Dr. Emma Mavodza

SNSF-Ambizione Fellow

Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS)

E-Mail
emma.mavodza@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Universität Bern
Department Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS)
Institute Middle East and Muslim Societies (MOMuG)
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
nach Vereinbarung

Academic Appointments and Fellowships

Since September 2026 – SNSF Ambizione Fellow, University of Bern, Switzerland

December 2024 to August 2026 – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland

September 2023 to present – Adjunct Researcher, URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded (H2R), University of Zurich, Switzerland

July to December 2024 – Junior Fellow, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Switzerland

September 2023 to June 2024 – Early Career Fellow, Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

July 2022 to June 2023 – ZUKOnnect Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany

2020 – Erasmus+ Global Mobility Scholarship, University of Agder, Norway

Education

2023 – PhD in Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

2016 – MA in Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

2014 – BSSc Honours in Development Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa

2009 – BSSc in Sociology, Anthropology and Rural Development, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe

Assisted reproductive technologies and reproductive justice; Gender, race and inequality; Reproduction and kinship; Digital money and financial inclusion; Gender and social inequality; Technology and social change in Southern Africa

Navigating the Unexpected: In Vitro Fertilisation Journeys of Black Women in South Africa

SNSF Ambizione project, University of Bern