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Anna Madeleine Ayeh

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Scientific career:

since Dec. 2015: Research associate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth
Jan. 2014 - Nov. 2015: research assistant in the Social Anthropology research group at the University of Bayreuth and the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth
2012-2015: Master's degree course in African Culture & Society (focus on social
anthropology, development sociology, and politics), University of Bayreuth; Master's thesis: Growing up with the Word of God. Youth teaching and learning in North Beninese Koranic schools (awarded the VAD Young Talent Prize 2016)
2008-2011: Bachelor's degree course in Islamic studies and social anthropology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; Bachelor's thesis: "Anybody who says he doesn't want šarīʿa is not a Muslim" - Islamic law and statehood in Nigeria and Sudan

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Research interests

I am interested in researching differentiated and unequal ways of knowing, working, and caring in Europe and West Africa. Taking the entanglement of categories of difference like gender, race, sexuality, class, religion, and age into account, I am intrigued to better understand how people’s intersectional positioning informs how they give and receive care in ways that transgress boundaries of “the private” and “the public”.

I am intrigued by the various interplays between (hegemonial) knowledges, social policies, and lived care practices.

As a first-generation academic, and a parenting early-career researcher, I further want to add to transformative debates that make academia a more inclusive space.

Regional focus

Ghana, Benin, Germany