Academic rigor, journalistic flair
SNF Eccellenza Professor, University of Basel
Jon Schubert is an urban and political anthropologist working on infrastructures, climate change, extractive industries and neo-authoritarian statecraft, mainly in Lusophone Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and an MA from the University of Basel. A lapsed historian and erstwhile commercial risk forecaster, he is the author of 'Working the System. A Political Ethnography of the New Angola' (Cornell University Press, Sep. 2017) and a research professor in the Urban Studies division at the University of Basel
Experience
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2022–presentSNF Eccellenza Professor, University of Basel
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2021–2022Senior lecturer, University of Konstanz
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2018–2021Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Brunel University London
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2017–2018Senior research fellow, Université de Genève
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2015–2017Senior Research Fellow, Changing Stateness in Africa, University of Leipzig
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2010–2015Senior Africa Analyst, IHS Country Risk
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2008–2009Programme Assistant, peace policy, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne
Education
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2014University of Edinburgh, PhD
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2007University of Basel, MA African Studies
Grants and Contracts
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2021SNF Eccellenza professorial fellowship
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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2017Leverhulme ECF 2017-569
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- The Leverhulme trust
Professional Memberships
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- African Studies Association UK
- Swiss Society of African Studies
- Basel
- Website
- @jon_schubert
- Article Feed
- jon.schubert@uni-konstanz.de
- ORCID
- Joined
