Lamine DOUMBIA
Présentation
Dr. Lamine Doumbia is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he has held a full-time position since September 2023. His research and teaching focus on social and cultural anthropology, as well as African History, with particular emphasis on land governance, bureaucratic practices, and everyday responses to crisis in urban West Africa. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project “Where Have All the Workers Gone?”, since 2024.
Dr. Doumbia holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bayreuth (2017), where he was a doctoral fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). His dissertation, Le foncier urbain à Bamako – Processus dans l’impasse et diligence face à l’équation, examined the socio-political dynamics of urban land tenure in Bamako. He received the degree with the distinction magnacum laude. He has held several prestigious postdoctoral fellowships, including at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana (2021–2022; returning in 2025), and at the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple at the University of Bayreuth (2022–2023). From 2017 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) and the Centre de Recherche sur les Politiques Sociales (CREPOS) at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, within the framework of the program Bureaucratization of African Societies. He was also a guest researcher at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Bayreuth in late 2020.
Dr. Doumbia completed his academic training in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, earning a Master’s degree (2012), and a Bachelor’s degree (2009) with a secondary focus on African Development Geography. During the Master, he conducted ethnographical fieldwork in Addis Ababa – Ethiopia. He also holds a Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Générales (DEUG II) in Educational Sciences from the University of Bamako (2005).