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Belgian historian (born 1971
Felicitas Becker (born 1971 in
Erlangen ) is a Belgian 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 spread 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:
References
^
"Prof. Dr. Felicitas Maria Becker" . research.flw.ugent.be .
^ Weik, Judith (June 4, 2014).
"Felicitas Becker" . african.cam.ac.uk .
^ Becker, Felicitas; Geissler, Wenzel, eds. (February 23, 2009).
Aids and Religious Practice in Africa . Brill.
ISBN
9789047442691 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^
"Projects supported by the Foundation" . Gerda Henkel Foundation.
^
"ERC Consolidator Grants 2018 – List of Principal Investigators – All domains" (PDF) . European Research Council .
^
"Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021" . hist.cam.ac.uk .
^ 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 .
^ Reviews:
^ Reviews:
^ 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 .
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