Team > Dr. Fulera Issaka-Toure

Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft

Academic Degrees

• Doctorate in Islamic Studies, University of Bayreuth, 2018.

Professional Background

• Since 10/2022: Research Fellow, Islamic Studies Department, University of Bayreuth
  
• Since 02/2021: Senior Lecturer at Religious Studies Department, University of Ghana (on research leave since 02/2021)
  
• 01/2021-09/2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Islamic Studies Department, University of Bayreuth
  
• 06/2019-01/2021: Lecturer at Religious Studies Department, University of Ghana, Legon (on research leave from 01/2020 till 01/2021)
  
• 06/2018-05/2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Islamic Studies Department, University of Bayreuth
  
• 10/2013-03/2018: Doctoral Researcher at BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth
  
• 05/2010-09/2011: Graduate Assistant at the Centre for Contemporary Islam, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  

Appointments, Functions, Scientific Activities

• 01/2021-12/2022: Postdoctoral Research funds Fritz Thyssen Foundation
  
• 06/2018-05/2019: Postdoctoral funding from the Bavarian Government through the University of Bayreuth
  
• 04/10-18/10 2019: Research Fellowship at the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth
  
• 12/2017-02/2018: BIGSAS Transition Funds
  
• 11/2017: Travel Grant from the International Club of the University of Bayreuth
  
• 11/2017: Conference Grant (for African Studies Association Conference 2017, Chicago) from the Equal Opportunity Department, University of Bayreuth.
  
• 08/2017: Conference Grant from the University of Amsterdam for workshop on Shia marriages
  
• 11/2016: Travel Grant (for African Studies Association Conference 2016, Washington) from Equal Opportunity Department, University of Bayreuth Scholarship for Female Doctoral Candidates from the Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Bayreuth
  
• 09/2016: Right Livelihood College Scholarship for Research on Human Rights in Africa and Asia
  
• Since 2016: Member of Steering Committee (secretary) and founding member, Islam in Africa Studies Group (IASG), Coordinate organization of the African Studies Association of the USA.
  
• Since 2016: Junior Scientist at Right Livelihood College, Bonn
  
• 07/2014: Conference Grant, University of Tubingen, Germany
  
• 10/2013-11/2017: Doctoral Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  
• 2013-2016: Ghana Education Trust Fund
  

• 2010-2011: National Research Foundation Bursary from the South African Government, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  

Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft

• Gender and Islamic Family Law
• Islamic movements (Sufi and Salafi)
• Gender and Authority
• Islam in the European Diaspora
• Regional Focus: West Africa (Ghana) and West African Diaspora (Germany)
  

Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft

Publications

Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft

Dr. Fulera Issaka-Toure
Postdoc

Building GW I, room 1.02

Office hours by appointment

Phone: +49 921 55 3552
E-mail: fulera.issaka-toure@uni-bayreuth.de

Postal address

University of Bayreuth
Islamic Studies Department
Dr. Fulera Issaka-Toure
95440 Bayreuth