Brigitte Reinwald
Since 2015: Deputy chair of the Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies (CAGS), Leibniz University of Hanover
Since 2013: Member of the Scientific Commission of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Since 2009: Full Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Since 2004: Chair in African History, University of Hanover
December 2003: Post-Doctoral Lecturing Qualification, Lecturer for African History, University of Vienna, Austria
1998 - 2004: Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin, Germany
1996 - 1997: Self-employed Scientific Journalist
1994 - 1995: Editorial Associate and Academic Advisor, ARTE (Franco-German TV-Channel), Baden-Baden, Germany
1994 - 2002: Teaching Assignments at Universities of Hamburg, Hanover (Germany), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
June 1993 Ph D in African History, University of Hamburg, Germany
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
- Economic, Social and Cultural History of Western and Eastern Africa
- Gender, Family, and Generation in French Colonial West Africa
- Franco-African Military History, Migration and Transcultural Processes
- Translocality, Memory and Historical Culture in the Indian Ocean World
- Popular Culture and Media in Urban Milieus in West and East Africa
- Africa in the Atlantic Space
- Representations of ‘Africa’ in Ethnographical Collections, Documentary and Feature Films
Publications (selection)
Books:
2018 (ed.) Beyond Europe: The First World War in Global Perspective ( = Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3/2018). Co-Editor: Christine Hatzky.
2006 (ed.) „Afrika hierzulande“. Eine Bilder-, Text- und Beziehungsgeschichte. Wien: ECCo –Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Angewandte Afrikanistik (= Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für Kritische Afrikastudien 10).
2005 Reisen durch den Krieg. Erfahrungen und Lebensstrategien westafrikanischer Weltkriegsveteranen der französischen Kolonialarmee. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. (Travelling through the War. Experiences and Life Strategies of West African World War Veterans of the French Colonial Army). Berlin: K. Schwarz (ZMO Studien 18).
2002 (ed.) Space on the Move. Transformations of the Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Co-Editor: Jan-Georg Deutsch
2001 (ed.) African Networks, Exchange and Spatial Dynamics. Münster & Hamburg: LIT. Co-Editor: Laurence Marfaing
1995 Der Reichtum der Frauen. Leben und Arbeit der weiblichen Bevölkerung in Siin/Senegal unter dem Einfluss der französischen Kolonisation. Münster & Hamburg: LIT (Women’s Wealth. Life and Work of Women in Siin/Senegal under French Colonial Rule. (Ph D. Thesis)
Articles and Chapters:
2016 Die deutschen Kolonien in Afrika. In Heikles Erbe. Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart (eds.) Alexis von Poser & Bianca Baumann. Dresden: Sandstein, pp. 160-171 (catalogue to special exhibition, Landesmuseum Hannover, Oct. 2016-Feb. 2017).
2013 On the Challenge of De-Provincializing the University Classroom: Teaching African History from a Postcolonial Perspective. In Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (eds. Jana Gohrisch & Ellen Grünkemeier). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, pp. 365-369.
2010 Transatlantische Passagen und der Preis der Freiheit. Erfahrungen und Begegnungen westafrikanischer und afroamerikanischer Soldaten in Diensten der Alliierten. In: Atlantik. Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte in der Neuzeit (eds.) Ulrike Schmieder & Hans-Heinrich Nolte. Wien: Promedia, pp. 193-208 (Edition Weltregionen 20).
2009 Recycling the Empire’s Unknown Soldier – Contested Memories of French West African Colonial Combatants’ War Experience. In: Memory, History, and Colonialism: Engaging with Pierre Nora in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (ed.) Indra Sengupta (= Bulletin German Historical Institute London, Supplement Nr. 1), pp. 37-70.
2007 Citadins au futur ? L’insertion des anciens combattants dans l’espace urbain de Bobo-Dioulasso. In Villes d’Afrique. Explorations en histoire urbaine (sous la direction de Jean-Luc Vellut). Tervuren: Musée royale de l’Afrique centrale & Paris : Éditions L’Harmattan, pp. 179-199 (Cahiers Africains 73).
2006 “Tonight at the Empire …” – Cinema and Urbanity in Zanzibar, 1920s to 1960s. In Afrique et Histoire 5, pp. 81-109.
2004 Espace(s) en mouvement? Quelques réflexions comparatives sur des processus translocaux. In Les relations transsahariennes à l’époque contemporaine. Un espace en constante mutation (eds.) Laurence Marfaing & Steffen Wippel. Paris: Éditions Karthala & Berlin: Zentrum Moderner Orient, pp. 443-455.
1997 Changing Family Strategies as a Response to Colonial Challenge. Microanalytic Observations on Siin/Senegal 1890-1960. In The History of the Family 2, no. 2, pp. 55-69.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald (University of Hannover)
Academic Adviser:Conditions of acquisitions in colonial Cameroon
Academic Adviser: (Post)colonial acquisition histories and meanings of objects of Kurt Strümpell's Cameroon collection from the German colonial period