Associate researchers and PhD candidates

ABDALLA Salma

Discipline: Political Science Research keywords: Governance, Religion-politics relationship, diaspora studies, political transformation, violent extremism Institution and status: Norwegian University of Life Science, Research Fellow Main publications about Sudan: – Abdalla, Salma (2022). Displaced Girls in Times of War: Vulnerability and Mitigation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Darfur, Sudan. In Rafeef Reda Sidawi et al. (Eds.), Arab Girls in the midst of Wars and Conflicts. Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanese women researchers. – Abdalla, Salma (2021). Governing in-Betweenness: Understanding the village organization institutional set-up in rural Khartoum. In Alice Franck et al. (Eds.), In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities and Identities from Separation to Revolution (pp. 53-69). Oxford, England: Berghahn. – Abdalla, Salma (2019). Fighting the Enemies of God: the Rise of and the Response to Violent Extremism in Sudan, Journal for Deradicalization; Vol Fall 2019.(20) pp75-108.

AMIGONI Livio

Discipline: Social Science, Migration and Intercultural Processes Research keywords: Migration, Borders, Ethnography, Activism, Sudan, Institution and status: PhD Student, University of Genoa Main publications about Sudan: – Amigoni, Molinero, Vergnano. (2021). Smugglers and Smuggled Migrants. Amid Sudanese Passeurs in the Border Regime of Ventimiglia. in Amigoni, Aru, Bonnin, Proglio & Vergnano. Debordering Europe. Migration and Controls across the Ventimiglia Region, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

EL OBEID Amani Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Discipline: Political Science/ Islamic Thought Research keywords: Sufi Orders, Methodology of studying Islam, Islamic revivalism, Middle Class,  Muslim Brothers, Institution and status: Assistant Professor , Ex-Ahfad University for Women (AUW). Main publications about Sudan: – Sudan Political Chronicle 2003 Booklet, December 2004, Etude et Documents no. 16 and 17, CEDEJ. – Sudan Political Chronicle 2004 Booklet, December 2005, Etude et Documents no. 20 and 21, CEDEJ. – Sudan Political Chronicle 2005, Etudes et Documents. Etudes et Documents Booklet, December 2006, Etude et Documents no.24 and 25, CEDEJ.

ELTAYIB Noha Hassan Hamza

Discipline: Sociology Research keywords: medical , climate change, refugees, migration ,demography ,environment… Institution and status: Professor at the Department of Sociology and social Anthology, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum

ELSHARIFF Bashir Ahmed Makkeen

Discipline: political science and International Relations Research keywords: Jihadi, Islamic radical movements, Middle East, Religious and international relations Institution and status: PhD at the University of Khartoum, department of political science Main publications about Sudan: – Patrimonial state in Sudan, Sudan conference for Rio summit 2014, Khartoum. – Islamic knowledge in Sudan, (co) Ashraf Osman (book).

GLADE Rebecca Marie

Discipline: History Research Keywords: History, Nimeiri, political movements, protest, Sudan Institution and Status: PhD candidate, Columbia University Main publications about Sudan: – With Alden Young, “Stretching Time: COVID and Sudan’s Current Transitions,” in Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, ed. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade (Chicago: HAU Books, 2021), 139–52. – “‘Shama Will Not Dance’: University of Khartoum Politics, 1964–69.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 89, no. S1 (January 2019): S109–26. DOI 10.1017/S0001972018000931 – “Social Activism and Transnational Networks: Nafeer and Sudanese Flood Relief.” Sudan Studies Association Bulletin 33, no. 1 (May 2015). Institutional page

GRABSKA Katarzyna

Discipline: Social anthropology/ migration studies Research keywords: Gender, youth, displacement, art, South Sudan, creative practice Institution and status: Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway / Senior Researcher Main publications about Sudan: Book: – Grabska, K. (2014) – Gender, identity home: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan, James Currey: Oxford. articles: – (2022), with Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz “Kandakas and Meheiras: the emergence of creative citizenship through women’s music in Sudan”, Music and Arts in Action, vol 8 (1) Book chapters: – (2022) “Girls on the Move: Changing Dynamics of Migration in the Horn of Africa” Katarzyna Grabska and Marina de Regt, In Jean-Nicolas Bach and Jan Záhořík eds. The Horn of Africa as an Innovative Political Space: State of Play and Lessons from a Globalised Region. Routledge. – (2021) “Negotiating citizenship and belonging in displacement. Nuer in Khartoum” in A. Franck, B. Casciarri, Idris El-Hassan (eds) In-between spaces, times and identities. Multiple reconfigurations in Greater Khartoum after 2011; Berghanh Books. – (2021) with Azza Aziz and Stella Gaitano, “Negotiations of Multiple Identities and the Polemics of Living Inbetweeness: In conversation with Stella Gaitano” in A. Franck, B. Casciarri, Idris El-Hassan (eds) Inbetweeness in Greater Khartoum: spaces, times and identities. From Separation to Revolution; Berghanh Books.

