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I am a social anthropologist studying international development, religion, self-accomplishment and education in East Africa. I am based at CEI-Iscte (Lisbon), where I am a tenure-track Principal Investigator in African Studies. At CEI-Iscte, I hold an FCT Stimulus grant (2022-2028) and serve as a PI for ERC Starting Grant AfDevLives: The Afterlives of Development Interventions in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, 2022-2027). In addition, I am a deputy PI on a Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia project called FamilEA: The Remaking of the Family in East Africa (2023-2027).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Yonatan Nissim Gez

Citation names

  • Yonatan N. Gez

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B211-A540-86AB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1831-3078
Google Scholar ID
af0OEVUAAAAJ
Researcher Id
ABG-9309-2021
Scopus Author Id
55191505300

Email addresses

  • yngzm@iscte.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Edificio 4, Sala B1.131 Avenida das Forças Armadas, N40, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Hebrew (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Swahili (generic) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/03
Concluded
 Estudos Africanos (Título de Agregado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2009/10/01 - 2014/12/01
Concluded
 Anthropology and Sociology of Development (Doutoramento)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
2009/10 - 2014/12
Concluded
 Anthropology and Sociology of Development (Doctor of Philosophy)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
"Religious Identity and Mobility in Nairobi: A ‘Religious Repertoire’ Approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 summa cum laude avec félicitations/top distinction
2013/10/01 - 2014/08/01
Concluded
 Certificate of Advanced Studies in Management of Development Projects (Pós-Graduação)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2013/10 - 2014/08
Concluded
 Certificate of Advanced Studies in Management of Development Projects (Postgraduate Certificate)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
 5 (out of 6)
2006/09/01 - 2008/08/01
Concluded
 Master of Studies (MSt) in Jewish-Christian Relations (Mestrado)
University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity, United Kingdom
2006/09 - 2008/08
Concluded
 Master of Studies (MSt) in Jewish-Christian Relations (Master)
University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity, United Kingdom
"Comfort in Bupkes: Jewish-Buddhists and Jewish–Christian Relations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 74% (first-class honours)
2003/09/01 - 2006/08/01
Concluded
 General Humanities and Jewish Philosophy (Bacharelato)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
2003/09 - 2006/08
Concluded
 General Humanities and Jewish Philosophy (Bachelor)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
 92 and 91 (distinction)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2010/10 - Current Researcher (Research) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
2022/09/01 - 2023/02/28 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2022/01/31 Postdoc (Research) Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
2020/10/01 - 2021/03/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2015/10 - 2019/09 Postdoc (Research) Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2018/07 - 2018/11 Visiting Researcher (Research) Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
2014/10 - 2015/09 Postdoc (Research) The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2015/01 - 2015/05 Postdoc (Research) French embassy in Switzerland, Switzerland
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/04 - 2018/12 Organic Unit Director The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/09 - 2028/08 Wellness and Self-Accomplishment Among Young Climate Activists in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021.02949.CEECIND
Research Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/02 - 2022/01 Local Phenomenologies and Legacies in the Afterlife of Development Interventions: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations
n/a
Post-doc Fellow
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Germany
 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Concluded
2018/10 - 2019/09 Who do FBOs speak for? The conundrum of representation
n/a
Individual one-year research funding (competitive)
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Concluded
2015/10 - 2019/09 Global Neo-Pentecostalism’s Socioeconomic Vision(s): The Prosperity Gospel and International Development
n/a
Post-doc Fellow
The Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
 Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Dienststelle Berlin
Concluded
2018/07 - 2018/11 Global Neo-Pentecostalism's Socioeconomic Vision(s): The Prosperity Gospel and International Development
n/a
Invited Scientist Fellow
The Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
 The Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
Concluded
2015/10 - 2017/09 Returning scholars grant, The Israeli Ministry of Absorption
n/a
Grant for returning Israeli scientists
The Israeli Ministry of Absorption
Concluded
2015/01 - 2015/05 Les pratiques religieuses pour se débrouiller dans la ville : Le cas de la classe moyenne urbaine au Kenya
n/a
Post-doc Fellow
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
 French embassy in Switzerland
Concluded
2010/10 - 2011/09 Yearly PhD scholarship
n/a
PhD Student Fellow
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
 The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
Concluded
2009/10 - 2010/09 Yearly PhD scholarship
n/a
PhD Student Fellow
la caisse de bourses pour étudiants juifs en Suisse
Concluded
2007/08 - 2008/08 Yearly MA scholarship
n/a
Master Student Fellow
Woolf Institute, United Kingdom
 Woolf Institute
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/06 - Current The Remaking of the Family in East Africa (FamilEA)
CRSll5_213547/1
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Ongoing
2022/09 - 2027/08 AfDevLives: The Afterlives of Development Interventions in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique)
101041788
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2017/10 - 2019/09 From Exclamation Marks to Question Marks: Critical Approaches to Development Studies
n/a
Principal investigator
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel

Glocal International Development Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Glocal International Development Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Concluded
2016/06 - 2019/06 Transnationalisation of Swiss Private Education (EDUTRANS)
N/a
Research Fellow
Haute École Pédagogique Fribourgeoise, Switzerland
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
2013/10 - 2015/02 Structures anthropologiques du religieux (StAR II): les formes du Butinage religieux. Études comparatives des pratiques religieuses (Brésil, Kenya, Suisse)
100013_146301
Researcher
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/04 - 2023/04 Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in East Africa (SALMEA)
10001AL_182304
Principal investigator
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland

Aix-Marseille Université, France
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
2020/08 - 2021/04 Funding towards an open-access publication of the book Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility
n/a
Grant towards an open-access book publication
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
2018/10 - 2020/12 Local Morality in East Africa: Self-Accomplishment, Gender, and the Reconfiguration of the Family Unit
n/a
Initiator and co-leader of a two-year research group (competitive funding)
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Concluded
2016/10 - 2019/09 Africounters: Encountering Sub-Saharan Africa, Encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa
n/a
Initiator and co-leader of research group (competitive funding)
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Concluded
2016/10 - 2018/09 Global Neo-Pentecostalism’s Socioeconomic Vision(s): The Prosperity Gospel and International Development
n/a
Two-year individual research grant (competitive funding)
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Concluded
2017/02 - 2017/06 Christian Renewal Movements in the Global South in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Religious, Social and Political Transformation
n/a
Grant towards the organization of an international conference
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
 Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Concluded
2016/04 - 2016/07 African Biographies: Method and Fieldwork Practice
n/a
Collective grant towards organizing an international academic workshop (competitive)
Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, Kenya

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
Concluded
2015/07 - 2015/10 (Re)Searching the Middle Class in Nairobi
n/a
Collective grant towards organizing an international academic workshop (competitive)
Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, Kenya
 The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Gez, Y. N.; Yvan Droz; Jeanne Rey; Edio Soares. Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2021.
