Prof. Dr. Steve William Tonah

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEmpirical Social Research,African, American and Oceania Studies
KeywordsChieftaincy, Konfliktforschung, Ethnizität, Migration, Pastoralismus

Current contact address

CountryGhana
CityAccra
InstitutionUniversity of Ghana
InstituteDepartment of Sociology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gabriele RosenthalMethodenzentrum Sozialwissenschaften(MZS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Tonah is well known internationally for his outstanding social research in the field of chieftaincy, migration, ethnicity and collective conflicts. While being firmly anchored in sociology, his research always has an interdisciplinary dimension with a multi-method approach. During his stay in Germany he intends to do further research on illegalized migration and plans a contrastive comparison with the studies of his German collaborators in this field.