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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- African history
- History of the Portuguese-speaking world
- Religion, Christian missionaries, and Islam
- Civil wars, conflict resolution and mediation

1996 …2023

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Interests

Eric Morier-Genoud's research interests focus on history, religion, and politics in Africa, the Portuguese-speaking world and Europe. He has published books on the history of pre-colonial Mozambique, the history of Apartheid in South Africa and Switzerland, the history of the Roman Catholic church and the history of Islam in Mozambique. He presently works on the jihadi insurgency in northern Mozambique, on Irish missionaries in the world, and the history of Africans in Belfast.

He has undertaken conflict resolution work in the 2010s, many consultancie sinces, and on that basis he intervenes regularly in media such as The Times, BBC World Service, Le Monde, Público, Vatican News, Voice of America, Rádio Portugal, Swedish Radio, Swiss National Radio, Radio Al Aan, etc.

Research Statement

Undergraduate

  • HIS1001 History and Historians. Contested Pasts
  • HIS2061 Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
  • HIS3099 Religion and Empire, 1858-1980s

Postgraduate

  • MHY7089 Case Studies in History
  • MHY7093 Approaches to History

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • DT Africa
  • history
  • AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
  • BL Religion
  • JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration

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