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Overview
Overview
Hüseken Thomas 180x180 2.2021 PD Dr. Thomas Hüsken
Hüseken Thomas 180x180 2.2021

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology in Africa


Scientific career

  • 2021-2024: Head of the research project: Cyrenaica Contested: Politics, Identity and Justice in Times of Turmoil (DFG, own position) at the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology (to the project)
  • 2017-2021: Research associate (independent position) at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth. Research project: Political Orders in the Making - comparative study of emerging forms of political organisation from Libya to Northern Mali (DFG)
  • Summer semester 2019 and winter semester 2019/20: Deputy professorship in Freiburg
  • April 2018: Habilitation
  • 2013 - 2017: Senior Assistant at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Lucerne
  • 2012 - 2013: Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2011: Research associate on the DFG project "African Political Cultures"
  • Winter semester 2011/12: Visiting Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna
  • 2007: Research associate on the DFG project "The Formation of Non-State Forms of Governance in Contemporary Africa
  • 2001-2006: Doctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Dr. Georg Elwert †, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin; doctorate 2004 supervised by Georg Klute and Dieter Weiss
  • 1999-2001: Research associate in the DFG project "The core of experts, opportunities and problems of intercultural communication in projects of German governmental development cooperation
  • 1990-1998: Study of social and cultural anthropology and economics at the Free University of Berlin, Magister Artium

Memberships and functions

  • Board member of ABORNE (African Borderlands Research Network)
  • Review editor of Journal of Anthropology
  • Reviewer for Sociologus, Paideuma, Journal of Anthropology, Journal for Religious Studies
  • Member of the German Anthropological Association (GAA)
  • Member of the Swiss Anthropological Association
  • Member of the MENA Network Switzerland
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Goethe Institute

Other professional activities

  • 2000-2006: Advisor for Development Cooperation at the College of the German Foreign Service
  • 2000-2005: Advisor at the German Development Institute (GDI)
  • 1999-2004: Lecturer for Intercultural Management at the Centre for British Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 1997-1998: Director of the Section German as a Foreign Language at the Turkish-German School in Berlin
  • 1993-1994: Project Assistant at the Al-Qasr Rural Development Project of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Marsa Matuh, Egypt

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