Felicitas Becker
German historian (born 1971)
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Felicitas Becker (born 1971 in Erlangen) is a German 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 state 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:
- Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Oxford University Press. 11 September 2008. ISBN 9780197264270.[9]
- Becker, Felicitas (2019). The Politics of Poverty. doi:10.1017/9781108690485. ISBN 9781108690485. S2CID 197774943.[10]
- AIDS and religious practice in Africa. Felicitas Becker, Wenzel Geissler. Leiden. 2009. ISBN 978-90-474-4269-1. OCLC 647892585.
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