Biography
Born in 1987 in Aachen (Germany).
Bachelor’s studies in European Cultures with a focus on history in Luxembourg and Clermont-Ferrand; Erasmus Mundus Master’s studies in Global Studies with a focus on Global History in Vienna, Santa Barbara, and Leipzig. 2021 PhD in Global History in Leipzig with a thesis on the history of archaeology in Egypt. 2013–2022 researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, in the field of history of geography. Teaching assignments at the University of Leipzig in Global Studies and history. 2023–2024 lecturer in German language and culture at the Université Paris 8. Since 2024 staff member at the Institute of Culture Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF).
Research focus
- History of archaeology
- History of geography, especially geographical societies
- History of imperialism and colonialism
Monograph
Deutsche Archäologen und ägyptische Arbeiter. Historischer Kontext, personelle Bedingungen und soziale Implikationen von Ausgrabungen in Ägypten, 1898–1914, Bielefeld: transcript 2023, 472 pp., 59 figures.
Articles
Das alte Ägypten besitzen… Ägyptologie und Kolonialismus seit 1798, in: R.W. Kory et al. (eds.), Der Kolonialgedanke als Manipulator archäologischer Ratio? Beiträge zweier Workshops an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hagen/Westf.: curach bhán 2022, pp. 37–56.
Egyptian Workers in German-Led Excavations in Egypt, 1898–1914, in: A. Bednarski et al. (eds.), A History of World Egyptology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020, pp. 244–252.
Hinter den Kulissen. Ägyptische Arbeiter bei Ausgrabungen deutscher Archäologen in Ägypten, 1898–1914 … und heute, in: A. Ashmawy et al. (eds.), Heliopolis – Kultzentrum unter Kairo, Heidelberg: Propylaeum 2020, pp. 93–110.
(with U. Wardenga), “Our Field Is the World”: Geographical Societies in International Comparison, 1821–1914, in: B. Schelhaas et al. (eds.), Decolonising and Internationalising Geography: Essays in the History of Contested Science, Cham, CH: Springer 2020, pp. 67–79.
The Living Surrounding the Dead: European Archaeologists in Egypt and Their Relations with the Local Inhabitants, 1798–1898, in: H. Navratilova et al. (eds.), Towards a History of Egyptology: Proceedings of the Egyptological Section of the 8th ESHS [European Society for the History of Science] Conference in London, 2018, Münster: Zaphon 2019, pp. 91–124.
Antiquity Bound to Modernity: The Significance of Egyptian Workers in Modern Archaeology in Egypt, in: G. Miniaci et al. (eds.), The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt: Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers, 2000–1550 BC, Leiden: Sidestone 2018, pp. 49–66.
Egyptology as an Area Study: The Case of German and French Egyptologists, 1880s–1914, in: K. Naumann et al. (eds.), In Search of Other Worlds: Essays Towards a Cross-Regional History of Area Studies, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2018, pp. 253–287.
La recherche commune d’une civilisation ancienne. Archéologues allemands, archéologues français et leurs ouvriers indigènes en Égypte, 1899–1914, in: Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 42, 2015, pp. 185–206.
Reviews
Review of B. Brockmeyer (2021), Geteilte Geschichte, geraubte Geschichte. Koloniale Biografien in Ostafrika (1880–1950), Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, in: Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 33/5–6, 2023, pp. 748–751.
Review of H.R. Slotten et al. (eds.) (2020), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 8: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in: Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 2021.