    Published
  2. Gez, Y. N.. Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, and Pentecostalism: Religious Mobility and Religious Repertoires in Urban Kenya. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Yvan Droz; Marie-Aude Fouéré; Yonatan N. Gez. "Introduction: On the Art of Being Accomplished in East Africa". In The Art of Being Accomplished: Wealth, Status, and Respectability in East Africa, edited by Yvan Droz; Marie-Aude Fouéré; Yonatan N. Gez; Henri Médard. Paris & Nairobi: Africae, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Yonatan N. Gez. "The Happiness Movement: A Critical Reading". In The Art of Being Accomplished: Wealth, Status, and Respectability in East Africa, edited by Yvan Droz; Marie-Aude Fouéré; Yonatan N. Gez; Henri Médard. Paris & Nairobi: Africae, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Gez, Y. N.. "L'église en tant que prestataire de soutien matériel : perspective des cercles d’adhésion interne/externe". In Le Kenya en marche, 2000-2020, 325-329. Paris & Nairobi, France: Africae, 2020.
    Published
  4. Yvan Droz; Gez, Y. N.. "Les formes du religieux au Kenya". In Le Kenya en marche, 2000-2020, 301-324. Paris & Nairobi, France: Africae, 2020.
    Published
  5. Gez, Y. N.; Yvan Droz; Hervé Maupeu. "Religious tribalism, local morality and violence in Christian Kenya". In Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa, 102-120. London & New York, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2020.
    Published
  6. Gez, Y. N.. "Who Do Faith-Based Organizations Speak for? The Conundrum of Representation". In Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa, 39-59. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
    Published
  7. Gez, Y. N.; Adi Maya; Ido Benvenisti. "Tikkun Olam and Jewish Outreach within Jewish Faith-Based Organizations". In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration, 149-168. Baden-Baden, Germany: ZRWP and Nomos-Pano, 2020.
    Published
  8. Gez, Y. N.. "Conclusion". In International Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice, 301-318. Haifa, Israel: Pardes Publishing House, 2019.
    Published
  9. Lynn Schler; Gez, Y. N.. "Beyond Failure: Following Israel’s Post-Independence Development Plans in Zambia". In Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice, 257-281. Haifa, Israel: Pardes Publishing House, 2019.
    Published
  10. Yvan Droz; Gez, Y. N.; Carmen Delgado Luchner; Hervé Maupeu. "Pentecostalism and alternative paths for self-accomplishment in Kenya". In Religion and Human Security in Africa, 114-127. London & New York, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  11. Gez, Y. N.. "Scripture as a Template for Familiarity: Encounters Between a Complex Jewish-Israeli Identity and Conservative Christians in Kenya". In The Fields in Africa: Research Experiences and Construction of Data, 129-144. Haifa, Israel: Pardes Publishing House, 2016.
    Published
  12. Yvan Droz; Gez, Y. N.. "A God Trap: Seed Planting, Gift Logic, and the Prosperity Gospel". In Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond, 295-308. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, 2015.
    Published
  13. Gez, Y. N.; Tanya Alvis. "Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and the 2013 Kenyan Elections: Between Politics of the Spirit and Expanding Entrepreneurship". In Kenya’s Past as Prologue: Voters, Violence and the 2013 General Election, 96-115. Nairobi, Kenya: Twaweza and Heinrich Böll, 2015.
    Published
  14. Gez, Y. N.. "Les répertoires religieux: une approche englobante pour décrire la dynamique des identités religieuses". In Mobilité religieuse: Retours croisés des Afriques aux Amériques, 53-69. Paris, France: Karthala, 2014.
    Published
  15. Edio Soares; Yvan Droz; Gez, Y. N.. "Butinagem religiosa: a importancia da metafora para pensar o religioso". In A religião no espaço public, 111-137. São Leopoldo, Brazil: Editora Oikos, 2012.
    Published
  16. Galia Sabar; Gez, Y. N.. "I Know Nothing about Africa’: Children of Undocumented Sub-Saharan African Labor Migrants in Israel, between Integration and Deportation". In Searching for Better Future: Who Pays the Price? Foreign Workers – Multi-Layered Analysis, 77-93. New York, United States: Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
    Published
Book review
  1. Yonatan N. Gez. "A Village and Its NGOs: Co-Constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi, by Thomas McNamara". (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2286793.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2286793
Edited book
  1. Marie-Aude Fouéré; Yvan Droz; Yonatan N. Gez; Henri Médard; Peter Lockwood; Stéphanie Duvail; Hervé Maupeu; et al. The Art of Being Accomplished: Wealth, Status, and Respectability in East Africa. Paris & Nairobi: Africae. 2024.
    Accepted • Editor
  2. Yonatan N. Gez; Reut Barak-Weekes; Manya Kagan; Miri Stryjan; Benny Furst; Liora Bigon; Anat Rosenthal; et al. International Development in Africa: Between Theory and Practice. Haifa, Israel: Pardes Publishing House. 2019.
    Published • Editor
  3. Philippe Chanson; Yvan Droz; Yonatan N. Gez; Edio Soares; Ari Pedro Oro; Jean-François Bayart; Hervé Maupeu; et al. Mobilité religieuse: Retours croisés des Afriques aux Amériques. Paris, France: Karthala. 2014.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Gez, Y. N.; Eichhorn, B.; Ramos, M.; Ngure, F.; Matusse, A.; Kuenberg, K.. "Interacting in the Field: Iinsighs from a training involving a past water development intervention in Kakamega, Kenya". East African Review (2025):
    In press
  2. Yonatan N. Gez; Yvan Droz. "The Devil You Know...: Familiarity, Legitimacy, and Religious Mobility in Pentecostalised Kenya". Cahiers d'Études Africaines 253 (2024): 123-148.
