Amber Gemmeke

2011 – date  Researcher in the DFG funded research project "West African Marabouts in the
Netherlands. Constructions of Religious Practices in Skeptical Life Worlds." (Eigene Stelle), Bayreuth University, Germany

2008 – 2011  Postdoc at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth University, Germany

2008  Lecturer at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands

2002 – 2008 Junior researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands

2000 – 2002 DEA Anthropology at University Paris I & IV, Paris, France

1995 – 2000 BA & MA Anthropology at Leiden University, the Netherlands

Research Interests
West Africa; Senegal, religious anthropology (especially Islam and secularisation in Africa and in Europe), migration/circulation (between Africa & Europe), gender, urban studies, media studies.

See also:
http://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/Gemmeke_Amber/index.html

Fellow member
University of Bayreuth
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