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Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair for Social Anthropology

Scientific career

3.2023-6.2023: Research grant at the MIASA in Ghana
2016-2017: Research fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld

University, head of a research group on “Kinship and Politics”
2011-2012: Research fellow at the "Work and Human Life-Cycle" research group at
Humboldt University Berlin
since 2010: Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth
2008-2009: Heisenberg Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth
2007: German Research Foundation (DFG) award for outstanding scientific achievement (funding via a Heisenberg Professorship)
2002-2007: Junior Professor of Ethno-Sociology at the University of Bayreuth
2001-2002: Research associate in the DFG-funded research project “Social Parenthood in West Africa” at Freie Universität Berlin
1998-1999: Research fellow at the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt/Main
1998: Dissertation honoured with a Frobenius Society research prize
1997: Doctorate in social anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
1995-2000: Research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Freie Universität Berlin
1993-1995: Researcher in the DFG-funded research project “Traditional Rulers, New Elites and the State in a Peasants Society: On the Struggle for Power and Influence among the Baatombu in North-Eastern Benin” at Freie Universität Berlin
1992-1993: Doctoral scholarship awarded by Evangelisches Studienwerk
1990: “Magister” examination, Freie Universität Berlin
1983-1990: Studied social anthropology, literature, Spanish, and history at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin, sponsored by Evangelisches Studienwerk

Current offices and functions

Member of the board of trustees (Hochschulrat) of the University of Bayreuth (since 2023)
Member of the Sponsorship Committee of the KfW Young Talent Award (since November 2022)
Member of the Advisoy Board of the publications series “Vigilanzkulturen” Publisher DeGruyter (since 2021)
Member of the board of trustees of Evangelisches Studienwerk (since 2017)
Liaison lecturer of Evangelisches Studienwerk in Bayreuth (since 2010)
Founding member and principal investigator of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies / BIGSAS (since 2007)
Scientific advisory board of the journal africa spectrum (since 2005)
Liaison lecturer for the Study Agency of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the University of Bayreuth (since 2004)
Member of the central committee, Vereinigung für Afrikastudien in Deutschland (VAD) (since 2002)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Lateinamerika Analysen (since 2002)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Peripherie (since 2001)