    Published
  3. Clémentine Rossier; Valérie Golaz; Yonatan N. Gez; Yvan Droz. "Pour une approche interdisciplinaire de la famille en Afrique de l'Est". Recherches Familiales 20 (2023): 1A-13A.
    Published
  4. Clémentine Rossier; Valérie Golaz; Gez, Y. N.; Yvan Droz. "An interdisciplinary approach of the family in East Africa: insights from past and current research". Recherches familiales n° 20 1 (2023): 1a-13a.
    Published • 10.3917/rf.020.0360
  5. Marie-Aude Fouéré; Gez, Y. N.. "L’État et l’international au prisme des vestiges du développement rural en Tanzanie". Anthropologie & Développement (2022):
    Published
  6. Maupeu, H.; Gez, Y. N.; Droz, Y.. "Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya. Les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK)". Social Compass 69 4 (2022): 596-613. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/SCP.
    Published • 10.1177/00377686221105780
  7. Gez, Y. N.; Kroeker, L.. "The committee and the uncommitted: Material assistance to members in need at a Pentecostal Church in Western Kenya". Africa Today 69 1-2 (2022): 214-237. https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19.
    Published • 10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.10
  8. Gez, Y. N.; Marie-Aude Fouéré; Fabian Bulugu. "Telling Ruins: The Afterlives of an Early Post-Independence Development Intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania". Journal of Modern African Studies (2022):
    Published • 10.1017/S0022278X22000180
  9. Gez, Y. N.. "The afterlives of international development interventions: A site-specific ethnographic approach". Journal of Development Studies 57 9 (2021): 1511-1526. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/FJDS.
    Published • 10.1080/00220388.2021.1873288
  10. Kuhlin, J.; Gez, Y. N.. "Guest editorial: Pentecostalism and lived religion". PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 20 2 (2021): 121-129. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/PENT.
    Published • 10.1558/pent.43392
  11. Gez, Y. N.. "Religious return mobility in pentecostalized Kenya". PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 20 2 (2021): 130-151. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/PENT.
    Published • 10.1558/pent.41886
  12. Gez, Y. N.; Beider, N.; Dickow, H.. "African and not religious: The state of research on Sub-Saharan religious nones and new scholarly horizons". Africa Spectrum 57 1 (2021): 50-71. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr.
    Published • 10.1177/00020397211052567
  13. Rey, J.; Bolay, M.; Gez, Y. N.. "Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction". Critique of Anthropology 41 4 (2021): 331-344. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/critique-anthropology.
    Published • 10.1177/0308275X211059659
  14. Kagan, M.; Gez, Y. N.. "‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya". Critique of Anthropology 41 4 (2021): 389-404. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/critique-anthropology.
    Published • 10.1177/0308275X211059661
  15. Gez, Y. N.. "The vetting impasse: The ‘Churches Law’ and Kenya’s religious regulation debate". Journal of Religion in Africa 50 1-2 (2020): 54-78. https://brill.com/view/journals/jra/jra-overview.xml.
    Published • 10.1163/15700666-12340181
  16. Gez, Y. N.; Yvan Droz. "Breakthroughs, Blockages, and the Path to Self-Accomplishment: The Case of Pentecostal Church Founders in Kenya". Africa Today (2020):
    Published
  17. Rey, J.; Bolay, M.; Gez, Y. N.. "Precarious privilege: Personal debt, lifestyle aspirations and mobility among international school teachers". Globalisation, Societies and Education 18 4 (2020): 361-373. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/CGSE.
    Published • 10.1080/14767724.2020.1732193
  18. Droz, Y.; Gez, Y. N.. "Pentecôtisation du christianisme et butinage religieux au Kenya: Entre fondamentalisme et mode populaire d’action politico-religieuse". Canadian Journal of African Studies 53 2 (2019): 1-19. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/RCAS.
    Published • 10.1080/00083968.2019.1577146
  19. Gez, Y. N.; Droz, Y.. "'It’s All under Christianity': Religious territories in Kenya". Journal of Africana Religions 7 1 (2019): 37-61. https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_JAR.html.
    Published
  20. Lynn Schler; Yonatan N. Gez. "Development Shadows: The Afterlife of Collapsed Development Projects in the Zambian Copperbelt". Africa Spectrum 53 3 (2018): 3-31.
    Published
  21. Gez, Y. N.; Schuster, M.. "Borders and boundaries: Eritrean graduates reflect on their medical interpreting training". European Legacy 23 7-8 (2018): 821-836. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/CELE.
    Published • 10.1080/10848770.2018.1492810
  22. Gez, Y. N.; Droz, Y.. "The sheep-stealing dilemma: The ambiguities of church visits in Kenya". Journal of Religion in Africa 47 2 (2017): 163-189. https://brill.com/view/journals/jra/jra-overview.xml.
    Published • 10.1163/15700666-12340103
  23. Gez, Y. N.; Droz, Y.; Soares, E.; Rey, J.. "From converts to itinerants: Religious Butinage as dynamic identity". Current Anthropology 58 2 (2017): 141-159. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ca/current.
    Published • 10.1086/690836
  24. Droz, Y.; Soares, E.; Gez, Y. N.; Rey, J.. "La mobilité religieuse à l’aune du butinage". Social Compass 63 2 (2016): 251-267. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/social-compass.
    Published • 10.1177/0037768616629305
  25. Gez, Y. N.; Johannes M. Waldmueller; Anthony Boanada-Fuchs. "(Re)Searching the Middle Class in Nairobi: Insights from an Interdisciplinary Workshop". Ifriqiya 1 10 (2015): 1-4.
    Published
  26. Gez, Y. N.; Droz, Y.. "Negotiation and erosion of born again prestige in Nairobi". Nova Religio 18 3 (2015): 18-37. https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/.
    Published • 10.1525/nr.2015.18.3.18
  27. Herbst, A.; Gez, Y. N.. "From “Crime of Passion” to “Love Does Not Kill”: The murder of Einav Rogel and the role of Na'amat women's organization in the construction of violence against women in Israel". Israel Studies 17 2 (2012): 129-155. https://www.jstor.org/journal/israelstudies.
    Published • 10.2979/israelstudies.17.2.129
  28. Gez, Y. N.. "The phenomenon of Jewish Buddhists in light of the history of Jewish suffering". Nova Religio 15 1 (2011): 44-68. https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/.
