Felicitas Becker

Felicitas Becker (born 1971 in Erlangen) is a German historian, currently a Professor of African History at the University of Ghent. ^[1] She worked from 2010 till 2016 at the University of Cambridge, where she was also Fellow of Peterhouse. ^[2] She works on AIDS, ^[3] slavery ^[4] and the state of Islam in East Africa, ^[5] especially Tanzania.

Becker's work has been supported by grants from the Gerda Henkel Foundation ^[6] and the European Research Council. ^[7] She won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History ^[8] at Cambridge University.

Her books include:

• Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Oxford University Press. 11 September 2008. ISBN   9780197264270. ^[9]
• Becker, Felicitas (2019). The Politics of Poverty. doi:10.1017/9781108690485. ISBN   9781108690485. S2CID   197774943. ^[10]
• AIDS and religious practice in Africa. Felicitas Becker, Wenzel Geissler. Leiden. 2009. ISBN   978-90-474-4269-1. OCLC   647892585. ^[11]
• Religion, media, and marginality in modern Africa. Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet. Athens. 2017. ISBN   978-0-8214-4624-9. OCLC   1021174074. ^[12]

References

1. "Prof. Dr. Felicitas Maria Becker". research.flw.ugent.be.
2. Weik, Judith (June 4, 2014). "Felicitas Becker". african.cam.ac.uk.
3. Becker, Felicitas; Geissler, Wenzel, eds. (February 23, 2009). Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. Brill. ISBN   9789047442691.
4. Becker, Felicitas (May 4, 2021). "'Looking for Life': Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns". Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. 10 (1–2): 87–109. doi: 10.1080/21619441.2020.1804691 . hdl: 1854/LU-8647387 . S2CID   213599456.
5. Becker, Felicitas (September 11, 2008). Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-726427-0.
6. "Projects supported by the Foundation". Gerda Henkel Foundation.
7. "ERC Consolidator Grants 2018 – List of Principal Investigators – All domains" (PDF). European Research Council.
8. "Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021". hist.cam.ac.uk.
9. Reviews:
   • von Sicard, Sigvard (2011-10-01). "Becoming Muslim in mainland Tanzania 1890-2000" . Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 22 (4): 492–493. doi:10.1080/09596410.2011.606197. ISSN   0959-6410. S2CID   216149882.
   • Kaarsholm, Preben (November 2013). "Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000 by Felicitas Becker" . Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 83 (4): 691–693. doi:10.1353/afr.2013.0051. ISSN   1750-0184. S2CID   143538409.
   • Nolan, Francis (January 2010). "Book Review: Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000" . International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 34 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1177/239693931003400118. ISSN   0272-6122. S2CID   148888397.
   • Kresse, Kai (2010-01-01). "Becker, Felicitas, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000, Oxford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2008, 299 pp., with glossary, illustrations, maps, index, 9780197264270, $100.00" . Journal of Religion in Africa. 40 (2): 227–228. doi:10.1163/157006610X498733. ISSN   1570-0666.
   • Abrahams, Naasiha (2010-01-01). "Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, Felicitas Becker : book review". Journal for Islamic Studies. 30 (1): 103–105. hdl:10520/EJC48349.
10. Reviews:
    • Sollai, Michele (2020-01-01). "Book Review: Felicitas Becker, "The Politics of Poverty. Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania" (Cambridge University Press, 2019)". H-Soz-Kult.
    • Pasztor, Szabolcs (2020-10-01). "The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania". African Studies Quarterly. 19 (3–4): 141–144.
11. Reviews:
    • "Heaton on Becker and Geissler, 'Aids and Religious Practice in Africa' | H-Africa | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
    • Bongmba, Elias (2011). "Aids and Religious Practice in Africa - Edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler". Religious Studies Review. 37 (1): 73–74. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01495_1.x. ISSN   0319-485X.
12. Reviews:
    • Howard, Steve (2021-09-02). "Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa" . Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 55 (3): 679–680. doi:10.1080/00083968.2021.1981595. ISSN   0008-3968. S2CID   243271176.
    • Hutchinson, Dawn (2020-07-29). "Review: Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa , edited by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet" . Nova Religio. 24 (1): 95–97. doi:10.1525/nr.2020.24.1.95. ISSN   1092-6690. S2CID   225415125.
    • "Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita and Marie Rodet (eds), Religion, Media and Marginality in Modern Africa" . European Journal of Communication. 33 (5): 581–582. October 2018. doi:10.1177/0267323118799184g. ISSN   0267-3231. S2CID   219950206.
    • Pontzen, Benedikt (May 2019). "Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa". African Studies Quarterly. 18 (3). Gainesville: 6–7. ProQuest   2253096470 . Retrieved 2022-09-11.