Team > Sophia Ertlmaier, M.A.

Sophia Ertlmaier, M.A.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Scientific career

since 2023: PhD at the University of Bayreuth in cooperation with the University of Lagos; project “Education - Work - Having Children: Family Planning of Middle Class Women in Lagos, Nigeria”
2017-2020: master’s program Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth; master research and thesis “Education - Work - Having Children: Family Planning of Nurses in Accra, Ghana”
2013-2017: bachelor’s program Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; bachelor research and thesis “Mode als Ausdruck aktueller Prozesse der Identitätsfindung in Windhoek, Namibia“”

Research interests

reproduction, fertility, family planning, contraception, motherhood/parenthood, care, education, middle classes/classness in Africa

Region

Sophia Ertlmaier, M.A.
PhD student

University of Bayreuth: sophia.ertlmaier@uni-bayreuth.de
University of Lagos: sertlmaier@iads.unilag.edu.ng