    Published • 10.1525/nr.2011.15.1.44
Journal issue
  1. Julia Kuhlin; Yonatan N. Gez. "Pentecostalism and Lived Religion". PentecoStudies 20 2 (2022):
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Jeanne Rey; Matthieu Bolay; Yonatan N. Gez. "Cosmopolitan Enclaves". Cosmopolitan Enclaves 41 4 (2021):
    Published • Editor
  3. Jeanne Rey; Matthieu Bolay; Gez, Y. N.. "Critique of Anthropology". Critique of Anthropology 41 4 (2021):
    Published • Editor
  4. Julia Kuhlin; Gez, Y. N.. "PentecoStudies". PentecoStudies 20 2 (2021):
    Published • Editor
Magazine article
  1. Yvan Droz; Yonatan N. Gez. "Mobilité religieuse et athéisme au Kenya", The Conversation, 2021, https://theconversation.com/mobilite-religieuse-et-atheisme-au-kenya-163020.
Newspaper article
  1. Yonatan N. Gez. "Vidas seguintes entre Portugal, o Médio Oriente e a África Oriental", Público, 2022, https://www.publico.pt/2022/08/27/ciencia/noticia/vidas-seguintes-portugal-medio-oriente-africa-oriental-2018147?ref=hp&cx=stories_cover__important_b--638803.
Online resource
  1. Yonatan N. Gez. Learning from Student Dissertations: Lessons from Kenya. Blog entry on ALMA Reviews, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute.. 2020. https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/alma-reviews-blog-learning-from-student-dissertations-lessons-from-kenya.
  2. Yonatan N. Gez; Claire Médard; Stéphanie Duvail. Repertoires and Motifs of Funerary Practices in Nandi Hills. Blog entry on the SALMEA blog. 2020. https://salmea.hypotheses.org/fieldwork-2.
  3. Lina Nikou; Maria Zhukova; Julian Torres Dowdall; Yonatan N. Gez. The Experiment: What Are Errors and Why Do We Keep on Making Them? Blog entry on the Martin Buber Society of Fellows website. 2019. https://buberfellows.huji.ac.il/blog/experiment-what-are-errors-and-why-do-we-keep-making-them.
  4. Yonatan N. Gez; Andrea Steinke. Das Nach-Leben von Entwicklungshilfeprojekten: «Misserfolg» als Chance // The 'Afterlives' of Development Interventions: 'Failure' as an Opportunity. History of the Present. 2019. https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-nach-leben-von-entwicklungshilfeprojekten-misserfolg-als-change/.
Report
  1. Anthony Boanada-Fuchs; Gez, Y. N.; Johannes M. Waldmueller. 2016. (Re)Searching the Middle Class in Nairobi.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gez, Y. N.. "Religious Identity and Mobility in Nairobi: A ‘Religious Repertoire’ Approach". PhD, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, 2014.
  2. Gez, Y. N.. "Comfort in Bupkes: Jewish-Buddhists and Jewish–Christian Relations". Master, University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity, 2008.
Working paper
  1. Lena Kroeker; Yonatan N. Gez. 2022. "The Committee and the Uncommitted: Material Assistance to Members in Need at a Pentecostal Church in Western Kenya". https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/6019/1/WP%2028_Academy%20Reflects%205_Kroeker%20and%20Gez.pdf.
  2. Helga Dickow; Nadia Beider; Gez, Y. N.. 2021. "Religious Nones in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Do We Know and what Would We Like to Know?". https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/religious-nones-in-sub-saharan-africa-what-do-we-know-and-what-would-we-like-to-know.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Project SALMEA: Travelling photo exhibition (co-organized; photos by Ania Gruca). 2024.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12 Presentation of the 2023 AfDevLives ECRIS
Presentation at the second annual meeting of the Consequential Anthropology Working Group, King’s College London (remote presentation)
2023/11 The Afterlives of Development Interventions in East Africa: A Selection of Case Studies Presentation at MA course Europe-Africa Relations, Iscte (with Berenike Eichhorn, Keren Kuenberg, Francis Ngure, Carla Bertin, and Anselmo Matusse)
2023/11 A full-day academic writing workshop for AfDevLives team members
CEI-Iscte
2023/10 Les 'afterlives' de Kefinco: leçons d'un atelier collectif
Guest lecture in the course Anthropologie des Projets de Développement, IHEID
2023/10 ERC Project AfDevLives
Lecture at a conference celebrating 10 years to CEI-Iscte and opening session of the doctoral program in international studies, Iscte
2023/09 "Academic collaborations" and "Lessons from two ECRISes"
Two lectures at a preparatory survey workshop for Project FamilEA, INED Paris
2023/06 Tracing the afterlives of development: phenomenological directions Presentation in the panel "Ghost projects – ruined futures and the promises of development”, the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Cologne
2022/12 Autonomisation, autosuffisance, pouvoirs célestes: une réflexion critique sur "le mouvement du bonheur"
Special lecture in the course Les structures anthropologiques du religieux : religions, sorcelleries et conversions, IHEID
2022/11 Para além dos limites oficiais dos projetos de desenvolvimento
Special lecture in the course Seminário Teórico em Estudos Africanos, PhD in African Studies, Iscte
2022/11 Kefinco: a case study in European-African development cooperation
Special lecture in the course Europe-Africa Relations, MA in International Studies and African Studies, Iscte (with Claire Médard, Elisabeth Schubiger, and Ilmari Huotari)
2022/11 Lessons from the Afterlives of Development Interventions Lecture at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) (remote presentation)
2022/11 Religion and Development: Friends and Foes
Special lecture in the course Organizações Internacionais, Ongs e Movimentos Sociais, MA in Development Studies and International Studies, Iscte
2022/10 Collaborative work in an ERC project Special lecture at a doctoral seminar, University of Coimbra (with Berenike Eichhorn, Keren Kuenberg, and Francis Ngure)
2022/09 Spelling Climate Crisis in East Africa: Worldviews, Narratives, and Action The 8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), Évora
2022/09 The Afterlives of Development Interventions: Concepts and (Creative) Methods Workshop at an EASA Applied Anthropology Network conference (WWNA) (online participation)
2022/07 The ERC Application Experience
Intervention at an ERC project preparation event organized by Iscte’s research office
2022/07 Project AfDevLives and Grant Writing
Special lecture at St. Augustine’s University of Tanzania (SAUT)
2022/07 Project AfDevLives: Preparatory meeting
A hybrid meeting attached to a SALMEA workshop in Zanzibar
2022/07 International Aspirations in Low-Fee Private Schools: The Case of Bridge International Academies in Kenya The 11th Iberian Conference on African Studies, Lisbon
2022/06 L'approche statistique des religions en Afrique: un enjeu scientifique et politique The 7th Rencontres des Études africaines en France (with Yvan Droz), Toulouse
2022/05 Research collaborations
Guest lecturer in the Seminar of International Studies, PhD in International Studies, CEI-Iscte
2022/04 Special lecture to staff and graduate students on the afterlives of international development and project AfDevLives, Moi University
Moi University (Kenya)
2022/04 Thinking Afterlives in Western Kenya
SALMEA online meeting (with Claire Médard and Elisabeth Schubiger)
2022/03 Forgetting unevenly: Bottom-up reengagement with long-departed development actors Guest lecture in the course Anthropologie des Projets de Développement
