Forst, Sebastian

Contact: forst_sebastian@yahoo.com

Research topic:

 "Ecce Homo, Ecce Waliyo: Kombo Sillah - A Hero on a West African Stage"

Abstract

Subjects: Afrikawissenschaften, Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Research areas:

• Gesellschafts- und Religionsgeschichte Afrikas
• Islam in Westafrika
• Vorkoloniale afrikanische Geschichte
• Interkulturelle Begegnungs- und Interaktionsgeschichte

CV

Gärber, Barbara

Contact: bgaerber@gmail.com

Research topic:

"Men Own Cattle, Women Own Gardens, Or?"

Gendered Land and Livestock Tenure in the Context of Livelihood Change and Social Transformations among the Jie Pastoralists of Karamoja, Uganda.

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies

Research areas:

• Gender relations
• Land and resource rights and social change in agrarian and pastoralist societies of East Africa 

CV and publications

Mtwana, Monika

Contact: monika.mtwana@gmx.net

Research topic: 

Christian beliefs in the worldview of loval healers in Malawi

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies, History and Societies

Research region: Southeast Africa

Research areas: 

• Traditional beliefs and practices in Southeast Africa
• Oral History/ Oral Literature
• Christian missionary

CV and publications

Murengerantwari, Richard

Contact: ntwaririchard@yahoo.fr

Research topic: 

Ethnische Grenzverschiebung und Demokratie in Burundi (2000-2020)

Abstract

Subjects: Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Research areas: 

• Ethnizität und Politik in Afrika südlich der Sahara
• Koloniale afrikanische Geschichte (Afrika im Zeitalter des Kolonialismus)
• Postkoloniale afrikanische Geschichte
• Methodik: Historische Diskursanalyse - Oral History

CV and publications

Betreuer: Mag. Dr. Arno Sonderegger, Privatdozent

Ripoll Schwendinger, Carolina

Contact: cripollschwendinger@gmail.com

Research topic: 

Colonial Situations and Policies on the Move. French and Muslim Law in the Quatre Communes of Senegal. 

Abstract

Subjects: Afrikawissenschaften, Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Research areas: 

• African Colonial History
• French Colonial Policy
• Law in Colonial Senegal

CV

Betreuer: Mag. Dr. Arno Sonderegger, Privatdozent

Spörker, Dominik

Contact: domi.spoerker@gmail.com

Research topic: 

Die ostafrikanischen Sammlungen der k.u.k. Kriegsmarine für das k.u.k. Naturhistorische Hofmuseum

Abstract

Subjects: Afrikawissenschaften, Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Research Areas: 

• Politische, soziale und kulturelle Geschichte Ost- und Zentralafrikas
• Globalgeschichte
• Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• Postkoloniale Provenienzforschung

CV

Supervisor: Mag. Dr. Arno Sonderegger, Privatdozent

Publication: 
Hiller, Swenja/ Spörker, Dominik. 2023. Reisen und Sammeln. Die Sammlungen der k.u.k. Kriegsmarine im Weltmuseum Wien und im Naturkundlichen Museum Wien. In: Seidl, Ernst/ Steinheimer, Frank/ Weber, Cornelia (Hg.): Ein kritischer Blick zurück. Provenienzforschung in Sammlungen und Museen. (Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung VII) Berlin: Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen, 29-37. Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/28200

Sylla, Alpha Yaya

Contact: syllaa72@univie.ac.at

Research topic: 

The Writing Sytems of Indigenous African Languages: The Case of N'Ko

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies, Linguistics

Research areas: 

• Indigenous African writing systems
• N'Ko script
• Mandinka languages
• Cultural and ideological movement

CV

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo

Teshome, Moges

Mr Moges Teshome is from Ethiopia and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna.

Contact: mogeszewdu2013@gmail.com

Research Topic: 

Transformation of Ethnic Conflict through Constitutional Design:
The Cases of Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria 

In his prior academic pursuits at the University of Dundee and the Vienna School of International Studies, he specialised in international human rights and criminal justice as well as diplomacy and peace and conflict studies. Before moving to Vienna, he served as a law lecturer at Haramaya University College of Law for four years. His current PhD project focuses on managing ethnic conflicts through institutional interventions in deeply divided African societies.

Besides academia, he is active in the media through his popular podcast, Buffet of Ideas.

Research subjects: Comparative Constitutional Law and Social Theory

Research areas: 

• peace and conflict studies
• human rights
• transitional justice
• diplomacy

Some of his publications can be found here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TBBbOukAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo, Prof. Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatic Academy)

Teshome, Moges

Mr Moges Teshome is from Ethiopia and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna.

In his prior academic pursuits at the University of Dundee and the Vienna School of International Studies, he specialised in international human rights and criminal justice as well as diplomacy and peace and conflict studies. Before moving to Vienna, he served as a law lecturer at Haramaya University College of Law for four years.
His current PhD project focuses on managing ethnic conflicts through institutional interventions in deeply divided African societies.

Besides academia, he is active in the media through his popular podcast, Buffet of Ideas.

His areas of research span peace and conflict studies, human rights, transitional justice, comparative constitutional law and social theory. Some of his publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TBBbOukAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo, Prof. Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatische Akademie)