HÄNSCH Valerie

Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology Research keywords: Forced migration, dams, art/aesthetics, agriculture, Islam Institution and status: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Germany. Postdoctoral researcher Main publications about Sudan: – Hänsch, Valerie (2021): “The Anthropologist’s Video Camera as Stage: Forced Displacement and Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan”. Special Issue: Witnessing – Truths, Technologies, and Transformations, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 39:1, p. 37–54, DOI:10.3167/cja.2021.390104. – Hänsch, Valerie (2019): „On Patience: Perseverance and Imposed Waiting during Dam-induced Displacement in Northern Sudan“, Critical African Studies 12:1, p. 1–14, DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2019.1697317. – Hänsch, Valerie (2019): “Sudanese Industrial Sound: Sonic Labour in a Truck Workshop” Special Issue: Labour, Roadsides 2, p. 44–50.

HIND MAHMOUD Yousif Hussein

Discipline: PhD candidate Research keywords: Livelihood strategies, adolescents. IDPs, urbanization  Institution and status: Ahfad University, sustainable rural development program, School of Rural Extension, Education and Development (REED) Main publications about Sudan: – “Young People’s Strategies and Educational Processes: A Case Study from Al-Fath Transitional Zone in Greater Khartoum”, in Soudan 2019, année zéro (transl. Sudan 2019, Year Zero), Soleb Editions, April 2021.   – Hind Mahmoud Youssef Hussein and Alice Koumurian, “Dismantling Processes in the Sudanese Public Health Services Sector”, Égypte/Monde arabe, 14 | 2016, 169-186.

ILLE Enrico

Discipline: Social Anthropology Research keywords: Political ecology; environmental history; gold mining; forestry; violent conflicts Institution and status: Academic Staff, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University Main publications about Sudan: – Ille, Enrico, Gamal H. Hamid and Salah Osman, eds. 2020. Recent urbanisation trends in Khartoum State. Khartoum: University of Khartoum in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. – Ille, Enrico and Mariam Sharif. 2022. ‘Peace-building’ as thought and practice in the Nuba Mountains before 2011. In Sudanese intellectuals in the global milieu. Capturing cultural capital, edited by Gada Kadoda and Sondra Hale. Lanham: Lexington Books, 173-190. – Ille, Enrico and Mohamed Salah. Forthcoming (2022). Walking on Fire: Perambulatory Fieldwork and Shared Interpretation of Date Palm Fires North of the Third Cataract of the Nile (Northern State, Sudan). Sources 5. Institutional page

JASPARS Susanne

Discipline: Politics, food security, forced migration. Research keywords: Politics/political economy (governance), food security, livelihoods, humanitarian policy, forced migration (Sudan).  Institution and status: Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies (Food Studies Centre), University of London.  Main publications about Sudan: – Jaspars, S (2021). Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan. Security Dialogue 52(3): 195–212.  Published online June 2020. – Jaspars, S., Buchanan-Smith and Abdul-Jalil (2020).  Darfuri journeys to Europe: causes, risks and humanitarian abandonment.  International Migration 59 (3). DOI: 10.1111/imig.12861 – Jaspars, S. (2018).  The state, inequality, and the political economy of long-term food aid in Sudan.  African Affairs, 117 (469): 592-612.   Institutional page

MAHE Anne-Laure

Discipline: Political science Research keywords: Authoritarianism, democratization, international development, qualitative methods Institution and status: Fellow in qualitative methodology, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science Main publications about Sudan : – Deshayes, C. & Mahé, A. (2020). « Ils ne mouraient pas tous, mais tous étaient frappés » : répression et violence structurelle au Soudan. Pôle Sud, 53, 83-99. – Mahé, A. (2020). Manufacturing Sudanese Authoritarianism at the Local Level: Singularities and Banalities of Domination in North Kordofan. Politique africaine, 158, 57-79. – Mahé, A. L. (2018). A tradition co-opted: Participatory development and authoritarian rule in Sudan. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 51(2), 233-252.

