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Dr. Serawit B. Debele is a Research Fellow and Leader of the Intersectionality Junior Research Group within the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth. She previously served as a Research Fellow at the Socio-Cultural Diversity (SCD) department. Her work focuses on religion, sexuality, political transformations, and intersectionality in Africa. She authored Locating Politics in Ethiopia’s Irreecha Ritual (2019) and co-edits the journal Secularism and Nonreligion. She co-convenes the African Academy for Urban Diversity (AAUD), managed by the SCD department at MPI-MMG.
Her research combines historical and ethnographic approaches to study sexuality discourses in Ethiopia and political shifts in Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Sudan. She leads projects exploring how socio-political orders shape inequalities and identities. Key areas include African feminism, intersectionality theory, and critiques of colonial academic canons in German African Studies.
Her team includes doctoral researchers Jihad Sifa Alfakir and Samah Khalaf Allah, focusing on political transformations and sexualities. She is actively involved in lecture series like African FeminismS Past and Present, emphasizing decolonizing methodologies and African women’s agency.