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland)
2021/10 Religion and international development in the context of Project MYNA Special seminar for FCT project Mystical Nature (MYNA)
CEI-ISCTE (Portugal)
2021/09 Religious ‘Nones’ and Atheists in Eastern Africa: Identity and Social Perceptions New Gulf Streams: The Middle East and Eastern Africa Intersected
CEI-ISCTE (Portugal)
2021/08 AfDevLives: The Afterlives of Development Interventions in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique) Special lecture at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Germany)
2021/07 AfDevLives: The Afterlives of Development Interventions in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique) Lecture at a SALMEA research workshop
Aix-Marseille Université (France)
2021/07 Phenomenological methods in international development: An experimental workshop Lecture at the launching event of the book “Drawing Heritage(s)”
2021/05 None-Issue: A Closer Look at 'Religious Nones' in Sub-Saharan Africa Guest lecture in the course Les Structures Anthropologiques du Religieux: Religions, Sorcelleries et Conversions
IHEID Geneva
2021/02 Wellness and Self-Accomplishment Among Young Climate Activists in Sub-Saharan Africa Presented at the Café dos Investigadores (remote presentation due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
CEI-ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/12 Les non-religieux en Afrique Quantification et démographie des religions en Afrique
journée d’étude, CEPED–URMIS (Paris, France)
2020/12 Ouvrage à Paraître: ‘Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility’ Quantification et démographie des religions en Afrique
Journée d’étude, CEPED–URMIS (Paris, France)
2020/11 Os 'afterlives' de iniciativas de desenvolvimento internacional na África Oriental Pensar Africa: seminário Permanente em Estudos Africanos
CEI-ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/10 The "Happiness Movement" and the Challenge of Universalization Guest lecture in the course "Du bien et du mal: Anthropologie de l'éthique et des moralités locales" / "Of Good and Evil: An Anthropology of Ethics and Local Moralities"
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2020/10 Quand les organisations partent: les 'afterlives' des projets de développement sur le terrain Guest lecture in the course "L'Afrique comme terrain d'intervention: l'aide humanitaire et l'aide au développement au 21e siècle"
University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
2020/06 Pentecostalism and Self-Accomplishment in East Africa: Introducing Project SALMEA Keynote lecture at the colloquium of the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development, Humboldt University of Berlin
The Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development, Humboldt University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2020/05 Representations and Misrepresentations in Cases of Religion and Development in Africa Guest lecture in the course Contemporary Representations of Africa in Popular Culture
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2020/05 The Afterlives of Development Interventions: Traces, Legacies, and Lived Experiences Guest lecture in the course Anthropologie des Projets de Développement
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2020/02 Aspirational Futures in Low-Fee Private Schools in Kenya: The Case of Bridge International Academies (BIA) East Africa research seminar, Project SALMEA
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
2020/01 How Is Marriage Changing in East Africa? Challenges and Hopes for the Future External guest, research workshop Imagining Gender Futures in Uganda (IMAGENU)
Gulu University (Gulu, Uganda)
2019/10 Traces of Development in Tanzania and Zambia: Reflections on the 'Afterlives' of Development Interventions Seminar lecture
The Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Freiburg, Germany)
2019/06 MASHAV and the Moshav: What Became of Israeli-Led Agricultural Cooperatives in Zambia and Tanzania from the 1960s and 1970s? Lecture at a special panel organized by Glocal International Development
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2019/05 Bees, Butinage, and Born-Again Christians: Lessons from a Comparative Study Lecture at the Anthropological Forum
The University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
2019/03 The Vetting Impasse: Debating Regulations over Kenya’s Religious Market Lecture at the Africounters workshop series, The Truman Institute
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2019/02 The Afterlives of Development Interventions: Traces, Legacies, and Lived Experiences Guest lecture in the course Anthropologie des projets de développement
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2019/02 Modern Families in East Africa: Shifting Family Compositions in Kenya and Uganda Special lecture at the Truman Institute
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2019/01 Perpetuum Mobile: The Art of Religious Mobility Presentation at the anthropology colloquium
University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
2018/11 Unpacking the Epithet ‘International’ in Schools and Churches in Contemporary Kenya Guest lecture in the course Comprendre l’Afrique de l’Est Aujourd’hui: Histoire et Anthropologie
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2018/11 Introducing Project SALMEA (Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in Eastern Africa) Lecture at the Jour Fixe, Zukunftskolleg
University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
2018/06 Challenges and Errors Co-hosting poster group at "Uncertainties," a joint workshop of the MBSF of HUJI and the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz
University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
2018/05 Better the Devil You Know? Familiarity as an Organizing Principle among Urban Christians in Kenya Lecture at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows Colloquium
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2018/03 Social Norms, State Regulations, and Individual Practice in the Making of Religious Landscapes: A Perspective from Kenya Lecture at the workshop series Actualité de la Recherche en Afrique de l’Est, Afrique Australe et dans l’Océan Indien, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
2018/02 The Afterlife of Failure: Return to Israel’s Abandoned Development Initiatives in Tanzania and Zambia Guest lecture in the course Anthropologie des Projets de Développement
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2018/01 Religious Return Mobility: Insights from Kenya and Beyond Departmental Seminar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2017/11 Who Do FBOs Speak for? The Conundrum of Representation Workshop titled: Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and the Provision of Social Welfare in Contemporary Africa
University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)
2017/05 Mapping Dynamic Religious Identity: Practice, Familiarity, and the Religious Repertoire Model Presented at “Self-Reflective Traditions,” a joint workshop between CERES, Ruhr-University of Bochum and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Bochum (Bochum, Germany)
