3 May 2012 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | CRASSH Meeting Room |
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Part of the CRASSH Fellows Work-in-Progress seminar series. All welcome, but please email Michelle Maciejewska if you wish to attend. Sandwich lunch and refreshments provided.
Dr Felicitas Becker (History, Peterhouse): |
About Felicitas Becker
Dr Becker did her undergraduate work at Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin, followed by an MA in African area studies at SOAS and a PhD in African history here in Cambridge. She set out studying the economic and social history of an isolated region of Tanzania, including processes of economic and political marginalisation as well as resistance. Her post-doctoral work focused on the spread of Islam in the same region. It is published by Oxford University Press as Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania. Before returning to Cambridge, she taught at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, SOAS and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
Her current research interests include Islamic radicalism and reform in East Africa and its relation to similar movements elsewhere; women, families and Islam; political rhetoric and performance, especially in relation to the notion of ‘development’; orality and media, the long aftermath of slavery, and alternatives to the widely-used concept of ‘power’ to describe unequal relationships.
Her publications include the monographs Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000. Oxford and London: Oxford University Press and the British Academy, 2008. ISBN-13 9780197264270 and Bara na pwani. Historia ya Kusini Mashariki ya Tanzania, 1880 hadi 1985. Ndanda, Tanzania: Ndanda Mission Press, 2004. ISBN 9976 63 672 5. (A Swahili version of her PhD thesis. The title translates as ‘Mainland and coast: the history of southeast Tanzania, 1880-1985.’)
For administrative enquiries please contact Michelle Maciejewska.