Marcus Grohmann

• 2003-2007 B.A. in African Culture and Society (Social Anthropology and Development Sociology) at the University of Bayreuth and Bordeaux Segalen University
• 2008-2010 M.A. in African Culture and Society (Social Anthropology and Development Sociology) at the University of Bayreuth
• 2016-   PhD candidate with a project entitled “Reconciliation in the context of coloniality. How White people imagine and practice reconciliation in culturally diverse churches in South Africa” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner)

Reconciliation in South Africa, Rwanda, DR Congo; churches in conflict and conflict resolution; cultural linguistics; the intersection of language, worldview and theology

German, English, French, Afrikaans, Xhosa (learning of this language is part of my research project)

Grohmann, Marcus (2020). A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa. Transformation, 37 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820910452External link 

For the time of my research project I am affiliated to the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and live in Cape Town