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:

  • 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)[11]
  • Religion, media, and marginality in modern Africa. Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet. Athens. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8214-4624-9. OCLC 1021174074.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Prof. Dr. Felicitas Maria Becker". research.flw.ugent.be.
  2. ^ Weik, Judith (June 4, 2014). "Felicitas Becker". african.cam.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Becker, Felicitas; Geissler, Wenzel, eds. (February 23, 2009). Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. Brill. ISBN 9789047442691.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Projects supported by the Foundation". Gerda Henkel Foundation.
  7. ^ "ERC Consolidator Grants 2018 – List of Principal Investigators – All domains" (PDF). European Research Council.
  8. ^ "Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021". hist.cam.ac.uk.
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