MÜLLER Tanja

Discipline: Political Sociology Research keywords: Citizenship – diaspora – mobility – nation-building – peacekeeping Institution and status: Full Professor, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester CEDEJ research theme: Cities, citizenship, migration and mobility (my work also touches upon Politics, governance and public policy) Main publications about Sudan: – 2022. Müller, T.R., ‘Covid-19 and urban migrants in the Horn of Africa: Lived citizenship and everyday humanitarianism’, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 2, 11-26. – 2020. Müller, T.R., ‘Protection of Civilians Mandates and “Collateral Damage” of UN Peacekeeping Missions: Histories of Refugees from Darfur’, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 27, no. 5, 760-784. – 2017. Müller, T.R. with Z. Bashar, ‘‘‘UNAMID is just like clouds in the summer, they never rain”: Local perceptions of conflict and the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions’. International Peacekeeping, Vol. 24, No. 5, 756-779. Personal page / Institutional page

OSMAN Abdallah Ibrahim Mohamed

Discipline: Economics, Quantitative Analysis. Research keywords: Macroeconomics policies and Development (Sudan) Institution and status: (Lecturer) University of Khartoum- Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, Department of Economics.

OSMAN Amira

Discipline: Social Sciences Research keywords: Social movement, gender, forced migration, international relations, qualitative research methods Institution and status: Post-doc Researcher Main publications about Sudan: – The role of the Sudanese Diaspora in the UK in the 19th December Revolution: Reflections, challenges and the way forward – Beyond the pan-Africanist agenda: Sudanese women’s movement, achievements and challenges – Sudanese women in civil society and their roles in post conflict reconstruction

PEPA Mariasole

Discipline: Geographer Research keywords: Post-development; Development theory; Irrigation; Sahel; China-Africa Institution and status: University of Padua, Department of History, Geography and of the Ancient World (DISSGeA), Postdoc researcher Main publications about Sudan: Mariasole Pepa is part of a research group on the Sahel : AtlaSahel

PEREZ-HOUIS Corten

Discipline: Geography Research keywords: Urban spaces, building materials, red brick, Nile banks, construction. Institution and status: University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne / UMR 8504 Geographie Cites. PhD candidate. Main publications about Sudan : – Corten Pérez-Houis. Cadre législatif et production de briques rouges à Khartoum (Soudan) : entre protection de l’environnement et stratégies d’aménagement des espaces urbains centraux. Sources. Material & Fieldwork in African Studies, IFRA Nairobi, 2022, Knowing Nature | Savoirs environnementaux, 4, pp.197-240. ⟨halshs-03676365⟩ – Corten Pérez-Houis. Du moule à la norme : vers une standardisation des matériaux de construction et de la production de la ville à Khartoum (Soudan) ? 2022. ⟨hal-03845497⟩ Institutional site

POSTMA Metje

Discipline: Cultural Anthropology / Visual Ethnography Research keywords: Observational Cinema, Sudan, Rashaida, Representation, Revolution Institution and status: Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, FSW, Leiden University – Lecturer Visual Ethnography Main production about Sudan: -Aruz Al Dura (40 min, 1993, Co-production with Somaya Al Bashir Al Tayeb et al), Voices in the Desert, the Rashaida and Fuzum (70 min, 2005), Aida, Weaving her Way (120 min, 2022).

QUINT Nicolas

Discipline: Linguistics Research keywords: Fieldlinguistics – Kordofanian – Koalib – Heiban – grammar Institution and status: CNRS – LLACAN UMR 8135 – Senior Researcher Main publications about Sudan: – Quint Nicolas & Allassonnière-Tang Marc (2022) Inferring case paradigms with computational classifiers. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT). – Quint Nicolas (2020) «Kordofanian», in : The Oxford Handbook of African Languages (dir. Rainer Vossen & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal), Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 239-268. – Quint Nicolas (2006) Phonologie de la langue koalibe (dialecte réré), Paris : L’Harmattan.

REUMERT Anna

Discipline: Anthropology Research keywords: Labor migration, gender/masculinity, racial capitalism. Institution and status: PhD Candidatte, Columbia University Main publications about Sudan: Sudanese Migrants’ Labor in Times of Economic Crisis and Revolution Good Guys, Mad City: Etiquettes of Migration Among Sudanese Men in Beirut

SERI-HERSCH Iris

Discipline: History Research keywords: Mahdiyya, Colonialism, Education, History Teaching, Sudan Studies Research theme: History of contemporary Sudan Institution and status: Assistant Professor, Aix-Marseille University, France Main publications about Sudan: – Vezzadini, Elena, Seri-Hersch, Iris, Revilla, Lucie, Poussier Anaël, Abd al-Jalil, Mahasin, eds. Forthcoming. Sudan, 1504-2019: From Social History to Politics from Below. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2 vols. – Seri-Hersch, Iris. 2020. “Arabization and Islamization in the Making of the Sudanese ‘Postcolonial’ State (1946-1964): Cultural Representations, Political Strategies and School Practices”, Cahiers d’Études africaines, vol. 240, p. 779-804. – Seri-Hersch, Iris. 2018. Enseigner l’histoire à l’heure de l’ébranlement colonial. Soudan, Égypte, empire britannique (1943-1960). Paris: Karthala-IISMM, 382 p. Institutional page

