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)