Sabine Baumgart
professor for Urban and Regional Planning, School for Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. Current research fields are planning instruments and implementation procedures, governance of urban development in the Global South, Healthy Urban Development and Community Well-being as well the Cooperation of Public Health and Urban Planning Actors.
Andrea Behrends
has done extensive research in Chad on topics like oil extraction, policy and environmental degradation. She also has a long-term research project on displacement, emplacement and aid in the Chad-Sudan borderlands. Affiliated to Halle University she currently holds a guest professorship at the Free University Berlin’s Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Marc Boeckler
is an economic geographer with a training in cultural studies and science and technology studies, a background in Middle Eastern studies and a current regional interest in Africa. His work focuses on geographies of marketization, the performativity of economics, and the infrastructures of economic globalization. He is professor of Economic Geography and head of the Department of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Martin Doevenspeck
is professor of Political Geography at the University of Bayreuth. His research focuses on migration, the spatialilties of violent conflict and the political dimensions climate change in West and Central Africa.
Ulf Engel
professor for “Politics in Africa” at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, is teaching African Studies as well as Global Studies. He is a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University, and a professor extraordinary in the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.
Claudia Gebauer
obtained her doctoral degree from the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) in 2016. She is currently working at the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn.
Dr phil. Modern China Studies (Berlin 1999) is senior research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg. Focusing on qualitative research, he has widely published on socio-economic change in China and Chinese spatial mobility, ranging from internal migration to transnational entrepreneurial migration between China and Africa.
Katharina Heitz Tokpa
is a research fellow at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from Basel University in Switzerland. Since 2014, she has done research in Côte d’Ivoire’s northern borderlands in the DFG-funded SPP 1448 project on “Constraint and Creativity on African State Boundaries”.
Shahadat Hossain
is a research fellow of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology and the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University, and a visiting assistant professor of the School of Planning at the University of Duhok (Iraq). He holds an undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning, an MA in Development Management, and a PhD in Spatial Planning. He is now coordinating a project that supports the University of Mosul to redevelop and modernize its teaching and research targeting the post-war reconstruction and reconciliation in Iraq.
Anna Hüncke
is a doctoral student in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Constance University. She holds a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies (with emphasis on South-East Asia) from Passau and a MA in African Studies from Leiden. In 2016–2017 she has worked with a German development NGO.
Gabriel Klaeger
received his PhD from SOAS, University of London, and works at the Department of Social Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt. He did intensive research on the Accra-Kumasi road in Ghana and is currently working on assisted reproductive technologies and counselling cultures.
Kelly Si Miao Liang
has received double Masters in International Affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University. Her time at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies Institute (GIGA Hamburg) gave a chance to further explore
Andreas Mehler
is director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and Professor of Political Science at Freiburg University. He is co-editor (with Henning Melber) of the academic open access review “Africa Spectrum”. With various co-editors he publishes the yearly “Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara” at Brill Academic Publishers.
Felix Müller
studied African Studies in Leipzig, and Global Studies in London, Halifax, and Vienna. From 2013 to 2016, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University, within the DFG-funded SPP 1448 project “Changing stateness in Africa – Cameroon, Ethiopia and Ghana compared” (Leipzig). Currently, he is working on a PhD thesis on Ghanaian intellectual and political history.
Detlef Müller-Mahn
is professor of development geography at the University of Bonn and speaker of the collaborative research centre “Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation”. His research addresses questions of environmental governance and risk in the context of global change, with a focus on pastoralists and peasants in Eastern Africa. Recent research projects in Ethiopia were about the pastoral Afar, the water-land-energy nexus in the Blue Nile Mountains, and about climate change adaptation as a “travelling idea”.
Wolfgang Scholz
is an urban planner and researcher. In 2006, he received his PhD on informal urbanization in Zanzibar/Tanzania, he served as DAAD long-term lecturer in Tanzania 2007–2009 and in 2012 he was appointed as Associate Professor for Urban Planning at the German University of Technology (GUtech) in Muscat, Oman. Currently, he is the acting head of the Department International Planning Studies, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University.
Sophie Schramm
is an assistant professor in the Department of Geoscienes at Utrecht University. She was a member of the SPP 1448 subproject “Translating urban infrastructure
Jannik Schritt
was a PhD researcher in the DFG-funded SPP 1448 project on “Oil and Social Change in Niger and Chad” at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. He is currently working on a new research project about solar energy in Africa.
Michael Stasik
is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He is a social anthropologist working on the intersection of urban cultures, economies and mobilities in West Africa.
Florian Weisser
has dealt intensively with the international negotiations on climate change and analysed what happens when the climate govermentalities that emerge from such sites are travelling the world. Currently, Florian works for the Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung (Dornum).
Julia Willers
worked in the project dealing with adaptation to climate change in Eastern Africa. She did research on the Ethiopian climate politics, looking at how governmental actors and institutions at the national, regional and local level translate the adaptation to climate change paradigm in Ethiopia. Since 2016, Willers is working in the Equal Opportunity Office at Hochschule Koblenz.
Franzisca Zanker
is a senior research fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg i. Br. where she heads a research cluster on (forced) migration. Previously, she worked at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies Institute (GIGA Hamburg) on post-war institutional reforms. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Liberia, Kenya and Uganda. Her research interests include peace processes, legitimacy, citizenship and forced migration.