2017/05 Scripture as a Template for Familiarity? Twofold Otherness in Researcher-Interviewee Interaction in Kenya Presented at the book lunch event for the book The Fields in Africa: Research Experiences and Construction of Data, the Truman Institute
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2017/04 The Sheep-Stealing Dilemma: The Ambiguities of Church Visits in Kenya and Beyond Guest lecture in the course Les Structures Anthropologiques du Religieux: Religions, Sorcelleries et Conversions
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2017/04 Unpacking Religious Mobility: Insights from Kenya and Key Factors Festival Histoire et Cité
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2017/02 Réflexions sur les Classes d'Âge et de Genre chez les Pentecôtistes Kenyans Lecture at the workshop series Actualité de la Recherche en Afrique de l’Est, Afrique Australe et dans l’Océan Indien
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
2016/06 The Religious Repertoires Model: Exploring Implications and Applications Presented in “Mobility: A concept and a way of life,” a joint workshop of MBSF at HUJI and the Zukunftskolleg
University of Konstanz (Singen, Germany)
2016/06 Coming of Age in an Age of Change: Traditional Ethos, Born Again Identity, and Self-Accomplishment in Contemporary Kenya Special lecture at the Truman Institute
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2016/02 The Afterlife of Failure: Lessons from Israel’s Abandoned Development Settlements in Zambia and Tanzania Lecture at the Martin Buber Society Colloquium
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2015/12 The Afterlife of Failure: Revisiting Israel's Abandoned Development Settlements in Zambia and Tanzania Guest lecturer at the Glocal International Development Studies Seminar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2015/11 The Rising Middle Class in Nairobi: Insights from an Interdisciplinary Workshop The Africa Tribune
Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
2014/12 Religious Mobility in Kenya Guest lecturer at the Glocal International Development Studies Seminar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2014/11 Mobilité religieuse - Retours croisés des Afriques aux Amériques ANSO colloquium
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2014/04 La Mobilité Religieuse des Femmes: Regards sur le Brésil et le Kenya / Religious Mobility by Women: Perspectives from Brazil and Kenya The Gender Seminar Series
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2014/02 Rethinking Religious Identity, Participation, and Mobility Using the ‘Religious Repertoire’ Approach: The Case of Nairobi Interdisciplinary doctoral seminar
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2013/11 Religious Mobility in Nairobi: A ‘Religious Repertoire’ Perspective The Africa Tribune
Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
2013/04 Du Butinage Religieux: Nouvelle Perspective Anthropologique sur le Phénomène Religieux Guest lecture at the course Structures Anthropologiques du Religieux
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
2012/10 Methodology in Practice: Religious Mobility and Religious Discontent in Nairobi Graduate research seminar, Centre for African Studies
University of Basel (Basel, Switzerland)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/22 - Current Towards a spatial audio-visual narrations of a place - multi-dimensional participatory capturing the afterlife of former development projects
Supervisor of Keren Kuenberg
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2023/09 Co-organized a preparatory survey workshop for Project FamilEA, INED, Paris (2023)
2023/08 - 2023/08 Co-organized a one-week collaborative ECRIS workshop as part of Project FamilEA, Kampala (2023)
2023/08 - 2023/08 Co-organized and co-taught a one-week thematic seminar for first-year PhD students in Development and Society, Department of Sociology, Eduardo Mondlane University, titled “Para além dos limites oficiais dos projetos de desenvolvimento”. The seminar was taught jointly with Anselmo Matusse, Carla Bertin, and Orlando Nipassa. (2023)
2023/07 - 2023/07 Co-organized a one-week collaborative ECRIS workshop as part of Project FamilEA, Nairobi (2023)
2023/06 - 2023/07 Co-organized a three-part collaborative ECRIS workshop focused on Kenyan-Finnish water development project (KEFINCO), Western Kenya, as part of ERC Project AfDevLives. The two-week workshop included AfDevLives’ inaugural event at IFRA-Nairobi and a symposium at Moi University, Eldoret (2023)
2023/06 - 2023/06 Co-organized the inaugural conference for Project FamilEA at IHEID, Geneva (2023)
2023/05 - 2023/05 Co-organized an international final event (research meeting and public conference) for Project SALMEA at CEI-Iscte (2023)
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/01 Co-organizing the panel ¿Françafrique in the Sahel: Contemporary Perspectives on an Ambiguous Relationship¿, the annual conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) (2022/06/01)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/05 - 2022/06 Co-organized and co-taught a one-week thematic seminar for first-year PhD students in Development and Society, Department of Sociology, Eduardo Mondlane University, titled “Para além dos limites oficiais dos projetos de desenvolvimento”. The seminar was taught jointly with Angela Kronenburg García. (2022)
2022/04 - 2022/04 Co-organized and taught an academic grant writing workshop for staff and graduate students, Moi University (2022)
Workshop
2021/08/01 - 2021/09/01 Co-organizing a two-part methodological workshop titled “The Afterlives of International Development” and aimed at graduate Eastern African students (Kenyans, Tanzanians, and Mozambicans) (2021/08/01)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/08 - 2021/09 Co-organizing a two-part methodological workshop titled “The Afterlives of International Development” and aimed at graduate Eastern African students (Kenyans, Tanzanians, and Mozambicans) (2021/08 - 2021/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Germany
2020/07/01 - 2020/07/01 Co-organizing the panel "Temporal Horizons in Development and Humanitarian Interventions: Traces, 'Afterlives', and Unintended Consequences". The European Association of Social Anthropologists (remote conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic). (2020/07/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2020/07 - 2020/07 Co-organizing the panel "Temporal Horizons in Development and Humanitarian Interventions: Traces, 'Afterlives', and Unintended Consequences". The European Association of Social Anthropologists (remote conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic). (2020/07 - 2020/07)
Congress (Other)
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/01 Co-organizing an international collective research workshop ('ECRIS') on the theme of cemeteries, death, and self-accomplishment in the context of Project SALMEA (Nandi Hills, Kenya) (2019/07/01)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/01 Co-organizing the international conference "A Well-Led Life: Honour, Authority and Wealth in East Africa", hosted by IFRA-Nairobi (2019/07/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/07 - 2019/07 Co-organizing the international conference "A Well-Led Life: Honour, Authority and Wealth in East Africa", hosted by IFRA-Nairobi (2019/07 - 2019/07)
Congress (Co-organisor)
