African Studies on Mastodon
By Robert Heinze @[email protected]A starter pack for those researching in, about and around Africa on Mastodon. Mostly social sciences and humanities.


Robert Heinze
@[email protected]Historian, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris. media history (esp. radio) and history & political economy of public transport infrastructure in Africa.
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.


DJM (freelance for hire)
@[email protected]From France - Living near Cotonou, #Benin since 2016. Traveled the world.
FR/EN/(DE)
Looking for #Consultancy / #Coaching
Remote from West #Africa (UTC+1)
#Marketing / #Strategy
Change #Management
#Digital Transformation
3rd instance since 2019
CryptoSkeptic - DMs closed
Follow my 2nd blog, the #AfricanMusic Forum @blogamf


Kim Todzi
@[email protected]Ich bin Historiker und beschäftige mich Globalisierung, Kolonialismus und postkolonialer Erinnerung.


Aaron Y. Zelin
@[email protected]Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Visiting Research Scholar at Brandeis University, Founder of Jihadology.net, and author of the book “Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad” (2020).


Ulrike Krause
@[email protected]Prof. #PoliticalScience & #GenderStudies, University of Münster (Germany)
Research interests: gender, forced migration, conflict, humanitarism, resilience, refugee-led organizations (RLO), gender-based violence, global refugee policies, post-colonial approaches, knowledge production
New Book "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp" (http://lnkd.in/dehDCBy)


Alessa Giampaolo Keener
@[email protected]#Queer educator (no, not a teacher) with a passion for kids who do not thrive in traditional brick and mortar school settings. (Mostly) left my career for #caregiving & volunteer #CommunityMediation. Dabbling in medieval #AfricanHistory to learn all the things they don't teach in school. Lay #histodon #AmWriting #ActuallyAutistic #DYS #Quaker #Baltimore grrl. Still sharing occasional hot takes on #K12 #EdPolicy, #GiftedEd, #gtchat, #EarlyCollege, #SchoolChoice and #homeschooling.


Brenton Peterson
@[email protected]Social scientist; director - Sababi Institute; eternal PhD candidate at UVA. I study Kenya, Somalia, political behavior, development, and survey methods. Nearly obsessive focus on data collection and measurement. Based in Hargeisa.


Anke Fischer-Kattner
@[email protected]Historian of war and violence with a passion for present and future peace...


Jochen Lingelbach
@[email protected]Historian of human mobility in East Africa, East-Central Europe and elsewhere // author of On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn 2020)
#histodon #history #refugees #refugeecamps
postdoc @unibayreuth
formerly fellow at #zif #bielefeld research group #internalizing #borders
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/ongoing/borders/
editor at #h-migration and #WerkstattGeschichte tfr


Deborah Neill
@[email protected]Prof. of modern European history at York University in Toronto. My research interests are in histories of capitalism, medicine, colonialism, and Western Africa ; I also teach global WW1 and WW2. I'm the author of Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty 1899-1930.


Sonja Hartl
@[email protected]Freie Kritikerin und Autorin - (Kriminal-)Literatur, Film, Feminismus, Gewalt
Podcast: @AbweichendesVerhalten


Gideon Tups
@[email protected]PhD in Geography / Researching infrastructures, agrarian change & synthetic fertilizer / Member of the @CRC228 / Born@351 ppm


Antoine Huerta
@[email protected]

Jonah Wedekind
@[email protected]Political Ecologist by training. Undisciplined by nature. Ethiopian Studies by heritage. Researching failed frontier investments + The nature of the state & state-nature in #Ethiopia. Raised on Bole Road in Addis Ababa of the 90s. Settled and cycling in Neukölln, #Berlin.


Damien Droney
@[email protected]Cultural and medical anthropologist


Karin Kaup Lapõnin
@[email protected]• Africa analyst • digital era enthusiast • author of “Etioopia vahepala” • proudly Estonian 🇪🇪 • Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦


Emelien Devos
@[email protected]PhD in Environmental Anthropology, into all things #IndigenousRights,#EndFortressConservation, #FoodSovereignty, #MedAnthro, #FoodAnthro


Maria Ketzmerick
@[email protected]Postdoc African Sociology @unibt
// Researching peace and internationalized conflicts, global relations, historical IR and IPS, post/decolonial security //


Aaron R. King
@[email protected]Researching community conservation and governance of wild resources in Southern Africa | PhD candidate in Geography at University of Florida
Areas of interest: CBNRM, wildlife, ecological economics, participatory governance, social-ecological systems, biodiversity conservation
#geography #africa #cbnrm #socialcapital #politicalgeography


Darja Wolfmeier
@[email protected]Decolonization & Humanitarianism @unibayreuth | MA Global & African History @unibayreuth & @SOAS


Laura Martin
@[email protected]Assistant Prof in #AfricanPolitics and #InternationalDevelopment at #UniversityofNottingham. Research on #Justice #gender #humor in #SierraLeone. Wino. Bookworm. Iowan.




Mahriana Rofheart
@[email protected]I've moved to @h-net.social
assistant prof of #literature and #composition, working on English, French & #Wolof literatures of Africa & beyond, #SciFi, #comics
Fan of #CriticalRole, plays #dnd and lots of #AnimalCrossing (#ACNH & #ACPC)
Header: a map that looks like the European Mediterranean coast but with fantasy names and markings because it’s a map that my spouse made for our dnd game