Forschungsinteressen
- Geschichte Ost- und Zentralafrikas
- Swahili-Studien
- Gender und Intersektionalität
- Rassismus in der Afrikaforschung, Critical Race Theory
- Geschichte der Arbeit
- History from below und Alltagsgeschichte
- Geschichte der Gefühle
- Liebe und Intimität
- Kolonialismus und Rassismus
Projekt
- Intimität und Urbanität in Ost- und Zentralafrika
- African Studies in Germany through the lens of Critical Race Theory (Drittmittelprojekt Volkswagen Stiftung): http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?siteLanguage=en&ref=9B633
- https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-centers/history-of-emotions/volatility-and-vulnerability
Vita
Mitgliedschaften
Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Artikel:
- "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, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv199tj8b.20.
- "Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika." Journal of Eastern African Studies, (October 2020). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17531055.2020.1832293
- "Only a misunderstanding? Non-conformist rumours and petitions in late-colonial Tanzania." Journal of Modern European History, (March 2020). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1611894420910905
Rezensionen:
- Rezension: zu 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)
- Reszension: zu "Transnationale Biographien. Die Missionsbenediktiner von St. Ottilien in Tanganjika 1922–1965", in HSK, 05.03.2018, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-25649
Essays und blogposts:
- Essay: zu Mukuka Chipantas Roman "A Casualty of Power", 24.04.2017, http://copperbelt.history.ox.ac.uk/2017/04/24/book-review-a-casualty-of-power-by-mukuka-chipanta/
- "Laughing Yoga in Tanzania", University of Wisconsin-Madison, African Studies program, summer stories 2015, https://africa.wisc.edu/summer-stories-laughing-yoga-in-tanzania/