E-mail:
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
Professional experience:
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”
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)
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)
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
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
The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (henceforth the Truman Institute), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
