Profile
Abstract
Researcher and coordinator in the central project of the SFB 1199 with focus on equal opportunity measures. Working on organisation, conceptual development and project and event management.
Professional career
- since 05/2020
Assistant coordinator and equal opportunity officer of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition". - 01/2020 - 05/2020
Research assistant / researcher at the BMBF-funded Research Institute for Social Cohesion at Leipzig University. - 01/2019 - 12/2019
Research assistant / researcher in the central project of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition". - 08/2018 - 12/2018
Freelance work for the Centre for Area Studies and independent work on autonomous research project on Ethiopian higher education. - 04/2018 - 07/2018
Organisation of the conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD e.V.) for the Centre for Area Studies. - 01/2018 - 03/2018
Field research in Ethiopia. Conducting interviews and collecting material concerning the internationalisation of higher education. - 10/2017 - 12/2017
Research assistant at the Centre for Area Studies at Leipzig University. - 10/2016 - 07/2017
Researcher at the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition", Project "New Regionalisms and Violent Conflicts in Africa: The Politics of the AU and ECOWAS in Mali and Guinea-Bissau." - 02/2009 - 03/2009
Internship at Zanzibar Current Generation Forum. Focal points: Organisation of workshops, project development, local networking.
Education
- 10/2011 - 08/2015
M.A. in African Studies at Leipzig University. M.A. thesis: The US American Influence on the Abyei Conflict. A Case Study in Foreign Policy Implementation. - 10/2007 - 09/2011
B.A. in African Studies at Leipzig University. B.A. thesis: Failing States in Africa. The Concept of Neopartimonialism as an Approach to Explain Fragile Statehood.
2018-2019
Independent research project on the internationalisation of higher education in Ethiopia.
Pub:
Claudia Baumann/Rüdiger Lauberbach (2019): The Rise of the Global South and the Repositioning of German Actors in Ethiopian Higher Education. Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 42 (2), pp. 22-27.