Biographie
Geb. 1987 in Paris, Frankreich.
M.A.-Studium in Internationalen Beziehungen, Sciences Po Paris (Frankreich), 2010 und MA in Geschichte, Europäisches Hochschulinstitut (Florenz, Italien), 2012.
Ph.D. in Geschichte, Europäisches Hochschulinstitut (Florenz, Italien),, 2016.
Post-Doc-Forschung am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, der Universität Wien (2017-2022, einschließlich zweier Mutterschaftsurlaube: 2018-2019 und 2022-2023). Elise-Richter-Stipendiatin seit 2022 mit dem Projekt: "A history of Kenya's female parliamentary pioneers." Mitglied der Jungen Akademie, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften seit 2022. Academic Visitor, African Studies Center, University of Oxford, Gross-Britanien, 2023. Research Affiliate, Department of History, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2024. Laufende Habilitation in Geschichte (Einreichung 2024) über die Geschichte der parlamentarischen Vertretung von Frauen in Afrika (1950-1960) Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Afrikastudien (2017-2022), am Institut für Gender Studies, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Abteilung (2021); Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst, Deutschland (2022). Weiterführung des FWF Elise Richter Projekts an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Dezember 2023-April 2026).
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Geschichte, koloniale und postkoloniale Geschichte, Frauengeschichte, afrikanische Geschichte, politische Geschichte, Dekolonisierung, Staatsformation, Biographieschreiben
Aktuelles Projekt
Eine Geschichte der afrikanischen Pionierinnen im Parlament
Publikationen
Monographien (2)
Monographien (2)
The Place of Women is in the House. African Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Postcolonial Africa (1950-1980). Habilitation Monography submitted in November 2024 to the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna.
Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years. Cambridge University Press. (2019: Hardback; 2020: Paperback)
Herausgaben (1)
Herausgaben (1)
The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins and Alternative Histories of Power. Edited volume.Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa. 2021: Hardback; 2023: Paperback
Artikel (11)
Artikel (11)
Changing the narrative and gendering Kenyan political history: Jael Mbogo's fight for parliamentary elections in the 1960s, Women's History Review, 2023.
Landscape of Colonial Detention Sites, Commissioned by Oxford University Press for the Oxford Encyclopedia of African History, 2023.
Women in Philosophy (African Feminist Philosophy), Commissioned by Oxford University Press for the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women History, 2022.
Presidential Powers in Postcolonial Africa Deserve Historical Attention, History in Africa. 1-22, 2022.
Kenyan Political Autobiographies and the Revival of a Masculine Authority, in Gender & Authority across Disciplines, Space and Times, ed. by Adele Bardazzi and Alberica Bazzoni (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), 59-83.
Wangari Maathai, in Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History, ed. by Candice Goucher (ABC-Clio), 2022.
Kenyan Political Autobiographies and the Revival of a Masculine Authority, in Gender & Authority across Disciplines, Space and Times, ed. by Adele Bardazzi and Alberica Bazzoni (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), 59-83.
Jomo Kenyatta and the Repression of the “Last” Mau Mau Leaders, 1961-65, Journal of Eastern African Studies 11 no. 3, 2017, 442-459.
Becoming Minister for Lands: Jackson Angaine and Meru politics (1961-1963), Mambo! (Journal of the French Institute of Research in Africa), 30 May 2016.
Virtues For All, State For No One?: Jomo Kenyatta's Postcolonial Political Imagination, in Arno Sonderegger (ed.) African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds: Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa (Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2015), 67-86.
Rezensionen (6)
Rezensionen (6)
Authoritarian Africa by Nic Cheeseman and Jonathan Fischer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019),Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique, 2021.
Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization, Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980 by Kara Moskowitz (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2020). Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2020.
Review of Figures de la Révolution Africaine. De Kenyatta à Sankara, by Saïd Bouamama, Afrique Contemporaine 4, 2025: 198-200.
Review of Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: the Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria, European Review of History: Revue Européenne d'Histoire 21,5, 2015: 773-776.
Review of Mama Keita ‘L’Absence’, African Studies Review 57,3, 2014: 251-252.
Review of Haroun Mahamat-Saleh, dir. Grigris. African Studies Review 57,1, 2014: 229-231.
