Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber

• 1983 – 1990
  Studied ethnology, literature, Spanish and history at the Universities of Tübingen and Berlin, Germany, with scholarships from the Evangelisches Studienwerk (German Protestant scholarship organisation)
  
  

• 1990
  Magister Artium degree (MA), Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• 1992 – 1993
  Doctoral fellowship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk
  
  

• 1993 – 1995
  Research associate in the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded research project "Traditional rulers, new elites and the state in a peasant society: on the struggle for power and influence among the Baatombu in northeast Benin" at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• 1995 – 2000
  Lecturer in the Department of Ethnology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• 1997
  PhD in ethnology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• 1998 – 1999
  Research fellowship at the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  

• 2001 – 2002
  Research associate in the DFG-funded research project "Social parenthood in West Africa" at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• 2002 – 2007
  Assistant professor of ethnosociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
  
  

• 2007
  Award for outstanding scholarly achievements from the DFG (funding in the form of a Heisenberg professorship)
  
  

• 2008 – 2009
  Heisenberg professor of social anthropology at the University of Bayreuth
  
  

• Since 2010
  Professor's chair in social anthropology at the University of Bayreuth
  
  

• Alber, E.: Im Gewand von Herrschaft. Modalitäten der Macht bei den Baatombu (1895-1995). Studien zur Kulturkunde, Volume 116. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne 2000.

• Alber, E.: Migración o movilidad en Huayopampa- Nuevos temas y tendencias en la discusión sobre la comunidad campesina en los Andes. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima 1999.

• Alber, E., Beer, B., Schnegg, M., Pauli, J.: Verwandtschaft heute. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2010.

• Alber, E., van der Geest, S., Reynolds Whyte S.: Generations in Africa. Connections and conflicts. Lit Verlag, Berlin, Hamburg, Münster 2008.

• Alber, E., Martin, J.: Familienwandel in Afrika. Afrika spectrum 42/2, 2007.

• Alber, E., Geissler, W., Reynolds Whyte, S.: Grandparents and Grandchildren. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2004.

• Alber, E., Elwert, G., Eckert, J.: Macht, Situation, Legitimität. Sociologus 53/2. Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin 2003.

• Alber, E.: No School without Foster Families in Northern Benin: A Social Historical Approach. In: Haldis Haukanes, Tatjana Thelen (eds.): Parenting after the century of the child. Travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Aldershot: Ashgate Publisher: pp. 57-78, 2010.

• Alber, E.: Meidung als Modus des Umgangs mit Konflikten. In: Julia Eckert (ed.): Anthropologie der Konflikte. Georg Elwerts konflikttheoretische Thesen in der Diskussion. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld: pp. 169-185, 2004.

• Alber, E., Sommer, J.: Quand l´application du droit national est déterminée par la demande locale. Étude d´une résolution de conflit villageois au Bénin. In: Cahiers d´Études Africaines 175, 2004. pp. 659-680.

• Albers, E.: Grandparents as foster parents: Transformations in foster relations between grandparents and grandchildren in Northern Benin. In: Africa 74/1, 2004. S. 28-46.

• Albers, E.: Machttheorien. In: Sociologus 53/2, 2003. S. 143-166.

• Albers, E.: Denying biological parenthood – Child fosterage in northern Benin. In: Ethnos 68/4, 2003. S. 487-506.

• "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family and work situation of members of the University of Bayreuth – CovCare@UBT"

• "Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and Children (DEVI): Learning Cultures in a Rural Villages in West Africa", funded by the British Academy

• "Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood", subproject at the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – "Africa Multiple: reconfiguring African Studies"

• "Learning beyond the classroom: Coping with illiteracy in literate urban environments in Bolivia and Benin", subproject at the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 – "Africa Multiple: reconfiguring African Studies"

• "Social parenthood in West Africa", funded by a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG)

• "Football migration" – a dream of Europe and its effect on Germans' image of foreigners

• Subproject within the Migration and Knowledge research network (ForMig), Federal State of Bavaria, 2009 – 2012

• Intrafamily resource flows and relations between generations in West Africa, research grant, DFG, 2008 – 2010

• Editor of the journal Sociologus

• Vice dean and principal investigator in BIGSAS (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies)

• Deputy chairperson of the developmental sociology and social anthropology section, German Sociological Association (DGS)

• Liaison to students from the scholarship programme of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

• Chairperson of the preselections committee, Evangelisches Studienwerk (Protestant scholarship organisation) in Bayreuth

• 2007 Heisenberg-Professorship awarded by the German Research Council (DFG)

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