Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

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Christian Jacobs is a Ph.D. fellow at the graduate school for Global Intellectual History at Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and an associate postgraduate at the Centre Marc Bloch. His current research project explores how political activists used concepts of culture in France from the 1960s to the 1980s. He has studied history in Freiburg, Martinique, Taipei, and Berlin. He held fellowships at the German Historical Institute in Paris and was a guest scholar at EHESS Paris as well as Sciences Po Paris. Previously, he has published on Maoism in France and postcolonial memory culture in Western Europe.