Team > Dr. Hanna Nieber

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Vita

• 2020 – PhD: “Drinking the Written Qur’an: Healing with Kombe in Zanzibar Town”
  at Utrecht University (UU) and at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)
• Since 2018 – research associate at the department for the study of religion (University of Bayreuth)
• 2012 – Master of Arts (African Studies, Leipzig University)
• 2010 – Bachelor of Arts (Pedagogy and Didactics for Mathematics and English, Oldenburg University)

Memberships

• Working group “Africa” of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW)
• DGSKA
• EASA
  

Recent activities

• Workshop „SKAnning Space from Africa: Seeing and Becoming“
  
• PhD defense and Symposium “Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Materialism, Religion, and Ethnographic Writing”
  

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Fields of Research

• Materiality of script
• “Material Religion” and “New Materialism”
• Practices of religious contact
• Healing: approaches from medical anthropology and anthropology of religion
• Knowledge: onto-epistemological practices
• Astronomy in Madagascar
• Utopias
  

Regional Foci

• Zanzibar
• Madagascar (Africa and Indian Ocean)
  

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Publications

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Dr. Hanna Nieber
Research associate Study of Religion

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4157 | Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-844156
E-Mail: hanna.nieber@uni-bayreuth.de

Office hours: by arrangement

Room: 1.14 (GW II)

Study of Religion with Focus on Africa
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
​Germany