Doctoral projects

Current projects

• Ayeh, Anna Madeleine: "Parents in Crisis – Work, Care, and Inequality at the University of Bayreuth during the Covid 19-Pandemic"
  
• Ertlmaier, Sophia: “Education - Work - Having Children: Family Planning of Middle Class Women in Lagos, Nigeria“
  
• Krauss, Rebekka: "Urban illiteracy in Bolivia"
  
• Schild, Hannah: "The Work of Bringing up Children: Parental Practices in Times of Uncertainty in East Africa"
  

Completed projects

• Abou Momouni, Issifou: "Gouvernance de la sécurité au Bénin: Les chasseurs néo-traditionnels dans le système sécuritaire" (2018)
• Ballo Guede, Coffi Fidèle: "'Ni pauvre ni riche': Identité de classe moyenne ou construction sociale d'une appartenance intermédiaire au Bénin?" (2023)
• Bochow, Astrid: "Intimität und Sexualität vor der Ehe. Gespräche über Ungesagtes in Kumasi und Endwa, Ghana" (2008)
• Häberlein, Tabea: "Ressourcenflüsse und Generationenbeziehungen in Nordtogo" (2011)
• Houngbedji, Gbeognin Mickael: "'Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre': Die handwerkliche Ausbildung und der Umgang mit lokalen sozialen Normen und Kinderrechten in Benin" (2022)
• Irambeshya, Albert: "Social protection for elderly people in the context of rapidly aging population in Rwanda" (2023)
• Kroeker, Lena: "In between life and death - Decision-making of HIV+mothers in Lesotho" (2010)
  • 2013 Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research of the KfW Development Bank
• Maurus, Sabrina: "Battles over State Making on a Frontier - Dilemmas of Schooling, Young People and Agro-Pastoralism in Hamar, Southwestern Ethiopia" (2020)
  • 2021 Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research of the KfW Development Bank
  • 2021 Prize of the City of Bayreuth
  • 2021 VAD Young Scholars' Award 2020/21
  • 2021 Dissertation prize of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
• Mildner, Carsten: "DEAF-DEAF-DIFFERENT. ambiguities of being deaf in Benin" (2021)
  • 2023 Dissertation prize of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
  • 2022 Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research of the KfW Development Bank
• Oldenburg, Silke: "Growing up in Goma - Juvenile Identities between War and Peace" (2012)
• Sarre, Johanna: "'Some call it slum, we call it home' The Nubi of Kibera, Kenya" (2021)
  • 2023 Dissertation prize of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
  • 2021 Prize of the City of Bayreuth
• Stoppok, Manfred: "Household energy consumption in Mumias, Western Kenya – global and local perspectives" (2020)
• Ungruhe, Christian: "Lasten tragen, Moderne befördern. Wanderarbeit, Jugend, Erwachsenwerden und ihre geschlechtsspezifischen Differenzierungen in Ghana" (2015)
• Voigt, Maike: "The Rise and Fall of Kenyan Entrepreneurs - Social Mobility in Kisumu" (2020)