Review of Ton van Zantvoort 'A Blooming Business', African Studies Review 56,3, 2013: 257-258.
Public Scholarship (22)
Public Scholarship (22)
“Research Starts at Home: Or Why an Ethic of Care is Necessary When Measuring Academic Success.” ÖAW Preisfrage 2024.
Selected as one of the best essays for the 2024 essay competition of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Available online: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/preisfrage/preisfrage-2024/essays
with Catheline Bosibori Nyabwengi, “Mama Ngina Kenyatta at 90: the quiet power behind Kenya’s famous political family,” The Conversation, 15 June 2023.
“Der politische Kampf von Parlamentarierinnen in Afrika,“ Der Standard – Blog der Junge Akademie, 17 May 2023.
“The Best Books on African Presidents and their History,” Discover the Best Books, www.shepherd.com, July 2021.
Book presentation “Power and the Presidency in Kenya” by the lecture series Erlesenes Erforschen organized by the Library of the University of Vienna, 5 Mai 2021.
“Wangari Maathai: Global fame, National Battles, Ambivalent Legacy,” Blog post for East Africa's Global Lives, 2020.
“#Bookclub: Power and the Presidency in Kenya,” Blog post for Democracy in Africa, 8 August.
Republished as “African Presidents Have Been Wrongly Stereotyped. What We Can Learn From Kenya,” The Conversation Africa, 18 August 2020.
“Why Kenya’s Mau Mau Gave Up their Fight,” The Conversation, 12 February 2020.
“African Presidents Have a History Too,” Cambridge Core Blog, 10 October 2019.
Tribune (“En politique, les femmes demeurent aussi craintes que courtisées”) Le Monde Afrique, 5 Novembre 2018.
“Grace Mugabe, Quand la Première Dame Oscille entre Politique et Symbolique,” Theconversation.fr, 14 December 2017.
„Die Grenzen des Patriarchats. Frauen und die Parlamentswahlen in Kenia,“ Frauen Solidarität, Nr. 142 (4/17), 2017.
“Femmes Politiques Africaines,” Theconversation.fr, 16 August 2017.
“Famille et Politique : Donald Trump Est-Il (Vraiment) le ‘Premier Président Africain des États-Unis?,” The Conversation Africa, 20 January 2017.
Republished as “Donald Trump Est-Il le Plus Africain des Présidents Américains ?,” Le Monde, 20 January 2017.
Neue Schwäche und Alte Probleme für Afrikas Parlamente,” Nord Süd Dialog, Newsletter n.41, 6, 2016.
“Mai 68, Senghor et ‘Con-Bandit’,” TheConversation.fr, 23 Mai 2016.
“Fanon est Mort. L’Avons-Nous Tué ? Achille Mbembe Explore les ‘Politiques de l’Inimitié’.” EUI Blogs, Juli 2016.
with Clarisse Juompan-Yakam. “Sciences-Po, dans la Fabrique des Elites,” JeuneAfrique, 14-27 August 2011.
“L'Expatriation Universitaire à l'Heure de la Mondialisation.” Note n°82, Fondation Jean Jaurès (Think Tank), 2011.
Interviews (8)
Interviews (8)
“Kenias Politik ohne koloniale Brille,” Die Presse, 25 February 2022.
“Kenianische Feminismen aus historischer Perspektive,” Globale Dialog – Women on air, Radio Orange, 22 December 2020.
“Power and the Presidency in Kenya,” Interview for the New Books Network with Prof. Susan Tompson. 23 September 2020.
“Wie Forschung während der Ausgangsbeschränkungen aussieht,” Schrödingerskatze, 7 June 2020.
“La forte présence des femmes dans les Parlements africains n’est pas une garantie de changement,” Le Monde Afrique, 28 November 2018.
“Frauen, Politik und Parlamentarismus im südlichen Afrika,” Welt im Ohr, Oe1 Campus, 8 June 2018.
“Dans le Top 20 en Politique,” Anne-Lise Carlo, CB News Mag (Numéro spécial Afrique “L’Avenir au Féminin,” Mai 2018, no. 67 2018 : 34-35.
“Afrique du Sud : un nouveau président pour un pays fracturé,“ Philippe Martinat, Le Parisien, 15 February 2018.