Gifty Nyame Tabiri, MPP

gifty.nyame_tabiri@uni-erfurt.de

PhD student / DFG research group "Voluntariness" (History Department)

Contact

C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / room C19.01.04

Office hours

nach Vereinbarung

Visiting address

Campus
History Department
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
History Department
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Gifty Nyame Tabiri, MPP

Curriculum Vitae

since April 2024
Research associate in the DFG research group "Voluntariness", sub-project "Voluntariness and Decolonisation" at the Chair of Global History (Department of History), University of Erfurt

2021 – 2024
Pedagogical assistant in the project "Migrant:innen als Fachkraft der Jugendarbeit" and in the project "Kolonialismus, Neokolonialismus und Dekolonialität"; European Youth Education and Meeting Centre Weimar.

2019 – 2021
Master of Public Policy, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt
Specialisation: International Relations and Non-Profit Management

2009 – 2013
Bachelor in Psychology with Sociology, University of Ghana

Current Project

Voluntariness, Decolonization, and Gender. The Women’s Movement and Citizenship in (Post)Colonial Ghana

The project focusses on the political engagement of women in (post-) colonial Ghana. It examines five campaigns between 1948 and 1966, which were primarily launched and supported by women activists. With the demand for self-government, these campaigns initially explicitly inscribed themselves in contemporary decolonisation movements. After achieving political independence in 1957, they also stood for the various attempts to shape and affirm the post-colonial state – also on the way to a (pan-)African modernity to be created. The thesis is that political campaigns and the associated political engagement of women in the eventful transition period from colony to post-colony are based on voluntariness.

This project is part of the research group "Freiwilligkeit - Voluntariness"

Research Interests

  • Global History
  • History of Africa
  • Gender Studies
  • (Post-)Colonial Studies

Publications

Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Gender Parity and Ghanaian Politics, in: Europäische Jugendbildungs- und Begegnungsstätte Weimar "Migrant*innen als Fachkräfte der Jugendarbeit", 2020. open access

Scholarships and Prizes

April 2019 – June 2021
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service "Helmut Schmidt Scholarship for Public Policy and Good Governance", Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt