About Felicitas Becker
Born 1971. Felicitas Becker is a Belgian historian.
Felicitas Becker (born 1971 in Erlangen) is a German historian, currently a Professor of African History at the University of Ghent. She worked from 2010 till 2016 at the University of Cambridge, where she was also Fellow of Peterhouse. She works on AIDS, slavery and the state of Islam in East Africa, especially Tanzania.
Becker's work has been supported by grants from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the European Research Council. She won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History at Cambridge University.
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Who is Felicitas Becker?
Belgian historian
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Felicitas Becker was born in 1971 in Erlangen.
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Felicitas Becker is a historian.
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Felicitas Becker is Belgian.
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