Position at ABI:
E-mail:
benedikt.kamski [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
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Areas of research:
Political Economy, Geopolitics, Industrialisation
Regional focus:
Horn of Africa (esp. Ethiopia and Djibouti), Comoros and Seychelles
Professional experience:
Since 2022
Associated Researcher: Centre francais des études éthiopiennes (CFEE), Addis Abeba
Since 2018
Senior Researcher: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
2016-2017
Post-Doc: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
'Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia’s lower Omo Valley: empirical evidence on the performance of commercial cotton farming’ (Fieldwork funding by Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
'Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia’s lower Omo Valley: empirical evidence on the performance of commercial cotton farming’ (Fieldwork funding by Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
2013-2015
Workshop Co-ordinator: African Good Governance Network (AGGN) (with M. Adelmann & J. Altrogge)
2013-2014
Research Associate: Department of Economic Policy & Constitutional Economic Theory, University of Freiburg
2011-2012
Research Assistant: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
Education:
2017
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Freiburg (Germany). (Advisor: Andreas Mehler, Freiburg / External Advisor: David Turton, Oxford)
2013-2016
Recognised (VRO) DPhil Student University of Oxford, African Studies Centre (Trinity/Michaelmas 2015) | Affiliated Ph.D Researcher Addis Ababa University, Department of Political Science & International Relations (2014-2016)
2012-2013
Watershed Management Certificate Program, University of British Columbia (Canada)
2012
Mag. phil. (MSc equiv.) degree in Political Science, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
2006-2012
Study of Political Science, Law and Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), Institute d’études politiques de Lyon / IEP (France), University of New Orleans – International Summer School (Austria, USA), l’Université Saint-Joseph Beirut (Lebanon)
Fellow (FRGS) at the Royal Geographical Society (since 04/2020), Postgraduate Fellow (2015-2020)
Founding member of the Omo Turkana Research Network, OTuRN (since 2015), Michigan State University
Google Scholar: Benedikt Kamski
