CONTRIBUTOR:

Gerhard Seibert

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associated Researcher

DEPARTMENT:

Centro de Estudos Internacionais

INSTITUTION:

ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

BIOGRAPHY:

Gerhard Seibert graduated in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 1991, and earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Leiden University, Netherlands, in 1999. Between 1999 and 2008 he was researcher at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Lisbon, Portugal. From 2008-14 he was researcher at the Centro de Estudos Africanos at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEA / ISCTE-IUL). From 2014-19 he was associate professor at Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB), Campus dos Malês, São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil. He has conducted research in Mozambique, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and on Brazil – Africa relations. He has published many book chapters and journal articles on topics related to his research in English, Portuguese, and other languages. He is author of the monograph Comrades, Clients and Cousins. Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe (Leiden: Brill, 2006) and co-editor of Brazil-Africa Relations. Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2019). Currently he is collaborator of the postgraduate program PósAfro at the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil, and associated researcher at the Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI), at ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.