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Elise Richter Fellow, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Wien

I am Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Elise Richter Fellow at the Department of African Studies, Universität Wien. Her work deals with African postcolonial political history with a focus on biography writing, the history of African presidential powers and African women’s political history. My latest publications include "Changing the Narrative and Gendering Kenyan Political History: Jael Mbogo's Fight for Parliamentary Elections in the 1960s," Women's History Review (2023): 1-19 ; and Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 2020).

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Wien Universität, Institut für Afrikawissenschaften
  • 2017–present
    Rédactrice , Diakonie Flüchtlingsdienst, Recherchebüro
  • 2017–2017
    Researcher, Zentrum für Soziale Innovation

Education

  • 2016 
    European University Institute, Ph.D.
  • 2010 
    Sciences Po Paris, Research Master