2019/07 - 2019/07 Co-organizing an international collective research workshop ('ECRIS') on the theme of cemeteries, death, and self-accomplishment in the context of Project SALMEA (Nandi Hills, Kenya) (2019/07 - 2019/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2019/05/01 - 2019/05/01 Co-organizing a conference in memory of Africanist and ambassador Arye Oded. (2019/05/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/05 - 2019/05 Co-organizing a conference in memory of Africanist and ambassador Arye Oded (2019/05)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2018/08/01 - 2018/08/01 Co-organizing a panel titled "Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Tensions and Paradoxes." The European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm (2018/08/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/08 - 2018/08 Co-organizing a panel titled "Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Tensions and Paradoxes." The European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm (2018/08)
Congress (Other)
2018/06/01 - 2018/06/01 Co-organizing a conference titled "Keywords in African Studies: Annual Conference for Young Scholars in African Studies." (2018/06/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/06 - 2018/06 Co-organizing a conference titled "Keywords in African Studies: Annual Conference for Young Scholars in African Studies." (2018/06)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2017/11/01 - 2017/11/01 Organizing a symposium titled "Weapon Trade - Vital Concerns: The Question of Weapon Export to Conflict Zones." (2017/11/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017/11 - 2017/11 Organizing a symposium titled "Weapon Trade - Vital Concerns: The Question of Weapon Export to Conflict Zones." (2017/11)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/01 Co-organizing an international conference titled “Christian Renewal Movements in the Global South in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Religious, Social and Political Transformation.” (2017/05/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/01 Co-organizing an international seminar titled “Democratization, Religion, and the Pursuit of Peace in Africa.” (2017/05/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017/05 - 2017/05 Co-organizing an international conference titled "Christian Renewal Movements in the Global South in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Religious, Social and Political Transformation" (2017/05)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2017/05 - 2017/05 Co-organizing an international seminar titled "Democratization, Religion, and the Pursuit of Peace in Africa" (2017/05)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2016/03/01 - 2016/03/01 Co-organizing an international seminar titled “Africa and Israel: Policy and Leadership.” (2016/03/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016/03 - 2016/03 Co-organizing an international seminar titled "Africa and Israel: Policy and Leadership" (2016/03)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2015/09/01 - 2015/09/01 Co-organizing a workshop titled “(Re)Searching the Middle Class in Nairobi.” A multidisciplinary ten-day workshop, University of Basel and Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA). (2015/09/01)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2015/09 - 2015/09 Co-organizing a workshop titled “(Re)Searching the Middle Class in Nairobi.” A multidisciplinary ten-day workshop, University of Basel and Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA). (2015/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, Kenya
2013/04/01 - 2013/04/01 Co-organizing an international conference titled “Nouveaux Mouvements Religieux: Retours Croisés des Afriques aux Amériques,” IHEID and the University of Geneva. (2013/04/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013/04 - 2013/04 Co-organizing an international conference titled “Nouveaux Mouvements Religieux: Retours Croisés des Afriques aux Amériques,” IHEID and the University of Geneva. (2013/04)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2012/04/01 - 2012/04/01 Co-organizing an international conference titled “Mobilité Religieuse en Afrique de l’Est / Religious Mobility in Eastern Africa,” IHEID, the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), and the Catholic University of East Africa (2012/04/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2012/04 - 2012/04 Co-organizing an international conference titled “Mobilité Religieuse en Afrique de l’Est / Religious Mobility in Eastern Africa,” IHEID, the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), and the Catholic University of East Africa (2012/04)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, Kenya

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/10 - 2022/10 Participant in the workshop "Tracing (Climate) Crisis, Visualizing Change: Imagining and Activating A Counter-Atlas of the Trace" Part of COST Action TRACTS
2022/09 - 2022/10 Participant in the workshop "Peripheral Memories, Transnational Mobilities: Decolonial Approaches to Visual and Material Traces of Empire" Part of COST Action TRACTS
2020/07 - 2020/07 Presentation title: "Lessons from a Collective Collection: Following an ECRIS Fieldwork in Kenya"
Congress
 The 16th EASA Biennial Conference (remote presentation due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2020/02 - 2020/02 Presentation title: "Lived Religion, Familiarity, and Pentecostalism in Kenya"
Congress
 GloPent 2020, University of Basel
2018/11 - 2018/11 Presentation title: "Opérationnaliser une Approche au Niveau Local dans l'« Afterlife » des Projets de Développement"
Congress
 Conference organized by the research group Développement, Mémoire, Territoire: “Le Développement dans le Retroviseur!”
2018/08 - 2018/08 Presentation title: "Aspiring to the International in Nairobi: The Case of Bridge International Academies"
Congress
 The 15th EASA Biennial Conference, Stockholm
2018/05 - 2018/05 Presentation title: "Religious Butinage: A Metaphorical Approach to Religious Mobility"
Congress
 The Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Dimona
2017/09 - 2017/09 Presentation title: "Pentecostal Churches as Support Networks: Insights from Kisumu, Kenya"
Congress
 The Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research, focus theme: “Religion and Poverty.” Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg
2017/06 - 2017/06 Presentation title: "Born Again Identity and Self-Accomplishment in Contemporary Kenya"
Congress
 “Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban.” The 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Basel
2017/06 - 2017/06 Presentation title: "The Privilege of Taking Your Time: Towards an Ethnographic Comparison of Private and Public Primary Schooling in Kenya"
Congress
 “Time in Education and Training.” The Congress of the Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE), Fribourg
2017/05 - 2017/05 Presentation title: "From Converts to Itinerants: Rethinking Religious Identities Using the Butinage Metaphor"
Congress
 “Christian Renewal Movements in the Global South in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Religious, Social and Political Transformation,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017/05 - 2017/05 Presentation title: "Religious Butinage: A Response to Politico-Religious Fundamentalism?"
