Tabea Scharrer

Dr. Tabea Scharrer
Research associate in the DFG-Project: "Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany"
E-Mail: tabea.scharrer@uni-bayreuth.de
Building Zapf Haus 4 Room 4.2.30
Profile
- 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
- 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
- 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
- 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
- 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
- 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Scientific career
Current offices and functions
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)
Scientific career
- 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
- 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
- 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
- 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
- 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
- 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Current offices and functions
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)
- (forced) migration, socio-economic inequality, and religion (esp. Islam)
- Kenya, Tanzania, Germany, and Austria
- particpant observation, biographical research, narrative interviews, multi-sited research, archival research, social network analysis
Research areas
Current research project: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany
Research areas
- (forced) migration, socio-economic inequality, and religion (esp. Islam)
- Kenya, Tanzania, Germany, and Austria
- particpant observation, biographical research, narrative interviews, multi-sited research, archival research, social network analysis
Current research project: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany
Profile
Scientific career
- 2025 - 2027: Senior Researcher and Project Leader - Bayreuth University, Cultural and Social Anthropology Department
- 2024: Senior Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
- 2022 - 2023: Lecturer - Leipzig University, Institute of Anthropology
- 2021 - 2022: Writing Scholarship - Bayreuth University, Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple'
- 2010 - 2020: Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- 2009 - 2010: Lecturer - Free University Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- 2006 - 2009: Doctoral Scholarship - Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
- 2004 - 2006: Research Assistant - Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Current offices and functions
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS)
Research areas
- (forced) migration, socio-economic inequality, and religion (esp. Islam)
- Kenya, Tanzania, Germany, and Austria
- particpant observation, biographical research, narrative interviews, multi-sited research, archival research, social network analysis
Current research project: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany