Dr. Franz Kogelmann

Managing Director of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth

Since 2014

Project coordinator, collaborative project with the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Sousse, Tunisia „The Inception of a Professional Master in African Studies“, DAAD Chance by Exchange, transformative partnerships with universities in the transformation countries Egypt and Tunisia

2013 – 2020

Academic Coordinator of the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth

2012 – 2013

Scholarship awarded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, special programme Islam, Moderner Nationalstaat und transnationale Bewegungen, research project Zakat und Islamisches Stiftungswesen im gegenwärtigen Nordnigeria

2011 – 2012

Research associate, Religious Studies I, University of Bayreuth, DFG research programme "Tradition and Innovation. The Economy of Sacred Space in Durban, South Africa"

2010 – 2011

Scholarship awarded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, special programme Islam, Moderner Nationalstaat und transnationale Bewegungen, research project Zakat und Islamisches Stiftungswesen im gegenwärtigen Nordnigeria

2006 – 2009

Director of Volkswagen Foundation project "Sharia Debates and Their Perception by Christians and Muslims in Selected African Countries"

Since 2007

Principal Investigator Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth

2004 – 2005

Contributor in SFB/FG 560 "Local action in Africa in the context of global influences"

2003 – 2004

Director of Volkswagen Foundation project "The Sharia Debates and the Shaping of Christian and Muslim Identities in Northern Nigeria since 1999"

2000 – 2004

Project coordinator at the German Orient Institute in Hamburg

1998 – 2000

Lecturer University of Bayreuth