BGHS

Julia Tischler

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Phone: +49 521 106-3193

Office: S3-227

Research interests

• Regions: African history (mainly 20th century Central and Southern Africa), European History (mainly German and British)
• Themes: colonialism and decolonisation, development, human-environment relations
• Methodology and theory: global/entangled history, cultural history, historical film analysis

CV

Since 2011

Post-Doc fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology: coordination and supervision of the junior research group "KlimaWelten" (Climate Worlds) (during the time of parental leave of Dr. Heike Greschke)

January 2001

Defense of doctoral thesis in Modern History, University of Cologne

2009

Visiting doctoral student at Oxford University, St. Cross College

2007

Researcher at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

2006 - 2011

Doctoral student at Cologne University, Department of Modern History; project on the Kariba hydroelectric dam and late-colonial modernisation in today's Zambia/Zimbabwe; research conducted in Great Britain, Zambia, and Malawi

2000 - 2006

Studies in History and English at Cologne University and the University of Stirling; Erstes Staatsexamen (equivalent MA)

Academic Honours

2008 - 2010

Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk foundation for doctoral studies

2008

Erhard-Imelmann award for MA-thesis

2007 - 2008

Research grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for Zambia/Malawi

2007

Research Grant of the German Historical Institute London (GHIL)

Publications (forthcoming)

• PhD thesis "Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation. The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation" (manuscript)
• MA thesis "Afrikabilder in filmischen Dokumenten von Bayer/Leverkusen in den 1930er und 1960er Jahren" ("Images of Africa in film documents of the Bayer/Leverkusen company in the 1930s and 1960s", manuscript)
• "Negotiating development: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation", will be published in: Bloom, P., Manuh, T., Miescher, S. (Hrsg.), Revisiting Modernization in Africa, Indiana University Press (submitted)
• "Resisting modernisation? Two African responses to the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation", will be published in: Comparativ, special issue on "Entangled Histories: Reflecting on Concepts of Coloniality and Postcoloniality" (submitted)