Felicitas Becker
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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
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Felicitas Maria Becker | Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal". research.flw.ugent.be.
- ^ Weik, Judith (June 4, 2014). "Felicitas Becker". www.african.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ Becker, Felicitas; Geissler, Wenzel, eds. (February 23, 2009). Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. Brill. ISBN 9789047442691 – via brill.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Projects supported by the Foundation | Gerda Henkel Foundation".
- ^ https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2018_cog_results_all_domains.pdf
- ^ "Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021 | Faculty of History University of Cambridge". www.hist.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ Reviews:
- von Sicard, Sigvard (2011-10-01). "Becoming Muslim in mainland Tanzania 1890-2000". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 22 (4): 492–493. doi:10.1080/09596410.2011.606197. ISSN 0959-6410.
- Kaarsholm, Preben (November 2013). "Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000 by Felicitas Becker". Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 83 (4): 691–693. doi:10.1353/afr.2013.0051. ISSN 1750-0184.
- Nolan, Francis (January 2010). "Book Review: Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 34 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1177/239693931003400118. ISSN 0272-6122.
- Kresse, Kai (2010-01-01). "Becker, Felicitas, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000, Oxford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2008, 299 pp., with glossary, illustrations, maps, index, 9780197264270, $100.00". Journal of Religion in Africa. 40 (2): 227–228. doi:10.1163/157006610X498733. ISSN 1570-0666.
- Abrahams, Naasiha (2010-01-01). "Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, Felicitas Becker : book review". Journal for Islamic Studies. 30 (1): 103–105. doi:10.10520/EJC48349.
- ^ Reviews:
- Sollai, Michele (2020-01-01). "Book Review: Felicitas Becker, "The Politics of Poverty. Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania" (Cambridge University Press, 2019)". H-Soz-Kult.
- Pasztor, Szabolcs (2020-10-01). "The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania". African Studies Quarterly. 19 (3–4): 141–144.