Serena Owusua Dankwa

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Serena Owusua Dankwa (born March 2, 1975 ) is a Swiss gender researcher, television presenter and journalist .

academic career

Dankwa attended the pedagogical-social high school at the new canton school in Aarau from 1990 to 1994 . After studying guitar at the Lucerne School of Music, she trained at the Swiss Radio DRS . She then completed an MA in African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 2014, Dankwa received her doctorate from the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern with a thesis on Gender and Same-Sex Intimacies in Postcolonial Ghana (to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019 ).

During her doctoral studies, Dankwa completed research stays at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality (IRWGS) at Columbia University , New York (with a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation ) and as a Sarah Pettit Fellow at Yale University , New Haven (LGBT studies scholarship holder Yale University program). Dankwa laid the empirical basis of her dissertation during a research stay in Ghana in collaboration with the Center for Popular Education and Human Rights Ghana and the University of Ghana (funded by the Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries, KFPE).

From 2006 to 2009, Dankwa was a fellow of the graduate college at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research IZFG at the University of Bern , financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Professional activities

Professionally, Dankwa worked from 1998 to 2014 as a freelance music editor at DRS 2 Kultur . In addition, she worked as a guitar teacher and realized performance projects in anti-racist and queer-feminist contexts. From 2000 to 2002 she moderated the specials on DRS 3 . From 2003 to 2008 she was a freelancer of the program "World Routes" by BBC Radio 3 . From summer 2007 to autumn 2009 she worked for Swiss television as a presenter for the Klanghotel program . From 2014 to 2015, Dankwa was a research assistant and blogger in the university research and development project Art.School.Differences of the ZHdK, the HEM and the HEAD Genève. Since 2016 she has been working as an international project manager in public relations at the FIZ specialist office for women trafficking and migration in Zurich. Since 2017, Dankwa has also been a research assistant at the professorship for adult education u. Further education, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW.

Dankwa is a founding member of Bla * Sh - Network of Black Women and has regular appearances as a speaker, moderator or panel guest at events on racism, LGBT or queer topics.

Publications

  • Serena Owusua Dankwa: Knowing Women : Gender and Same-Sex Intimacies in Postcolonial Ghana . Cambridge University Press, 2019 (in preparation)
  • Serena Dankwa (ed. And co-author): Racial Profiling: Structural Racism and Anti-Racist Resistance (forthcoming, transcript Verlag)
  • Serena Owusua Dankwa: “It's a Silent Trade”: Female Same-Sex Intimacies in Post-Colonial Ghana . In: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research . tape 17 , no. 3 , 2009, ISSN  0803-8740 , p. 192-205 , doi : 10.1080 / 08038740903117208 .
  • Serena Owusua Dankwa MA in African Studies: 'Shameless maidens': women's agency and the Mission Project in Akuapem . In: Agenda . tape 19 , no. 63 , January 1, 2005, ISSN  1013-0950 , p. 104–116 , doi : 10.1080 / 10130950.2005.9674576 ( tandfonline.com [accessed November 29, 2016]).
  • Dankwa, Serena Owusua: 'The one who first says I love you': same-sex love and female masculinity in postcolonial Ghana . In: Ghana Studies . tape January 14 , 2011, ISSN  1536-5514 ( africabib.org [accessed November 29, 2016]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Serena Owusua Dankwa. (PDF) Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Scientific African: Biography of Serena Owusua Dankwa. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Art.School.Differences, Team. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ bärner studizytig: Regain the rule of interpretation! Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dankwa, Serena Owusua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss gender researcher, television presenter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1975