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Associate Researchers

Abdalla Salma

Discipline:
Political Science
Research keywords:
Governance, Religion-politics relationship, diaspora studies, political transformation, violent extremism
Institution and status:

Senior Researcher – The Raad Peace Research Institute
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Abdalla, Salma (2024) “Terrifying the enemies of Allah: understanding the Islamists’ counterinsurgency warfare strategies in Sudan (1989–2019)”. Small Wars & Insurgencies.
– Abdalla, Salma (2024). “From Private Practice to State-Controlled Sector: The Transformation of Zakat in Sudan (1989-2018)”. Égypte Soudan Mondes Arabes, n°25.

Amigoni Livio

Discipline:

Social Science, Migration and Intercultural Processes
Research keywords:
Migration, Borders, Ethnography, Activism, Sudan,
Institution and status:
Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Genoa
Selected 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.

– Amigoni, Aru, Bonnin, Proglio & Vergnano. (2021) 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.

Glade Rebecca Marie

Discipline:

History
Research Keywords:
History, Nimeiri, political movements, protest, Sudan
Institution and Status:
Visiting Researcher, Makerere University

Selected publications about Sudan:
– Muna Mohamed Saief, Rebecca Glade “Keep Eyes on Sudan: Higher Education in Times of Conflict’’ – (December 2024)

– Elgadal & Glade (2024) Research in Displacement: The Impact of War on Sudan’s Higher Education and Academic Research Community. Rift Valley Institute, 53p.
– Glade (2019). “‘Shama Will Not Dance’: University of Khartoum Politics, 1964–69”. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 89, n°S1, pp. S109–26.

Grabska Katarzyna

Discipline:

Social anthropology/ migration studies
Research keywords:
Gender, youth, displacement, art, South Sudan, creative practice
Institution and status:
Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
Selected publications about Sudan:
–– Grabska & Abdel Aziz (2022). “Kandakas and Meheiras: the emergence of creative citizenship through women’s music in Sudan”. Music and Arts in Action, vol. 8, n°1.
– Grabska, de Regt & De Franco (2019). Adolescent Girls Migration in the Global South. Palgrave, 272 p.

Hussein M. Sulieman

Discipline:

Geography
Research keywords:
Geography, irrigation, conflict
Institution and status:
Professor – University of Gadaref
Selected publications about Sudan :

– Sulieman (2024). “Agricultural land use change and its drivers in the Sudanese Ethiopian borderland: the case of Al-Fashaga region”. Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes,

– Sulieman (2024). Causes and impacts of farmer-herder conflicts through a political economy and food production lens: Case study in Gadarif State, Sudan. CGIAR Fragility, Conflict, and Migration Initiative.

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
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Ille & Sharif (2022). “Peace-building’ as thought and practice in the Nuba Mountains before 2011”. In Kadoda & Hale. Sudanese intellectuals in the global milieu. Capturing cultural capital. Lanham: Lexington Books, 173-190.
– Ille & 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, n°5.

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:
Senior Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS (Food Studies Centre), University of London. 
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Abd Elkreem & Jaspars (2024).  “Sudan’s Catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme”. Disasters, vol.49, n°1.

– Jaspars (2023).  “Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions influence Livelihoods, Food Security and Nutrition“. Food and Nutrition Bulletin vol.44, n°2: S23-S31

– Jaspars (2019). Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics and Profit. Bloomsbury, 264 p.

Mahé Anne Laure

Discipline:

Political science
Research keywords:
Authoritarianism, democratization, international development, qualitative methods
Institution and status:
MCF, Sciences Po Toulouse
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Mahé (2024). “Documenter les licenciements arbitraires en contexte autoritaire : les archives comme pratique contestataire au Soudan (1989-2019)”. Critique internationale, vol.102, n°1, 93-118.
– Desrosier & Mahé (2020). “The Mediation of Autocratic Regimes: How Local Officials Shaped Authoritarian Systems in Rwanda and Sudan”. African Studies Review, vol.167, n°1, 129-156.
– Deshayes. & Mahé (2020). « Ils ne mouraient pas tous, mais tous étaient frappés » : répression et violence structurelle au Soudan ». Pôle Sud, n°53, 83-99.
– Mahé (2020). “Manufacturing Sudanese Authoritarianism at the Local Level: Singularities and Banalities of Domination in North Kordofan”. Politique africaine, n°158, 57-79.

Mahmoud Hind

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)
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Mahmoud (2021). “Young People’s Strategies and Educational Processes: A Case Study from Al-Fath Transitional Zone in Greater Khartoum”. In Franck, Casciarri & El-Hassan. In-betweenness in Greater Khartoum.  
 Mahmoud & Koumurian (2016). “Dismantling Processes in the Sudanese Public Health Services Sector”, Égypte/Monde arabe, n°14, 169-186.

Müller Tanja

Discipline:

Political Sociology
Research keywords:
Citizenship – diaspora – mobility – nation-building – peacekeeping
Institution and status:
Professor, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Müller (2025).“Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: Aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. vol.51, n°1, 179-196.
– Müller (2020). “Protection of Civilians Mandates and “Collateral Damage” of UN Peacekeeping Missions: Histories of Refugees from Darfur”. International Peacekeeping. vol.27, n°5, 760-784.
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Pepa Mariasole

Discipline:

Geography
Research keywords:
Post-development, Decolonial, Geography
Institution and status:
Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Padova

Selected publications about Sudan:

– Pase, Kronenburg García, Pepa, Gianoli, Bertoncin & Braga. (2025). Water and Land in the Sahel: Mapping the Flow. Routledge.

– Pepa (2023). “Endlessly changing irrigation spaces: a multi-sited exhibition to reimagine proximities between Khartoum and Padua”. J-Reading, vol.12, n°2: 103-116.

Perez-Houis Corten

Discipline:

Geography
Research keywords:
Urban spaces, building materials, red brick, Nile banks, construction.
Institution and status: 

PhD, ATER, Université Paris Est-Créteil / UMR 8504 Géographie Cités
Selected publications about Sudan:
– Pérez-Houis & Franck (2024). « De la relégation à l’appropriation : (re)lire la citadinité à Khartoum au prisme de la transformation matérielle, sociale et symbolique de ses périphéries ». Échogéo, n°67.
– Pérez-Houis (2022). « Cadre législatif et production de briques rouges à Khartoum (Soudan) : entre protection de l’environnement et stratégies d’aménagement des espaces urbains centraux ». Sources, n°4, pp.197-240.
– Pérez-Houis (2022). Du moule à la norme : vers une standardisation des matériaux de construction et de la production de la ville à Khartoum (Soudan) ?. Éclosion

Revilla Lucie

Discipline:

Political Science, Sociology, History
Research keywords:

Institution and status:
CNRS Researcher, Institut des mondes africains

Selected publications about Sudan:

– Vezzadini, Seri-Hersch, Revilla, Poussier & Abdul Jallil. (2023). Ordinary Sudan, 1504-2019. De Gruyter, Berlin.

– Revilla (2020). “Les Kayzan au quartier : milieu partisan et trajectoires de distinction dans les quartiers marginalisés du Grand Khartoum”. Politique africaine, vol.158, n°2: 33-55.

Tubiana Jérôme

Discipline:

Social science
Research keywords:
Conflict, Armed groups, migration, Darfur, peripheries
Institution and status:
MSF, adviser
Selected publications about Sudan:

– Tubiana, J. (2024, January 8). Europe is making Sudan’s refugee crisis worse. Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/08/sudan-darfur-refugee-crisis-eu-migration/