Olisa Muojama  joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

German Subjects and Properties in Colonial West Africa during World War II, 1939-1945

Martin Puchner has worked on such disparate topics as modernist closet dramas, revolutionary manifestos, Platonic dialogues, a history of world literature, environmental storytelling and Rotwelsch, the secret language of Central Europe. Having studied at the universities of Constance and Bologna, he pursued these topics at Columbia and Harvard, with shorter stints at Cornell, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, the New York Public Library and the American Academy. He occasionally attempts to bring the humanities to the attention of a larger public with op-eds, book reviews, essays, anthologies and open online courses.   Martin joined global dis:connect funded by the humboldt/siemens foundation.  

Culture: the story of us, from cave art to K-pop

Heidi Tworek is a is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) and associate professor, jointly appointed at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History at the University of British Columbia. Heidi received her BA (Hons) in modern and medieval languages with a double first from Cambridge University and earned her PhD in history from Harvard University. She is an award-winning researcher of media, communications, health, platform governance and international organisations.   Heidi joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

Global History of Health Communications

Fabienne Liptay is a professor of film studies at the University of Zurich. In her current research, she is particularly interested in moving-image practises that critically engage with the exclusions and inclusions in the institutional frames of global arts and media. Her research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines how formats have contributed to the establishment of global infrastructures of film exhibition, and it addresses what they have disabled and displaced.   Fabienne joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format

Sebestian Kroupa is a historian of early modern natural sciences and medicine in global contexts. He is a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Sebestian’s research seeks to uncover the variety of agencies across cultures, genders and social status involved in the making of knowledge amid the early modern expansion of global interactions, which engendered the birth of medicine, science and the modern world. He has published on indigenous tattooing in the Philippines, long-distance networks of knowledge exchange, Renaissance geography and gorillas, and on science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds.   Sebestian joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

Plants on the Move: The Making of Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Southeast Asia, c.1650-1750

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. David was born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. Before moving to Harvard in 2004, he taught for 11 years at Columbia University. A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea and the United States.   David joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

Project

Nathan MacDonald was a short-term fellow in global history at global dis:connect. Nathan is professor of the interpretation of the Old Testament at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College.   Nathan joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  

Project

Bernhard joined global dis:connect as an ERC Marie Curie fellow.

European Mercenaries in the Dutch Empire. A connected History of Imperial Europe and Colonial Indonesia, c. 1800-1900

Mikko Toivanen joined global dis:connect funded by the Osk. Huttunen Foundation.

Staging a Colonial Capital: The Construction of Public Space in Singapore and Batavia through Spectacle and Ceremony, 1845-1870

The project examines the development of urban culture and ceremonial use of public space in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century, while seeking to address contemporary debates about imperial legacies in postcolonial urban landscapes.