SHAHENDA Suliman

Discipline: Political economy Research keywords: Sudan, Labour, Gramsci, Prisons, Political Economy Institution and status: Trade unionist and labour researcher Main publications about Sudan: – 2022. Minimal Hegemony in Sudan: Exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front. Review of African Political Economy. 49(172), pp.264-286. – 2021. Prison Memories: Sudanese Communists and the Aftermath of 1971 in Kober. Jadaliyya. – 2016. How to find books in authoritarian states. The Guardian.

SHARKEY Heather J.

Discipline: History Research Keywords: colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, education, food studies, migration Institution and status: Professor and Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Research Theme: History of Contemporary Sudan Institutional page

TANZIL Abdallah Adam

Discipline: Public Health & Environmental Studies Research keywords: COVID 19, Vaccination, Hesitancy, Abushouk camp, North Darfur Institution and status: University of Khartoum

THIOLLET Hélène

Discipline: Political Science, International Relations Research keywords: Migration, Exile, Diaspora, Political Transformations, Diplomacy Institution and status: Tenured Researcher at CNRS CERI Sciences Po Main publications about Sudan: – “Migration, Asylum and International Interventions in the Horn of Africa”, with Thibaut Jaulin in The Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa, 2022,  Jean Nicolas Bach (ed), Routledge. – « Exodes et politiques d’asile. Le Cas Erythréen. » [Exodus and Asylum Politics. The Eritrean Case], Migrations, refugiés, exil, 2017, Patrick Boucheron (ed.), Odile Jacob, p. 261-288. – Migration as Diplomacy: Labour Migrants, Refugees and Arab regional politics in the oil rich countries, International Labor and Working Class History, (79), p. 103-121. 2011.  Institutional page

TUBIANA Jérôme

Discipline: Social science Research keywords: Conflict, Armed groups, migration, Darfur, peripheries Institution and status : MSF, adviser Main publications about Sudan : – Darfur after Bashir: Implications for Sudan’s Transition and for the Region, USIP, April. – ‘The Sudanese ‘Transitition’ Seen From Its Peripheries, 2018-2020’ in Jean-Nicolas Bach et al. (eds), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa, March. – La transition soudanaise vue de ses périphéries. Observatoire de l’Afrique de l’Est. October.

VEZZADINI Elena

Discipline: History Research keywords: Colonial, gender, labour, nationalism, social history Institution and status: Permanent researcher, French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) Main publications about Sudan: – Vezzadini Elena, 2020. « ’Qu’est-ce qu’il y a de pire que cette injustice et cette oppression, Oh homme ?’ Mouvement féminin, presse et stratégies d’émancipation, Soudan 1950-1956 ». Genre & Histoire, no. 25. – Vezzadini E., 2015. Lost Nationalism : Revolution, Memory, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Sudan, Woodbridge, Suffolk, James Currey. – Heather Sharkey, Elena Vezzadini et Iris Séri-Hersch eds. 2015. « Rethinking Sudan Studies after the Independence of South Sudan » Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 49, n. 1, 2015. Institutional page

WESSELS Josepha

Discipline: Visual Anthropology/Human geography Research Keywords: Sudan, Sustainable development, Graffiti, Environmentalism, Participatory research Institution and status: School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Associate Professor Main publications about Sudan: – Naji, A. & Wessels, J.I. (2023) “Street Art and Graffiti of the Sudanese Revolution of 2019 as medium for social change” in Tunali, T. & Wessels, J.I. (eds.) Art Against Authoritarianism: Aesthetic Activism in Post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa, Bloomsbury UK (under review). – Wessels, J.I. (2022) “The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change” in Strategic Communication Management for Development and Social Change: Governance, Sustainability and Participatory Perspectives in Africa by Tsietsi Mmutle, Tshepang Molale, Olebogeng Selebi, Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola (eds.), Routledge, UK (in press). – Wessels, J.I. (2022) “Graffiti and Mural Arts for Visions of Sustainable Futures in Sudan”, Storytelling and collaborative future making – symposium at Malmö University, 23-25 May, 2022. – Wessels, J.I. (2021) “Graffiti for Social Change and Sustainable Development in Sudan”, Nordmedia Conference, Division 5: Media, Globalization and Social Change, 18-20 August 2021, On-line edition. – Wessels, J.I. (2021) K3 Public Research Seminar (online) on 12