Dr. Anaïs Angelo 

Anaïs Angelo is an historian, currently working as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Elise Richter Fellow at the Department of African Studies, Universität Wien. Her research deals with colonial postcolonial political history with a focus on biography writing, the history of African presidential powers and African women’s political history. She is the author of Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 2021) and edited The Politics of Biography in Africa. Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power (Rouledge, 2022). In 2024, she organized the international conference « Women and the history of state building in Africa » (https://www.anaisangelo.com/womafhistory-2024 which brought together international scholars sharing their latest research on African women’s complex modes of political activism. She has published articles in History in Africa, Women’s History Review and the Oxford Encyclopedia of African History. She has also contributed to online newspapers such as The Conversation as well as national newspapers in France and Austria. She is a member of the ÖAW’s Young Academy.