Elísio Macamo

Elísio Macamo is Tenure Track Assistant Professor of African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland and a Research Fellow at the Centro de Estudos Internacionais – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL), Portugal. He taught development sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and was a founding member of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. He was born and grew up in Mozambique. He studied in Maputo (Mozambique), Salford, and London (UK) and Bayreuth (Germany). He holds an MA in Translation and Interpreting (Salford), an MA in Sociology (University of North London), as well as a PhD and a Habilitation in Sociology (University of Bayreuth). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, an AGORA-Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin and a visiting lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. He regularly offers methodological workshops to Portuguese-speaking African doctoral students on behalf of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa).