Online Science Talk - Anaïs Angelo, Elise Richter Fellow, Historikerin und Politikwissenschaftlerin

Anaïs Angelo, ÖAW, Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, Elise Richter Fellow, Institute for Cultural Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, holds a degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, specialized in African Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and completed her Ph.D. in History at the European University Institute (Florence). Currently, she is based at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 2022, she was awarded the Elise Richter Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund’s Excellency Program for top early-career female researchers. Her three-year project "A history of African female parliamentary pioneers" examines the pioneering efforts of the first women in Africa to campaign for parliamentary seats in the 1960s and 1970s, a time when politics was overwhelmingly male-dominated.

More research topics are such as the state formation, the makings of presidential powers in Africa, the power of biographiy writing, the history of detention in colonial Africa, and African feminist philosophy.

Anaïs Angelo is Co-Editor in Chief of the Revue de l'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique since 2024, and since 2022, an elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an institution that supports the development of outstanding early-career researchers in Austria.

Registration from September 30, to November 2, 2025

Anaïs Angelo

Date:    Wednesday, November 05, 2025, 12.00 pm (75 min planned)

Zoom-Meeting, the Meeting-Link will be provided about the 3rd of November 2025