Department of Contemporary History

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Education and Work Experience

• Since 4/2019 Assistant Professor in Global History at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
• 4/2019 Guest lecturer, University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana
• 2018-2019 Post-doc research fellow, socialism goes global, University of Exeter
• 2017-2018 EEGA Leibniz Science Campus Guest researcher, University of Leipzig
• 2018 PhD in History, University of Vienna
• 2015-2019 Lecturer in African Studies and Development Studies, University of Vienna (with interruptions)
• 2014-2017 Pre-doc researcher in the project “Personal cooperation in development aid and socialist aid in the context of system competition”, Department of social and Economic History, University of Vienna
• 2014 Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and social Anthropology, University of Vienna
• 2013 Diploma (equivalent to MA) in Development Studies, University of Vienna
• 2011-2012 Term abroad, University of Dar es Salaam

  Fields of Research and Teaching

• Global history
• East-South relations during the Cold War
• Decolonisation and liberation movements
• socialisms and solidarities
• History of development
• African mobility during the Cold War

 Professional Services

• Co-editor of historia.scribere
• Austrian Journal of Development Studies (JEP) (editorial committee)
• Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies (editorial committee)
• European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
• Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik
• Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC)
• Vereinigung Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker (VDH)
• African Studies Association Germany (VAD)
• Book reviews / peer reviews for H-Diplo, Third World Quarterly, International History Review, H-Soz-Kult, H-socialism, Austrian Journal of Development Studies (JEP), Vienna Journal of African Studies 

Awards and Prizes

• Nominated by University of Innsbruck for teaching award Ars Docendi – Austrian State Prize, for the course Postcolonial Innsbruck (together with Konrad Kuhn)
• Shortlisted for LehrePlus! teaching award for the course Postcolonial Innsbruck (together with Konrad Kuhn)
• Walter Markov Prize 2020 – PhD dissertation prize awarded by European Network in Universal and Global History
• Research fellowship Eastern Europe – Global Area (EEGA) Leibniz Science Campus guest researcher, University of Leipzig, 2017-2018
• Dissertation writing grant, University of Vienna, 2017      
• Merit grant, University of Vienna, 2012/13
• Research grant for field work in Tanzania, University of Vienna, 2012
• Merit grant, University of Vienna, 2011 

Memberships

• European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
• Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik
• Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC)
• Vereinigung Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker (VDH)
• African Studies Association Germany (VAD) 

Selected Publications

• Collective Colonialism for European Integration. The Rise of the Paneuropean Movement in Post-imperial Austria. In: Bernhard Schär and Mikko Toivanen (eds.), Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 (London: Bloomsbury). Together with Lucile Dreidemy, forthcoming January
• Frontline Citizens: Liberation Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and the Making of Anti-Imperialist Citizenship in Tanzania. In: International Review of social History 69, no. S32 (2024), 197-224.
• From Convergence to Divergence. Mozambique’s Failed Campaign to Join Comecon and the Collapse of East-South Solidarity, ca. 1977–1985. In: Cold War History (2023, FirstView).
• Innsbruck postkolonial: Eine Stadt mitten in den Bergen – verstrickt in globale koloniale Verhältnisse? (WebApp, edited together with Konrad Kuhn in cooperation with Stadt Innsbruck), 2023.
• Development. Together with James Mark and Steffi Marung. In: James Mark and Paul Betts (coords.): socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 75–114.
• In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus. Tansania und die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der beiden deutschen Staaten, 1961-1990 (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2021).
• Sozialistische Globalisierung. Die Tagebücher der DDR-Freundschaftsbrigaden in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Together with Immanuel Harisch. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 17, no. 3 (2020): 578-591.
• Navigating socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Co-edited with Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch and Marcia Schenck (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2021).
• Decolonization, the Cold War and Africans’ Routes to Overseas Education, 1957-1965. In: Journal of Global History 15, no. 1 (2020): 169-191.
• Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and Eastern Connections in Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam. In: Lena Dallywater, Helder A. Fonseca and Chris Saunders (eds.), Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War “East”: Transnational Activism 1960-1990 (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019).

Projects

• Hubs of Decolonisation. Anti-imperial infrastructures, visions and mobilities in Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam, 1956-1966 (current project), Universität Innsbruck
• Postcolonial Innsbruck
• Bars, curtains and pipelines: Conjunctures of African mobility towards and beyond Eastern Europe during the Cold War, SFB 1199/EEGA, Universität Leipzig
  

 

Research documentation

Detailed list of publications