Team > Lena Kroeker

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Scientific career

• Mar. 2023 - Jun. 2023: Representation of the professorship Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
• Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2024: Research Fellow Project Manager, DFG 5028/1-1 "(In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling", University of Bayreuth
• Aug. 2020 - Jun. 2021: Representation of the professortship "Flight, Migration and Social Mobility", University of the Bundeswehr, Munich
• Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020: Research associate at the chair for Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
  
• Feb. 2013 - Nov. 2018: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies in the sub-project "Middle classes on the move - future concepts between freedom, consumption, tradition and morality”
• May 2013: Research Prize for excellence in policy relevant research on developing countries, Verein für Sozialpolitik und KFW Development Bank
• Nov. 2011: Coordinator at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), preparation of the symposium “Zukunftsforum 2011: ÜberMorgen – Trendsetter Afrika", University of Bayreuth
• Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2013: Research associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
• Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2010: Doctoral student representative at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
• Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2012: BIGSAS doctoral student
• Apr. 2005 - Sep. 2007: Technische Universität Darmstadt: Studies in the interdisciplinary specialization programme “Technologie und internationale Entwicklung (TUE)”
• Oct. 2001 - Jan. 2007: Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Magister Artium in Historical Ethnology, African Linguistics, and Sociology, M.A. thesis: “The situation of the HIV-infected in the social and cultural environment in Bamako (Mali) from the perspective of those affected” (2007)

Work experience

• Apr. 2017 - Nov. 2018: Research associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group (Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber), University of Bayreuth
• since Feb. 2013: Research associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (BAAAS), University of Bayreuth
• Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2013: Research associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group (Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber), University of Bayreuth
• Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2011: Research associate and doctoral student at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS); University of Bayreuth
• May 2007 - Nov. 2007: Assisent to the Africa group of the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), Frankfurt am Main
• Feb. 2006 - Aug. 2006: Contributor to the “Gender” sector consulting project of Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Eschborn
• Jan. 2006 - Feb. 2006: Consultant in the Project against Female Genital Mutilation, Mali; Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Eschborn

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Research areas

• Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Lesotho, South Africa, Mali), African diaspora
• Middle Classes in the Global South, social differentiation, social security, medical anthropology (especially HIV/AIDS, health services research, fertility), gender and generation, future/time/temporality, education, uncertainty
  
• Migration, Life Course Research
  

Current research project

• (In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling (2021-2024)
  

Miscellaneous

• Since 2019: Editor of the University of Bayreuth African Studies Online (Link)
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Publications

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Lena Kroeker
DFG research "(In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling"research associate

Universität Bayreuth
Building: Zapf Haus
Room: 4.2.31
Nürnberger Straße 38
​D-95447 Bayreuth

E-mail: lena.kroeker@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Chair for Social Anthropology