Congress
 "Democratization, Religion, and the Pursuit of Peace in Africa"
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2016/10 - 2016/10 Presentation title: "Scripture as a Template for Familiarity? Twofold Othering in Researcher-Interviewee Interaction in Kenya"
Workshop
 Presented at: ¿The challenges of carrying out 'research at home,'¿ Point Sud
2016/03 - 2016/03 Presentation title: "Lessons from Israel's Rural Development Cooperation Schemes in Zambia and Tanzania (1960s-1970s)"
Congress
 Conference titled "Africa and Israel: Policy and Leadership"
The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel
2014/10 - 2014/10 Presentation title: "Churching, Clubbing and Hopping: Rethinking Church Participation in Kenya in Terms of Entertainment and the Appeal of Music"
Congress
 Presented at: “The Transnationalization of Religion Through Music.” University of Montreal.
2014/10 - 2014/10 Presentation title: "La Mobilité Religieuse et la Question du Retour: Un Regard sur Nairobi"
Congress
 Presented at: “Mobilité(s).” l'Association canadienne des sociologues et anthropologues de langue française (ACSALF) and the University of Ottawa.
2014/07 - 2014/07 Presentation title: "Religion and Development: Prosperity Gospel and the Vision of Infinite Growth among Evangelical-Pentecostals in Kenya"
Congress
 Presented at: “Development Ethics: Contributions for a Socially Sustainable Future.” The International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) and the University of Costa Rica.
2013/11 - 2013/11 Presentation title: "Negotiating Pentecostal Prestige in Nairobi"
Congress
 The Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Ethnography (SSE/SEG), Sierra.
2013/10 - 2013/10 Presentation title: "From Religious Practices to Religious Familiarity: Lessons from Nairobi and the Concept of Religious Repertoire"
Congress
 Presented at: “Lived Religion: Studying Religious Practice,” Leiden University.
2013/04 - 2013/04 Presentation title: "Towards a Pragmatic Model of Religious Mobility: Lessons from Nairobi"
Congress
 Presented at: ¿Nouveaux Mouvements Religieux: Retours Croisés des Afriques aux Amériques,¿ IHEID and the University of Geneva
2013/02 - 2013/02 Presentation title: "Institutional Confidence, Alleged Religious Mistrust, and Religious Behaviour in Nairobi"
Congress
 Doctoral seminar on religious pluralism in Africa, Point Sud, Ouagadougou
2012/06 - 2012/06 Presentation title: "Explorative Observations on the Interplay Between Religious and Socio-Economic Mobility in Nairobi"
Congress
 Workshop on the middle class in Kenya, Centre for African Studies (CREPAO), University of Pau.
2012/05 - 2012/05 But How Can They Afford It? Exploring the ‘Business Model’ Behind the Establishment of Small Independent Churches in Nairobi’s Slums
Congress
 Presented at: “Africa Entrepreneurs – Past and Present,” the Interuniversity Program for African Studies, Be’er Sheva
2012/04 - 2012/04 Changing Church, Changing the Church: Religious Mobility, Membership and Church Visits in Nairobi
Congress
 Presented at: ¿Mobilité Religieuse en Afrique de l¿Est / Religious Mobility in Eastern Africa,¿ IHEID, the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), and the Catholic University of East Africa
2012/02 - 2012/02 Presentation title: "Religious Butinage"
Workshop
 Doctoral seminar on religious pluralism in Africa, Point Sud, Bamako
2012/02 - 2012/02 Presentation title: "'Home Fellowships' et le Cycle de Fragmentation dans des Églises indépendantes: Observations des Bidonvilles de Nairobi"
Congress
 Presented at: ¿Le Pluralisme Religieux,¿ the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - Current Journal of Contemporary African Studies
2020 - Current Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
2020 - Current The Journal of Religion and Development
2020 - Current PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
2019 - Current Critique of Anthropology

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current The Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) at the University of Freiburg
2018 - Current The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
2016 - Current The Israeli Association of African Studies (IAAS) Founding member
2016 - Current Africounters Founding member
2010/01/01 - Current Fellow at the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA), Nairobi

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/11 - 2018/11 Observer and discussant in the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference observation workshop, Nairobi Institut de recherche pour le développement, France

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02 - 2024/07 Desafios Contemporâneos e Mudança em Africa Doutoramento em Estudos Africanos (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/02 Desafios Contemporâneos e Mudança em Africa / Contemporary Challenges and Change in Africa (co-teaching) Estudos Africanos (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/01 Seminário Teórico em Estudos Africanos I Doutoramento em Estudos Africanos (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/04 - 2021/07 Research in Development Studies: Interventions and their (Un)Intended Consequences Governance Major, University College Freiburg (BA), University of Freiburg (An extended weekly curse, four hours per week; taught online due to the COVID-19 pandemic) (Bachelor) University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Germany
2020/10 - 2021/02 Happiness Governance Major, University College Freiburg (BA), University of Freiburg (An extended weekly curse, four hours per week; taught online due to the COVID-19 pandemic) (Bachelor) University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Germany
2019/08 - 2019/08 Anthropology of International Development Department of History and Sociology (BA block course), University of Konstanz (Bachelor) Universität Konstanz, Germany
2019/02 - 2019/06 Thesis Writing: Individual Guidance Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2018/08 - 2018/08 Anthropology of International Development Department of History and Sociology (BA block course), University of Konstanz (Bachelor) Universität Konstanz, Germany
2018/02 - 2018/06 Thesis Writing: Individual Guidance Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2017/10 - 2018/01 Religion and International Development Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2016/10 - 2017/01 Academic Writing Glocal International Development Studies (international MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2016/10 - 2017/01 Religion and International Development Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2016/03 - 2016/06 Religion and International Development Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2014/11 - 2014/12 Guidance in Academic Writing Glocal International Development Studies (MA) (four-session student enrichment seminar) (Master) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2019 "Pentecostalism and Alternative Paths for Self-Accomplishment in Kenya": Interview for the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies' Research Office (with Yvan Droz) The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/01 - 2022/01 New Books Network (NBN) podcast series on World Christianity Podcast interview about the book Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility (with Yvan Droz and Jeanne Rey)
2022/01 - 2022/01 Radio TSF Radio interview about my ERC grant AfDevLives
2020 - 2020 Research Bites: The Martin Buber Society of Fellows Podcast Podcast interview about my research on religion in Kenya

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - Current Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est