Prof. Dr. em Kurt Beck

Scientific career

• since 2006: Social Anthropology research group at the University of Bayreuth
• 2000 - 2006: Professor of Anthropology, LMU Munich
• 1997 - 2000: Deputy professorships (Bayreuth, Frankfurt, Bielefeld)
• 1993 - 1997: Research associate in the research project "Pre-industrial work" as part of CRC 214 "Identity in Africa", University of Bayreuth
• 1987 - 1993: Research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
• 1986 / 1994: Social Anthropological consultant for Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
• 1980 - 1981: Research Associate at the Institute for African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum
• 1974 - 1986: Degree, University of Freiburg, subjects studied: social anthropology, Islamic studies, sociology, and German studies
• M.A. Social Anthropology 1979, doctorate Dr.rer.nat. 1986, habilitation in Social Anthropology 1999

Research areas

Africa and Middle East; Sudan

Social structure of non-industrial societies; Muslim society and culture; creativity, knowledge, and technology

Completed research projects

• Roadside and travel communities. Towards an understanding of the African long-distance road (Kurt Beck, Gabriel Kläger, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour)
• Bedfords Metamorphose

Research interests

• Africars
• Appropriation Studies (mainly in German language)
• Traffic in Africa (in German language)
• Pre-industrial work (mainly in German language)
• Resettlement (partly in German language)
• State and Governance (mainly in German language)