Felicitas Becker

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:

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

^ "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.
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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.
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Reviews:
- Sollai, Michele (2020-01-01). "Book Review: Felicitas Becker, "The Politics of Poverty. Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania" (Cambridge University Press, 2019)". H-Soz-Kult.
- Pasztor, Szabolcs (2020-10-01). "The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania". African Studies Quarterly. 19 (3–4): 141–144.
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Reviews:
- "Heaton on Becker and Geissler, 'Aids and Religious Practice in Africa' | H-Africa | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- Bongmba, Elias (2011). "Aids and Religious Practice in Africa - Edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler". Religious Studies Review. 37 (1): 73–74. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01495_1.x. ISSN 0319-485X.
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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.