Prof. Dr. Maisha M. Auma

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Prof. Dr. Maisha M. Auma (previously published as Maisha M. Eggers) is a Black German scholar of education, gender studies, and Black feminist theory. Born in 1973 in Kisumu, Kenya, she was appointed in 2008 as Professor of Childhood and Difference / Diversity Studies (Kindheit und Differenz) at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal. Her research spans intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, critical whiteness studies, decoloniality, and diversity and anti-discrimination in education — including work on plurality and representation in East and West German textbooks and on empowerment for Black communities and communities of colour.

Auma has held a series of guest and visiting professorships at leading German institutions. She was a visiting professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2014–2019) and at the Technical University of Berlin’s Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Research (2020–2021). In 2021 she was appointed the inaugural holder of the Audre Lorde Guest Professorship for Intersectional Diversity Studies within the Berlin University Alliance, and she has more recently taught as a guest professor at the University of Klagenfurt (2024).

Alongside her academic work, Auma has been a long-standing figure in Black feminist and community organising in Germany. She has been active since 1993 in ADEFRA (Generation ADEFRA / Black Women in Germany), the Black queer-feminist network, and is a recognised public voice on anti-racism, intersectionality, and diversity in German scholarship and activism.