Main Focus
- Eastern and Central African history
- Swahili Studies
- Gender and intersectionality
- Critical Race Theory
- Labour history
- History from below
- History of emotions
- Love and intimacy
- Colonialism and racism
Project
- Urban Intimacy in Eastern and Central Africa
- Volatility and Vulnerability: Global intersectional perspectives from the 20th century to the present
Curriculum Vitae
- Visiting Professor at Humboldt University Berlin, Chair African history, winter semester 2022/23
- Research Associate in cultural history, University of Oxford, ERC project 'Comparing the Copperbelt', 2016-2017
- PhD in History, European University Institute, 2017; "Finding the right words: Languages of litigation in Shambaa native courts in Tanganyika, c.1925-1960"
- Magistra Artium in African Studies and History, Humboldt University, Berlin & Free University, Berlin (2011)
- Studies in African History at Humboldt University in Berlin, the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Professional Affiliations
Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Selected Publications
- Viewpoint: Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions. A conversation among Feminist Scholars, together with Rukmini Barua, Esra Sarioğlu & Julia Wambach. Past & Present 2024, https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtae005/7718968
- Black(ness) in German African Studies, together with Serawit Debele (forthcoming 2025 with De Gruyter)
- "Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women’s autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964". Gender and History, March 2024: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12778
- "Let's hope there are some good girls": Sugar relationships and feminine respectability in post-independence Zambia. L'Homme: Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 32(2), 21-40 (October 2021), online: “Let’s hope there are some good girls” – sugar relationships and feminine respectability in post-independence Zambia - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
- “Reimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space.” Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities, edited by Miles Larmer et al., Boydell & Brewer, 2021, pp. 347–72.
- "Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika." Journal of Eastern African Studies, (October 2020).
- "Only a misunderstanding? Non-conformist rumours and petitions in late-colonial Tanzania." Journal of Modern European History, (March 2020). doi/10.1177/1611894420910905
Reviews:
- Book review: Corinne T. Field und LaKisha Michelle Simmons (Hg.), The Global History of Black
Girlhood, Urbana/Chicago/Springfield: University of Illinois Press 2022, L'Homme 35 (1), 2024.
- Book review: Lynn Thomas, Beneath the Surface. A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners, in HSK: 15.10.2021, Rezension zu: L.M. Thomas: Beneath the Surface. A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften | Geschichte im Netz | History in the web (hsozkult.de)
- Book review: "Transnationale Biographien. Die Missionsbenediktiner von St. Ottilien in Tanganjika 1922–1965", in HSK, 05.03.2018, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-25649
- Essay on Mukuka Chipanta's debut novel "A Casualty of Power", 24.04.2017
- "Laughing Yoga in Tanzania", University of Wisconsin-Madison, African Studies program, summer stories 2015,