Dr. Claudia Berger

since May 2021
Research assistant in the project "Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800-1945). A digitisation project on the Gotha Perthes Collection (KarAfAs)" at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection in Gotha

2020
Doctorate in the field of non-European history, University of Duisburg-Essen, with the thesis:
"Die 'Zwischenzeit' der Kapkolonie 1902-1910. Taktisches Handeln und politische Imaginationen im Transformationszeitraum" (first reviewer Professor Christoph Marx)

2019
Scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in London

2016 – 2021
Research assistant at the DFG Research Training Group (DFG) 1919: "Vorsorge, Voraussicht, Vorhersage. Kontingenzbewältigung durch Zukunftshandeln"

2015 – 2016
Research assistant at the Chair of Non-European History, University of Duisburg-Essen

2014
Magister Artium, University of Duisburg-Essen

Studied Modern and Contemporary History and English Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen

European Entanglements in Abyssinia: Collecting, Knowledge Production and Violence in the 1860s

Based on three different but closely linked European expeditions to Abyssinia, the project analyses the encounter between the groups of actors involved, the trans-European networks associated with them and their practices of collecting artefacts, knowledge production and (scientific) management and communication. The use of violence in its various manifestations will also be a central point of analysis.

• History of (De)Colonisation
• History of European Imperialism, especially British Imperialism
• Gender History
• Media History
• History of Social Practices
• History of Southern Africa

Die ›Zwischenzeit‹ der Kapkolonie 1902–1910. Taktisches Handeln und politische Imaginationen im Transformationszeitraum, Berlin/Boston 2023.

Perthes and Heinrich Barth. Inter-European Networks At Play - Part I, in: Mapping Africa and Asia, 08.03.2022. open acces
Perthes and Heinrich Barth. Publishing (as) a German Success Story - Part II, in: Mapping Africa and Asia, 08.08.2022. open access

Black Peril, White Peril? Challenging Racialised Gender Hierarchies in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa, in: Uchendu, Egodi/ Edeagu, Ngozi (eds.), Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa. Discourses, Practices and Policies, London 2021, pp. 9-23.

Verwundete Städte, zerstörte Nachbarschaften. Der Group Areas Act in Südafrika, in: de Boer, Jan-Hendryk (ed.), Praxisformen. Zur kulturellen Logik von Zukunftshandeln, Frankfurt 2019 (Contingency Stories 6), pp. 274-280.

"Huff, Puff and Fudge." Unter dem Schutzmantel des Spektakels in den Waffenstillstand, in: de Boer, Jan-Hendryk (ed.), Praxisformen. Zur kulturellen Logik von Zukunftshandeln, Frankfurt 2019 (Kontingenzgeschichten 6), pp. 321-328.

Die Proklamation von 1858 und Südafrika. Ein Versprechen wandert, in: de Boer, Jan-Hendryk (ed.), Praxisformen. Zur kulturellen Logik von Zukunftshandeln, Frankfurt 2019 (Kontingenzgeschichten 6), pp. 366-375.

"The Commission as an Administrative Instrument in South African Colonial Society in the Early 20th Century", 29 May 2019, Cambridge Settler Colonial History Workshop, University of Cambridge.

"'All the rights which chiefs have' – the Testimony of Traditional Authorities Before the South African Native Affairs Commission, 1903-1905.", 13.09.2018, ASAUK 2018, Birmingham.

Summer semester 2021
Exercise: "Die Konstruktion weißer Weiblichkeit im britischen Imperialismus" (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Summer semester 2016
Proseminar: "Staatenbildung zwischen Utopie und Pragmatismus: Vom South African War zur Union of South Africa 1899–1910" (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Winter semester 2015/2016
Exercise: "'lousy factory girls' oder respektable Frauen? Die Garment Workers’ Union im Visier des afrikaanssprachigen Nationalismus" (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Member of the Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung e.V.

Member of the editorial team at WerkstattGeschichte