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Ann-Sophie Schoepfel
Ann-Sophie’s intellectual background covers history, art history, anthropology, international relations, international law and legal history along with stops in Paris, Heidelberg, Tokyo, Hanoi and Harvard. Her research on the colonialist implications of war-crimes trials in Asia as well as on Vietnamese migration in the context of the Cold War has earned her numerous awards and academic honors.
After the French Empire. The invisible history of decolonization, de-imperialization and de-cold war
Ann-Sophie’s research at global dis:connect centred Afro-Asian voices — jurists, writers, and anticolonial revolutionaries — from across the French former colonial empire, as they struggled to reimagine state sovereignty and international law in the Cold War crucible.
Find out more about the workshop Ann-Sophie organized during her fellowship.
18 February 2025
Änne’s work focuses on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly on aspects of gender, mainly masculinities. Other areas of interest are period rooms, magazines, photography, video installations and the art of the Weimar Republik, specifically the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Christina’s research on cross-cultural diplomacy in West Africa, (dis)entanglement, translation, narratives of misunderstanding, and the history of religion has exposed her to the distinct academic cultures in Münster, Bielefeld, Berlin, London, Princeton, and her current academic home in Tubingen. Her work in global history is informed by a strong interest in theory and historical methodology, with a particular focus on the inescapable concepts of time and temporality.
Callie studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
Philipp is a professor of prehistoric archaeology focussing on the Eastern Mediterranean at the LMU Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has received an ERC Starting Grant (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) and is a PI of collaborative research projects on the Bronze and early Iron Ages from Central Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. His research focuses on transculturality, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health.
Benjamin is the Bridgman Professor of History at the University of Washington. His work sits at the crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science. He focuses chiefly on Europe’s engagement with the world in the first age of globalism. His books include Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, winner of the RSA Gordan Prize, and Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World, finalist for the Kenshur Prize. His most recent book, The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with T. Weststeijn), is forthcoming this year.
Ben joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Silke is an Associate Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) where she teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social history. Her research focuses on memory cultures and hidden histories (including gender history). Other research interests are: critical arctic studies, heritage cultures, micro-historical approaches, and anti-/decolonial perspectives. Before coming to Greenland in 2018 Silke worked at the University of Karlstad, Sweden and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland (based in the Shetland Islands).
Silke joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Jie-Hyun holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He has published on nationalism, Marxism, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is a principal investigator of the Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) research project and edits the Entangled Memories in the Global South series among others. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (2024), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (2024) and Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (2022).
Jie-Hyun joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Elisabeth is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also chief editor of the Journal of Global History.
Elisabeth joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Catherine is an adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. Her research focuses on the intersection of the history of education and other fields such as youth culture, health and religion in 20th-century Canada. She most recently authored Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools (Between the Lines, 2019) and co-edited Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press, 2022). In 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Catherine joined global dis:connect funded by the