Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Englert, Privatdoz.

Mail: birgit.englert@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-43253

Business Card: vCard

Research Profile: u:cris

Office Hours: By appointment, please contact me in person or by email at birgit.englert@univie.ac.at
(the meeting can also be held via Zoom)

I am Associate Professor of African History and Society at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

In the last two decades, I have published extensively on land rights issues (ranging from land reform to women's land rights to land grabbing), on popular and youth culture, and on qualitative research methods. My regional focus has been East Africa (especially Tanzania) and Southern Africa, as well as the Comorian diaspora in France.

Currently, my research interests lie at the intersection of African Studies and Mobility Studies. Specifically, I work on mobilities in the context of solidarity practices, focusing on entangled solidarities between Black and/or African actors and Palestinians, as well as on the role of international recruits travelling to South Africa to help fight apartheid (1960s-90s).

Another research focus is on contemporary German-language travel writing in relation to African contexts. Furthermore, I am in charge of the externally funded project "Rastafari Reasoning on Africa in Historical Perspective" (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, P 35987, 2022-2027), which was conceived and is carried out together with Dominik Frühwirth.

So far, I have supervised 54 master's or diploma theses and co-supervised 2 doctoral theses. Ongoing projects include 3 PhD theses and 8 MA theses in African Studies and related disciplines such as Global Studies and Development Studies.

Administrative functions at the University of Vienna have included deputy director of the study programme (8 years in total), deputy chair of the department (2 years), deputy director of the research platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies" (5 years), and managing editor of the journal "Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies" for most of the period 2001-2021.

See my u:cris profile for publications and activities:
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/persons/birgit-englert

Photo © Birgit Englert

Affiliations

Department of African Studies, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Room 2Q-O1-22

Teaching (iCal)

2021W

143145 UE Readings in African Studies
143179 KU Methodological Foundations - Introduction to Interviewing, Observing, the Use of Archives, and Data Analysis
143233 VO+UE Introduction to African History - Lecture - Linking past and present

2021S

143145 UE Readings in African Studies
143227 KU Images of Africa in contemporary travel writing
143232 SE Bachelor Seminar African History and Societies - Focus on Contemporary History
143254 SE Translocal solidarities from the mid-20th century to the present - from the Anti-Apartheid-Movement to Black Lives Matter and beyond
420001 SE Mobilitäten in transdisziplinärer Perspektive

2020W

143122 SE Master Coaching Seminar
143145 UE Readings in African Studies
143179 KU Methodological Foundations - Introduction to Interviewing, Observing, the Use of Archives, and Data Analysis

2020S

143086 VO Perspectives on Mobilities within/from/to Africa
143094 SE Mobility, Migration, Diaspora and Africa. Focus on the 20th and 21st century
143232 SE Bachelor Seminar African History and Societies
143234 PS Popular Culture in African Societies - from the 1950s to the Present
143371 SE Master Coaching Seminar

2019W

140100 SE Bachelor Seminar African History and Society: - Focus on Mobilitiy, Migration and Diaspora
140105 UE What do we do, when we do African Studies - and how do we do it?: - Introduction to debates and working techniques
140179 KU Methodological Foundations - Introduction to Interviewing, Observing, the Use of Archives, and Data Analysis
140224 PS PS African History and Society in the 20th and 21st Century: - on Youth, Popular Culture, Land Rights, and beyond

2019S

140086 VO About DJs, Shabomen and Maandagraundi: Youth and Popular Culture in Africa

2018W

140179 KU Methodological Foundations
140254 SE Mobilities to/within/from Africa

2018S

140232 SE Bachelor Seminar: Generation, Gender and Politics in Contemporary African History

2017W

140099 SE Bachelor Seminar: Youth and Politics in Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries
140179 KU Methodological Foundations
140254 SE Popular Culture and Social Media in Contemporary Africa

2016W

140099 SE Bachelor Seminar African History and Society - societal developments in postcolonial Africa and its diaspora
140138 SE "Africa" on the move - debates on "Mobility", "Transnationality" and "Diaspora"
140179 KU Methodological Foundations
140224 PS Introductory Seminar: methodological approaches and current debates

