2021/2022 First Term

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Jakob Zollmann

Jakob Zollmann read history, philosophy, and law in Berlin, Paris, and San Francisco. He has taught at the University of Namibia where he also undertook research and at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He was a visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris and is researcher at the Center for Global Constitutionalism of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research focuses on the history of international law and on the legal and social history of colonial Africa.

Martin Doll

After studying ›Drama, Theatre, Media‹ in Gießen, Martin Doll earned his Ph.D. in Media Studies in Frankfurt/M. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the ICI Berlin, he was an Assistant Professor in the research project ›Aesthetical Figurations of the Political‹ in Luxemburg. Currently, he is Junior Professor for Media and Cultural Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. He has published articles and book chapters on audiovisual historiography, politics and media, architecture as a medium, utopias and media.

Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo

Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, School of Arts, College of Humanities at the University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. and an MPhil. in Archaeology. Her research foci include museology, heritage management and preservation, gender issues in archeology, and ethnography. Her current research focus is on issues associated with museums and restitution of cultural materials in Ghana.

Kokou Azamede

Kokou Azamede is associate professor in the Department of German Studies of the University of Lomé. He was postdoctoral research fellow of DAAD (2010 & 2014 in Bremen), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2012-2013). His research interests are Postcolonial Cultural Theories (inter- and transcultural studies); German Colonialism, German Christian Missions, German colonial photography in West Africa. He created the website http://kolonialfotografie.com/ for pedagogical introduction to the use of colonial images from Togo.

Stefanie Michels

Stefanie Michels teaches at the Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Duesseldorf. She studied in Cologne and London and worked at the Universities of Cologne, Hannover, Frankfurt, Vienna, Heidelberg and Hamburg. Her research focusses on German colonial history, the global history of photography, regional history and imperial history, and African cultural goods in German museums.

John Nott

John Nott is an economic and medical historian who is at MIASA completing a monograph on the history of food and health in Ghana since the late nineteenth century. Until recently he was employed as a post-doctoral researcher on Maastricht University's ERC-funded project, 'Making clinical sense: a comparative study of how doctors learn in digital times.' Prior to this, John completed an ESRC-funded PhD in the School of History at the University of Leeds.

Jakob Zollmann

Jakob Zollmann read history, philosophy, and law in Berlin, Paris, and San Francisco. He has taught at the University of Namibia where he also undertook research and at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He was a visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris and is researcher at the Center for Global Constitutionalism of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research focuses on the history of international law and on the legal and social history of colonial Africa.

Martin Doll

After studying ›Drama, Theatre, Media‹ in Gießen, Martin Doll earned his Ph.D. in Media Studies in Frankfurt/M. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the ICI Berlin, he was an Assistant Professor in the research project ›Aesthetical Figurations of the Political‹ in Luxemburg. Currently, he is Junior Professor for Media and Cultural Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. He has published articles and book chapters on audiovisual historiography, politics and media, architecture as a medium, utopias and media.

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