Team > Anna Madeleine Ayeh

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

Knowledge, anthropology of Islam, youth, education, gender, postcolonial and feminist
theory, race and racism, ethnographic representation

Regional focus

West Afrika

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Publications

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Anna Madeleine Ayeh
research associate

University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II
Room: 0.02
Universitätsstraße 30
​D-95447 Bayreuth

E-mail: anna-madeleine.ayeh@uni-bayreuth.de
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