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Felicitas Becker is Professor of African History at the University of Ghent.[1] She worked at Cambridge University from 2010 till 2016, where she was also Fellow of Peterhouse College[2]. She works on AIDS[3], slavery[4] and the spread of Islam[5] in East Africa, especially Tanzania.

Biography

Felicitas Becker is Professor of African History at the University of Ghent. Her work has been supported by a number of high profile grants, for example from the Gerda Henkel Foundation[6] and the European Research Council[7]. She won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History [8] at Cambridge University.

Her books include:

  • Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Oxford University Press. 11 September 2008. ISBN 9780197264270.[9]
  • Becker, Felicitas (2019). The Politics of Poverty. doi:10.1017/9781108690485. ISBN 9781108690485. S2CID 197774943.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Prof. Dr. Felicitas Maria Becker | Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal". research.flw.ugent.be.
  2. ^ Weik, Judith (June 4, 2014). "Felicitas Becker". www.african.cam.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Becker, Felicitas; Geissler, Wenzel, eds. (February 23, 2009). Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. Brill. ISBN 9789047442691 – via brill.com.
  4. ^ Becker, Felicitas (May 4, 2021). ""Looking for Life": Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns". Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. 10 (1–2): 87–109. doi:10.1080/21619441.2020.1804691. S2CID 213599456 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  5. ^ Becker, Felicitas; Becker, Felicitas (September 11, 2008). Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-726427-0.
  6. ^ "Projects supported by the Foundation | Gerda Henkel Foundation".
  7. ^ https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2018_cog_results_all_domains.pdf
  8. ^ "Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021 | Faculty of History University of Cambridge". www.hist.cam.ac.uk.
  9. ^ Reviews:
  10. ^ Reviews: