Tabea Häberlein

Scientific career

Professional experience

UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

• Apr. 2025 - Sep. 2025: Subistitute for the Chair of Social Anthropology
• Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025: Substitute for the Professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology (with a focus on Africa)
• Dec. 2023 - Sep. 2024: Post-Habilitation Fellow
• Sep. 2022 - Nov. 2023: Research Associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
• Mar. 2019 - Aug. 2022: Research associate in the "Africa Multiple" Cluster of Excellence supporting Vice Dean Research in the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
• Aug. 2017 - Dec. 2018: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Apr. 2017 - Jul. 2017: Research Assosciate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
• Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2017: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Nov. 2012 – Feb. 2014: Research Assistant at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
• Jul. 2009 – Nov. 2012: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
• May 2005 – Jun. 2007: Part-time research assistant to the Junior Professorship of Ethnosociology, Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, and in the CRC/RG 560 sub-project B8 "Family Change in Africa”

Academic career

05/2019 - 06/2024: UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH

Habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in the field of Cultural and Social Anthropology, title of habilitation thesis: Erwachsenes Sein. Konzeptionen, ökonomische und relationale Realisierungen einer spezifischen Lebensphase (in Togo und Benin). Teaching qualification for the subject of social and cultural anthropology established on June 5, 2024.

10/2006 – 10/2012: UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH

• Feb. 2008 – Oct. 2012: Doctoral student at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
• Title of dissertation (2012): Generational ties. Order, practice and history of generational relations among the Lama (Kabiye) in northern Togo. Grade: magna cum laude (1,0)
• Jul. 2007 – Jun. 2009: Scholarship holder in the Graduate School of the University of Bavaria e.V.

10/2000 – 04/2005 FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN

• Studied social anthropology and geography (Master's degree with two main subjects); graduated in April 2005 with the title Magistra Artium, grade 1,0 (distinction)
• Title of master's thesis (2005): Institutional change in post-socialist Mongolia using the example of the Zuunchangai Sum region. Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 19.04.2005, grade: 1,0 (distinction)

10/1998 – 09/2000 LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITY MUNICH

• Studies of social anthropology, geography, psychology (“Magister”)

Research areas

• West Africa (Togo, Benin) and Central Asia (Mongolia)
• Economics over the course of life, adulthood, old age and ageing; generational relations, age class systems, course of life; intra-societal conflicts, and change of social institutions after political transformation. Rural societies, nomadism

Completed research project

• Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa