Anaïs Angelo is a French scholar currently based at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She graduated in political sciences (Sciences Po Paris), specialized in African studies (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and completed her Ph.D. in history (European University Institute, Florence).

Her research focuses on colonial and postcolonial political history as well as women's and gender history. She has written on the history of state formation and the makings of presidential powers in Africa, on postcolonial biography and autobiography writing, on the history of detention in colonial Africa as well as on African feminist philosophy. 

Fellowship & memberships

In 2022, she was awarded an Elise Richter Fellowship (and https://eliserichter.net) to conduct a three-year project exploring the struggles of the first women who campaigned for a parliamentary seat in Africa, in the 1960s-1970s, a time when politics remained an essentially male field.

Since 2022, Anaïs Angelo is a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Since 2024, she is a member of the Redaction in Chief of the Revue de l'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique.