Jon Schubert is an urban and political anthropologist working on infrastructures, climate change, extractive industries and neo-authoritarian statecraft, mainly in Lusophone Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and an MA from the University of Basel. A lapsed historian and erstwhile commercial risk forecaster, he is the author of 'Working the System. A Political Ethnography of the New Angola' (Cornell University Press, Sep. 2017) and a research professor in the Urban Studies division at the University of Basel
Experience
2022–present
SNF Eccellenza Professor, University of Basel
2021–2022
Senior lecturer, University of Konstanz
2018–2021
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Brunel University London
2017–2018
Senior research fellow, Université de Genève
2015–2017
Senior Research Fellow, Changing Stateness in Africa, University of Leipzig
2010–2015
Senior Africa Analyst, IHS Country Risk
2008–2009
Programme Assistant, peace policy, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne