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    PD Dr. Andreas Dafinger | |||
Associate Professor, Dept for Sociology and Social Anthropology,   | 
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| positions held | ||||
| 2000 - 2008 | Senior Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle  | 
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| 1994 -2000 | Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Program (SFB 268) on "Cultural and Linguistic Development in the Westafrican Savannah", Frankfurt | |||
| fellowships, visiting professorships | ||||
| 2006 -07 | Lecturer in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, London, UK | |||
| 2007 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Zürich, Switzlerand | |||
| 2005 -06 | Leverhulme Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences  University of Manchester, UK  | 
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| 2004 -05 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA  | 
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| 2001/ 03 | Adjunct Lecturer, University of Leipzig | |||
| degrees | ||||
| 2008 | Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.) Privatdozent, Universität Leipzig  | 
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| 2000 | Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Social Anthropology  at the faculty for Philosophy and History (Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften), University of Frankfurt,  with a Dissertation on the "Anthropology of Space. A case study in Burkina Faso"  | 
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| 1994 | Magister Artium (M.A.) in Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and Psychology, University of Frankfurt | |||
| fieldwork | ||||
| since 1994: 25 months in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo | ||||
| professional affiliations | ||||
| ASA, African Studies Association DGV, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde EASA, European Association of Social Anthropologists Frobenius Gesellschaft  | 
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