Thomas Bierschenk (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany)

Submitted:  Mon., 1 September 2003


Thomas Bierschenk
Professor of Modern African Studies
Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
D-55099
Mainz 
Germany

phone:   +49 (0) 6131 392.2798
fax:     +49 (06131) 392.3730
e-mail:  biersche@mail.uni-mainz.de


Web: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ifeas/



Teaching and research in the areas of political sociology and anthropology
of Africa, with a focus on state construction and the local state
(democratization, decentralization, political economy of development),
and a regional focus on French-speaking West Africa.

Recent publication: 

Thomas Bierschenk & Jean-Pierre-Olivier de Sardan.  "Powers in the 
Village: Rural Benin between Democratisation and Decentralisation," 
Africa. vol. 73, no. 2 (2003): 145-173.