• Director of Studies European Master "Global Studies" at the Global and European Studies Institute, U Leipzig
• Director of Studies Master "Global Studies with an emphasis on peace and security" at the Institute of Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa U
• Spokesperson DFG Graduate Research Training Group  (Graduiertenkolleg) 1261“Critical Junctures of Globalization”
• Co-Spokesperson DFG Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa. Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder”
• Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science, U Stellenbosch
• Fellow Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)

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Offices

Institut für Afrikanistik, Beethovenstraße 15, R 2.209, phone: +49 (341) 97 37030,
consultation hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00

Global and European Studies Institute, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, R 3.10, phone: +49 (341) 97 30246, consultation hours: selected Mondyas 13-14 (please arrange for appointments by e-mail).

All seminars are supported by the university’s e-learning portal, Moodle.

Academic CV

• since 2012 Director of Studies Master "Global Studies with an emphasis on peace and security" at the IPSS, Addis Ababa U

• since 2010 co-spokesperson of the DFG Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa. Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder” (with R. Rottenburg, U Halle)

• since 2009 Director of Studies of the Erasmus Mundus Master "Global Studies" at the Global and European Studies Institute, U Leipzig (2005-2009 at the Centre for Advanced Studies, ZHS)

• since 2008 dual membership in the faculties of Social Sciences and Philosophie a well as History, Arts and Oriental Studies (GKO), U Leipzig

• 2006-2012 Director of Studies of the MA "African Studies"

• since 2006 spokesperson of DFG Graduate Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) 1261 “Critical Junctures of Globalization”, U Leipzig

• 2005 Professor, U Leipzig

• 1999-2005 Assistant professor „Politics in Africa“ at the Institut für Afrikanistik, GKO, U Leipzig (1998-99 acting)

• 1994-1997 research associate at the History department, U Hannover & Institute for African Studies (Hamburg)

• 1989-1992 research associate, Institute of Political Science, U Hamburg

Academic training

• 1999 Habilitation (“The Africa policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1999”; venia legendi: political science), U Hamburg

• 1994 Dr. phil. (“The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe”), U Hamburg

• 1987 Diploma political science (“The developmental programme discussion in the SPD 1982-1987”), U Hamburg

Research stays in Africa

African Studies plus

• since 2011 member of the Advisory Council der Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS, Leiden), the network of European African Studies centres

• 2004-2011 member of AEGIS Board

• since 2004 member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg)

• since 2004 member of the Mitglied North-South Advisory Council of the Heinrich-Böll- Stiftung (HBS, Berlin)

• 1999-2001 member of the board of the German African Studies Association (VAD, Hamburg)

Fellowships ect.

• since 2011 visiting professor at the IPSS, Addis Ababa U

• EMGS visiting professor U of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2009, 2010, 2011

• EMGS visiting professor Dalhousie U (Halifax), Canada, 2006

• appointed DAAD Willy-Brandt guest professor U of Stellenbosch, 2005

• guest lecturer U of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004, 2005, 2007

• since 2004 fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS),  longer research stays in 2005 and 2011

• research fellow Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London), UK, 2004

• research fellow U of Stellenbosch, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

• research fellow U of Zimbabwe (Harare), Zimbabwe, 1991, 1993

Current research projects

• Mapping New Regionalisms in Africa and Latin America (with H. Zinecker), 2013-2014 (research associates: Frank Mattheis und Thomas Plötze)

• Rethinking Area Studies in the 21st Century [with S. Marung (CAS) & M. Middell (GESI)], 2012-2015

• Adaptation and Creativity in Africa: Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder (= DFG Priority Programme 1448, with R. Rottenburg, U Halle), 2011-2016

• Changing Stateness in Africa: Cameroon, Ghana and Ethiopia (= DFG SPP 1448 project, with M. Middell, U Leipzig, and D. Simo, U Yaoundé I), 2011-2014 (research associates: J. Kläge & N.N.)

• Bruchzonen der Globalisierung (= DFG Research Training Group 1261), 2006-2015

• The African Union’s emerging policy on Unconstitutional Changes of Government [with J. Gomes Porto (U Bradford), A. Baumert (U Leipzig), A. Witt (U Bremen)], 2010-2014

• Africa’s new social spaces in the global order: EU and HRW policies on Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland (DFG, research associate: L. Schlegel, U Leipzig), 2008- 2013

• Deutsche Afrikapolitik (ongoing)

Reviewer for ...

• African Affairs (Oxford)

• Ashgate (Farnham)

• Africa Spectrum (Hamburg)

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Bonn)

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn)

• Deutsche Friedensstiftung (Osnabrück)

• German-Israel Foundation (Jerusalem)

• Internationales Olympisches Komittee (Lausanne)

• Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem)

• Journal of ModernAfrican Studies (Cambridge)

• Manchester University Press (Manchester)

• National Research Foundation (Pretoria)

• Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Hannover)

• Review of International Studies (St. Andrews)

• Routledge (Abindgon, Oxford)

• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Bonn)

• Thyssen-Stiftung (Köln)

• VolkswagenStiftung (Hannover)

Last 5 years edited volumes

• [2014, forthcoming]. The African Peace and Security Architecture: The missing links. Farnham: Ashgate (with J. Gomes Porto and P. Nugent).

• [2013, forthcoming]. “1989” as a global moment. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag Leipzig (with M. Middell and F. Hadler).

• 2013. Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture. Interfaces, Practices and Challenges. Farnham: Ashgate (with J. Gomes Porto).

• 2012. Erinnerungskulturen. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (with M. Middell and S. Troebst).

• 2012. New Mediation Practices in African Conflicts. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

• 2010. Theoretiker der Globalisierung. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (with M. Middell).

• 2010. World Orders Revisited. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (with M. Middell).

• 2010. Africa’s New Peace and Security Architecture. Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions. Farnham: Ashgate (with J. Gomes Porto).

• 2009. Respacing Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (with P. Nugent).

Last 5 years selected articles

• 2013. The changing role of the AU Commission in Africa's inter-regional relations: The Case of APSA and AGA. In J. Harbeson and D. Rothchild (eds.) Africa in World Politics. 5th edition. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 186-206.

• 2012. The G8 and Germany’s Africa Policy – A Case of Hegemonic Mainstreaming, Global Governance 18, 471-476.

• 2012. Authority, sovereignty and Africa’s new regimes of territorialisation. In S. Cornelissen, F. Cheru and T. Shaw (eds.) Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century: Still Challenging Theory? Farnham: Ashgate (with G.R. Olsen).

• 2010. Theorien und Theoretiker der Globalisierung: Schneisen im Dickicht der Interpretationen. In U. Engel und M. Middell (Hrsg.) Theoretiker der Globalisierung. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 7-40 (with M. Middell).

• 2009. Die Globalisierungs- und Transnationalisierungsforschung in Deutschland. In H. Zinecker und R. Ouaissa (Hrsg.) Entgrenzte Welten vs. begrenzte Identitäten? Festsschrift für Hartmut Elsenhans. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 282-317 (with M. Middell).

• 2009. Die Neuordnung Afrikas - Souveränität im Wandel, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 34-35, 17. August, 7-12.

• 2009. Africa's new peace and security architecture, African Security 2 (2-3) 82-96 (with J. Gomes Porto).