Gez, Dr. Yonatan N.

Email: 
yonatan.gez [at] graduateinstitute.ch
Areas of Research: 
Religion and international development; religion and society in East Africa; self-accomplishment in East Africa; theorizing religious mobility; the 'afterlives' of development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; the internationalization of private education
Regional Focus: 
East Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Education: 
Professional Experience / Applied Research: 
2019-2022
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz Project title: “Local Phenomenologies and Legacies in the Afterlife of Development Interventions: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations”
2019-2022
Deputy PI Project SALMEA (Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in East Africa) IHEID and Aix-Marseille Université; funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (henceforth SNSF) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
2016-2019
Research Associate Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Fribourg Part of an SNSF Ambizione project titled “Transnationalisation of Swiss Private Education” (https://www.phfr.ch/forschung/projekt-edutrans)
2015-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017-2018
Head of Africa Unit The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (henceforth the Truman Institute), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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