cv Brigitta Benzing
Ph.D. in Ethnology, African and Semitic Studies from the University of Mainz. Assistant, later Assistant Professor at the same University. 1978-81: Teaching at the Universities of Zürich, Marburg, Tübingen, later also Berlin and Addis Ababa. 1981-2006 Full time Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Göttingen University. Actual Position: 2010 appointed at the Department of Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University. Fields of Research: Development Cooperation, Visual Arts, Urban Anthropology.