PhD Research
An overview of all PhD research supervised and co-supervised by members of the Department ‘Integration and Conflict’
. 2011. Okrika: Igbo trade networks and secondhand clothing. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Negotiating identity: politics of identification among the Borana, Gabra and Garri around the Oromo-Somali boundary in Southern Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2011. Islamischer 'Fundamentalismus' neu betrachtet: performative Konstruktionen skripturaler Authentizität; mauritische Muslime zwischen nationalen und religiösen Identifikationen. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Ethnic groups and conflict: the case of the Anywaa-Nuer relations in the Gambela Region, Western Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. Deciding peace: knowledge about war and peace among the Arbore of southern Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. Local response to the Ethiopian ethnic based federalism: conflict and conflict management among the Borana and their neighbors. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. The ädamo of the Kara: rhetoric in social relations on the lower Omo. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2011. Political orientations and repertoires of identification: state and identity formation in northern Somalia. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. Pétrole et changement social: rente pétrolière, dé-agriculturation et monétisation des interactions sociales dans le canton Béro au sud du Tchad. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. "The native son and blood ties": kinship and poetics of patronage in rural Kyrgyzstan. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
2015. Sacralising the contested: the Chagossian diaspora and their first pilgrimage to the homeland. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2016. Transhumant pastoralists, translocal migrants: space, place and identity in a group of Fulbe Wodaabe in Niger. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. "City of the Future": built space and social change in Astana, Kazakhstan. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Negotiating language and identity: the case of Belgium. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2015. Beyond autochthony discourses: Sherbro identity and the (re-)construction of social and national cohesion in Sierra Leone. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. Dynamic synergy of descent, history and tradition in the process of Sidama ethnic identification in southern Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Getting along in the Grassfields: interethnic relations and identity politics in Northwest Cameroon. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2011. "Wir sind keine Araber!": amazighische Identitätskonstruktion in Marokko; im Spannunsfeld von internationalen Einflüssen und lokalen Ansprüchen. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig.
. 2011. Migration and conflict: the integration of Burkinabe migrants displaced from Côte d'Ivoire. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2010. Domesticating youth: the youth bulge in post-civil war Tajikistan. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2013. Integrating conflict – assessing a thirty years war: conflict and conflict management in the Lower Casamance, Senegal. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2012. Economic and social change in post-Soviet rural Uzbekistan. PhD Thesis, Universität Zürich, Zürich.
. 2011. Why did they stay behind?: identities, memories, and social networks of Kazakhstani Germans in Taldykorgan/Kazakhstan. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2013. Sprache und Identität der Mongolen Chinas heute. PhD Thesis, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Abteilung für Mongolistik, Univ. Bonn, Bonn.
. 2012. From Shanghai to Iug-2: integration and identification among and beyond the male youth of a Bishkek neighbourhood. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2011. Integration trough marginality: local politics and oral tradition in Guinea. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. 2019. "The last bullet": South Sudan’s emerging state. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Identification, discrimination and communication: Khorezmian migrants in Tashkent. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
. Irish/ness is all around us: the Irish language and Irish identity in Catholic West Belfast. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.