has appeared in the Journal of African History.
• Klaus TEZOKENG (No. 46) holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Pretoria, where he also served as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures. His research interests include literary environmental criticism, cultural animal studies, and posthumanism.
• Nadja THOMA (No. 10) studied Ancient Greek, Music Education and German as a Foreign Language, and subsequently Middle Eastern Studies. She is a music educator and freelance journalist. Her interests include the pedagogy of ethnomusicology, Arabic music and intercultural communication. She has undertaken research visits to the Middle East.
• Malte THRAN (No. 16/ 22) is writing a doctoral dissertation on land reform in Namibia at the University of Bremen and works as a lecturer at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg). His research interests include poverty, critique of ideology and racism.
• Corrado TORNIMBERI (No. 8) has studied at the University of Bologna (Italy) and at SOAS London (UK) and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cagliari (Italy). He is a research associate at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King’s College London and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dip. di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna.
• Helene TRAUNER (No. 8) graduated in social anthropology. She is a researcher at the ZSI (Centre for Social Innovation) in Vienna. Her research interests are migration and migration policies: anti- discrimination, labour market, integration, and ethnic minorities.
• Emem Michael UDO (No. 48) is a Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. With more than ten years of experience teaching African History in the University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria and attending international conferences on the African Diaspora, her keen interest and passion for African Studies has driven her research on issues relating to Africa and the African Diaspora. She aspires to push the frontiers of scholarship for extensive research and expansion of African studies worldwide.
• Evelyn Nwachukwu URAMA Dr (No. 47) is a lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria where she teaches English language and literature courses. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Nigeria. She is a fellow of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/ African Humanities Program and Leeds University Centre for African Studies/ Leeds Art and Humanities Research Institute (LUCAS/LAHRI).
• Judith VAN ALLEN (No. 23) has a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is a long-time scholar-activist and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She has written on the politican economy of African women’s activism since 1972.
• Alex VEIT (No. 20) is post-doctoral research and teaching assistant at the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen, Germany.
• Natalya VINCE (No. 12) is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She is also completing her PhD on the itineraries and memories of women veterans of the Algerian War of Independence in the History Department of Queen Mary, University of London, under the supervision of Julian Jackson. Her research interests include oral history, gender studies, and the relationship between history and memory.
• Daniela WALDBURGER (No. 28/ 31/ 32/ 39/ 50) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, a lecturer at the University of Graz (Austria), and has also taught at the Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Mayotte. Her latest book project combines anthropological linguistics, social biographies and history to investigate the nostalgia of former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR Congo). She is developing the "shared-authority approach" to rethink African studies. Other research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and issues of language and power (mis)use, language and violence, including research methods, Swahili language and literature, Swahili varieties and transnational multilingual language use.
• Iain WALKER (No. 50) is Senior Researcher in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he is currently leader of a DFG-funded project on customary political systems in the Comoros, and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. He has worked on various aspects of social practice in the Comoro Islands and developed the theory of mimesis in an analysis of Ngazidja society, published as Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World (2010). He has also carried out long term, multi-sited fieldwork on mobilities and identities among the Hadrami communities of the western Indian Ocean littoral. His other publications include Islands In A Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros (2019).
• Christopher WALSCH (No. 15) is a historian and political scientist specialising in African and development policy. He researches and teaches at Corvinus University in Budapest.
• Bernhard WEIDINGER (No. 2/ 5) studies International Development and Political Science in Vienna and Granada. His principal research interest is a critique of work-centred society.
• Bettina WEISS (No. 11) gained a Ph.D. in African literature from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has edited The End of Unheard Narratives. Contemporary Perspectives on Southern African Literatures, a book dealing with topics such as socio-sexual experiences of black South African men, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS. She has set up her own publishing company – kalliope paperbacks – and publishes novels and short stories as well as books on literary criticism with a focus on Southern African literature.
• Daja WENKE (No. 4) is an African Studies scholar and anthropologist with a European Master in Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA), specialising in conflict studies.
• Nicole WIEDERROTH (No. 22) studied African Studies and Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is currently a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
• Steffen WIPPEL (No. 40) is an associate researcher at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Philipps University Marburg. Most recently, within the research network „Re-Konfigurationen. Geschichte, Erinnerung und Transformationsprozesse im Mittleren Osten und Nordafrika“, he examined transregional connections in South–South relations. His books include Wirtschaft, Politik und Raum: Territoriale und regionale Prozesse in der westlichen Sahara (Berlin/Tübingen, 2012). He co-edited Focus sur Tanger: Là où l’Afrique et l’Europe se rencontrent (Rabat, 2016) and Les relations transsahariennes à l'époque contemporaine: Un espace en constante mutation (Paris/Berlin, 2004).
• Katharina WURZER (No. 32/ 36/ 38/ 40) holds a bachelor’s degree in African Studies. She is an advanced Master student in African Studies and Political Science at the University of Vienna, participating in various teaching and research activities at the departments of African Studies, Political Science - Staatswissenschaft and International Development Studies. Since 2017, she serves as Research Assistant at the Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER). Her regional expertise is on West Africa in general and francophone Africa in particular.
• Saleh YASIN (No. 46) is a graduate student at the department of History University of Dar es Salaam. He is interested in furthering research in areas of urban histories, environmental history and local agency in urban making. Before joining graduate studies Yasin worked as a secondary school teacher where he also wrote secondary school history textbooks that are currently used in schools as supplementary readings.
• Felicia Arudo YIEKE (No. 13) is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at Egerton University in Kenya. Her areas of specialization and interest include Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, especially in the field of Gender and Language.
• Tal ZALMANOVICH (No. 34) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture. She is an historian of media and has published in Postcolonial Studies and in the Journal of British Studies. She currently has work in press with the journals Safundi and Critical Arts. She is a podcast host at the New Books Network.