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Prof. Dr. Carola Lentz
Personal Profile
| 10/2008–6/2009 | fellow (non-residential) at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA); Fulbright fellowship |
| since 4/2002 | tenured full professor of social anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (2002–03, 2005–06 head of department) |
| 10–12/2003 | fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., Germany |
| 9/2000–6/2001 | fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 1996–2002 | tenured full professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the Department of Historical Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1996 | 'Habilitation' (Thèse d'Etat) in social anthropology, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin |
| 1992–95 | scholarship and research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) for post-doctoral research on 'Migration, social differentiation and the construction of ethnicity in North-Western Ghana' |
| 1987–92 | associate professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Free University of Berlin |
| 5-6/1991 | fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Research in the African Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston |
| 1987 | PhD in sociology at the University of Hannover |
| 1985 | Master of Science at the Georg August University of Göttingen, Faculty of Agricultural Science |
| 1982–85 | post-graduate studies in tropical agriculture at the Institute for Rural Development, University of Göttingen (minor in social anthropology and rural sociology) |
| 1981–82 | practical training as secondary school teacher in Hamburg, final state examination |
| 1979–80 | continuation of studies of sociology at the University of Göttingen |
| 1979–82 | work as adult educationist in trade unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) |
| 1979 | first state examination for teaching at secondary schools (political science, history and German literature) |
| 1972–79 | studies of sociology, political science, German literature, philosophy and education at the Georg August University of Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin |
Field research
| since 2005 | field research in Ghana on ‘States at Work’ and changes in career strategies and home-ties of Northern Ghanaian elite men and women (total of 5 months) |
| 1997–2005 | field research (total of 16 months) in the borderlands of Southern Burkina Faso and North-Western Ghana on mobility on agricultural frontiers, settlement history, property rights, and the history of the international border |
| 1988–96 | field research (total of 18 months) in Ghana on labour migration and family networks, ethnicity, elite formation and voluntary associations among the Dagara and Sisala; political history of Northern Ghana during the colonial and post-colonial periods; archival research in Ghana, London and Oxford |
| 1983–85 | field research in Ecuador (total of 18 months) on labour migration (rural-urban as well as rural-rural) and the emergence of ethnic identity among Indio smallholders |
| 1980 | field research in Boliva, Mexico und Ecuador (total of 6 months) on adult education and agricultural extension work |
Boards and committees (last five years)
| since 2009 | member of the editorial advisory board of Africa |
| since 2005 | co-editor of the African Social Studies series, Brill Publishers (Leiden) |
| since 2004 | member of the editorial board of Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung |
| since 1996 | member of the editorial advisory board of Paideuma |
| 2003–2008 | member of the editorial board of Afrika spectrum |
| 2002 –2007 | member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Anthropological Study of Knowledge and Ethics, Department of Social Anthropology, St. Andrews University, UK |