Curriculum Vitae
Education
2010-2015
Ph.D. (Promotion) in History, Humboldt-University Berlin
Doctoral Thesis: African Elite Formation and Colonial Reforms in Belgian
Congo, 1944-1956
2016
Winner of the Übersetzungspreis der ZEIT-Stiftung, Verband der
Historiker und HistorikerInnen Deutschlands
2002-2009
Magister in European Ethnology, African Studies, and Political Science, Humboldt-University Berlin and Free University Berlin
Magister Thesis: The Relationship between Cities and Rap Music. The Case of Marseille.
Career
2017- present
Assistant Professor of African History at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
2017-2018
Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Work and Human Life Course in Global History” (re:work”)
2015-2017
Postdoctoral Fellow. International Graduate Research Program Berlin – New York – Toronto, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin.
2015
Humboldt-Postdoc-Scholarship
2014
Parental Leave
2013
Research Associate, Kultur der Metropole, HafenCity Universität Hamburg
2009-2013
Research Associate at SFB 640 “Changing Representations of Social Order”, Humboldt-University Berlin
2008-2009
DAAD-Scholarship and Project Manager, MUCEM Museum for European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille, France
2008-2008
DAAD-Scholarship, University Aix-Marseille and CNRS Marseille, France
2002
Internship and Freelance Journalist, Taz – die tageszeitung, Bremen
2000
Internship and Freelance Journalist, SPIEGELreporter, Hamburg