Fellows 2023/24
Dr. Halil Ibrahim Arpa (associated fellow)
stay: 01.10.2023 – 30.09.2024
Dr. Halil Ibrahim Arpa works at Cankiri Karatekin University in Türkiye. He is an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in Western Languages and Literatures Department. He is in the Cluster with a scholarship funded by TÜBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye). ...more
Dr. Chembea Suleiman Athuman
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Chembea Suleiman Athuman holds a PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany; a Master of Arts in Religion and a Bachelor of Education (Arts), both from Moi University, Kenya. He teaches Religion at Bomet University College where he also Heads the Department of Arts, Governance and Communication Studies. ...more
Isabelle Carine Bahanag
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
From 2014 to 2016, Carine Bahanag wrote and directed three musicals for children as part of her "Vacances en Cadence" project, artistic workshops open free of charge to children from the workingclass Nkolndongo district (Yaoundé, Cameroon), who don't always have access to art. ...more
Dr. Yacouba Banhoro
stay: 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2024
Yacouba Banhoro holds a PhD in African history from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. ...more
Dr. Elshifa Elamin
stay: 15.11.2023 – 15.10.2024
Elshifa Elamin is an Assistant Professor at the English Language Department of Omdurman Ahlia University in Sudan. She has been the head of the English Department since July 16th, 2022, and has over 12 years of experience teaching Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis and supervising research. Previously, Elshifa worked as a part-time instructor for English Language courses at many Sudanese universities, ...more
Dr. Victor Iwuoha
stay: 13.12.2023 – 12.06.2024
Dr. Victor Chidubem Iwuoha is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has received excellent research fellowship awards globally, such as the British Academy International Visiting Fellowship, at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom; a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; ...more
Dr. Neelima Jeychandran
stay: 10.05.2024 – 31.07.2024
Neelima Jeychandran is an Assistant Professor of African Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar. She is an ethnographer, editor, and scholar who works on oceanic crossovers and material histories of West and East Africa and western India. ...more
Dr. Joseph Kasule
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Joseph Kasule received his interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies from Makerere University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), where he researches and convenes courses in cultural anthropology. He works on aspects of Islam, Secularism, Violence, and Coloniality/Decoloniality.. ...more
Sabelo Mcinziba
stay: 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2024
Sabelo Mcinziba is a researcher preoccupied with the question of the Human throughout history. His intellectual work is inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary in service of a set of questions that come together when thinking about the human. ...more
Dr. Valerie Nur
stay: 01.10.2023 – 30.11.2023
In May 2021 Valerie Nur (née Hänisch) defended her PhD on artisanal skills, mobility and family among Tuareg artisans in Niger at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany. For her PhD thesis she was awarded the Frobenius-Forschungsförderungpreis 2022 and the first prize by the German association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) at the 2023 conference in Munich ...more
Dr. Habibat Oladosu-Uthman
stay: 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2024
Dr Habibat Oladosu-Uthman was born more than five decades ago. She obtained her first and Masters degrees in Islamic studies from University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria between 1999 and 2004 respectively. She obtained her Ph. D from International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2011 with an award as the best graduating Ph. D candidate in Islamic Thought and Civilization. ...more
Dr. Katrin Seidel
stay: 06.11.2023 – 31.03.2024
Katrin Seidel is currently exploring the relationship between legal plurality and (de-)coloniality, with a focus on ‘Decentering international(ised) Peace Mediation in Africa’. She was a senior researcher at the ‘Law & Anthropology’ Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2012-2019; 2021/22) as well as a Fellow at the Excellence Cluster 'Religion & Politics' of Münster University (2023) and at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (2015/16). ...more
Dr. Nyindem Nancy Sirih-Nagang
stay: 01.04.2024 – 31.07.2024
Dr Nyindem Nancy Sirih-Nagang holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Buea, Cameroon. From 2006 to 2008, she worked on describing Cameroon Bantu Languages. In 2010, in the context of her PhD thesis, she documented ...more
Dr. Don Edward Walicek
stay: 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
Don Edward Walicek, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras Campus. He earned a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded his PhD in English from the University of Puerto Rico. ...more
Dr. Moses Yakubu
stay: 01.10.2023 – 21.12.2023
Dr. Moses Yakubu is a distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Principal Investigator of the University of Lagos African Cluster Centre. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in History and Strategic Studies. ...more