2015W

140063 SE Bachelor Seminar: Social Developments in Africa and its Diasporas - Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen im postkolonialen Afrika und in der Diaspora

2015S

140315 SE Bachelor Seminar: Mobilities and Translocal Spaces in Africa

2014S

140187 VO Landgrabbing in historical and global perspective

2012W

140074 SE Africa in Transnational Space
140137 VO RTV - KOA Spaces, Texts and Subjects on the Move: Perspectives on Transnational Space
140279 SK Swahili: Conversation 1 / Kiswahili cha mazungumzo 1
140357 KU Research film project on transnational identities in the African diaspora

2012S

140154 KU Transnationalisation and diasporisation - Focus on Africa

2011W

140337 UE MM1 - Methods of qualitative Reseach

2011S

140210 KU Methods: Data Collection and Data Processing 2
140218 KU Sprachliche und kulturelle Ausdrucksformen im transnationalen Raum - Schwerpunkt afrikanische Diaspora in Europa
140227 KU Youth and Popular Culture
140391 SE T I -Land alienation in postcolonial Africa: from land reforms to land grabbing

2010W

140116 KU Youth and Politics in Africa

2008W

140179 KU Methods: Data Collection and Data Processing

2008S

140332 PS Qualitative methods in African and Development Studies
140574 SE Research seminar: Youth as a political factor in Africa

2007W

140515 SE Youth movements and youth culture in Africa

2007S

140332 AR Qualitative methods in African&Development Studies - Qualitative methods in African and Development Studies
140515 PS Youth in African past and present - Youth in African past and present

2006S

140332 AR Qualitative Methoden in der Entwicklungsforschung - Qualitative Methoden in der Afrika- und Entwicklungsforschung. Praktische Übungen von der Datenaufnahme bis zur Präsentation

2005W

140085 SE Seminar: Hernando de Soto & the mystery of capital - Seminar Kommunikation und Entwicklung: "How to make yourself a development guru" - Hernando de Soto & the mystery of capital
140211 PS PS Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, TEF II - Proseminar Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft: Empirische Sozialforschung

2005S

406772 AR AG Schreiben und Editieren wissensch. Publikation - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Schreiben und Editieren. Das Erarbeiten einer wissenschaftlichen Publikation
720556 PS PS Sprachwiss. II,Geschichte und TEF - Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II, Geschichte und Transdiziplinäre Entwicklungsforschung
720560 AR Qualitative Methoden in den Afrikawissenschaften - Qualitative Methoden in den Afrikawissenschaften. Praktische Übungen von der Datenaufnahme bis zur Präsentation

2004W

724214 SE Großmachtstrategien u. die "unabhäng. Staaten Afr" - Seminar afrikanische Zeitgeschichte: Großmachtstrategien und die "unabhängigen Staaten Afrikas"
766546 PS Proseminar Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, TEF II - Proseminar Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft: Kommunikation, Macht und Entwicklung

2004S

720556 PS PS Sprachwiss. II,Geschichte und TEF - Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II, Geschichte und Transdiziplinäre Entwicklungsforschung
720560 VO Qualitative Methoden in der Afrikaforschung - Qualitative Methoden in der Afrikaforschung - Praktische Übungen: Von der Datenaufnahme bis zur Präsentation

2003W

724214 SE SE afrikan. Zeitgeschichte: Weltwirtschaftskrise - Seminar afrikanische Zeitgeschichte: Primärgüter- und Weltwirtschaftskrise
766546 PS Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II - Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II: Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

2003S

720556 PS PS Sprachwissenschaft II und Geschichte: Texte - Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II und Geschichte: Texte
720560 VO Landpolitik im südlichen und östlichen Afrika - Landpolitik im südlichen und östlichen Afrika

2002W

724214 SE Seminar afrikanische Zeitgeschichte: Landpolitik - Seminar afrikanische Zeitgeschichte: Landpolitik und Landreform
766546 PS Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II - Proseminar Sprachwissenschaft II: Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

2001S

766117 VO Swahili-Texte für Fortgeschrittene B - Swahili-Texte für Fortgeschrittene B

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