Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

@cmarkthiesen.bsky.social

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Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History. “Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257

My courses at the University of Regensburg this Winter 2025:
-The United States and Africa
-Decolonization and Intellectuals
-Global History: Methods, Approaches, Sources
-Decolonization and the End of European Empires
-Tips, Tricks and Hacks: Researching and Writing a Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Lamar E. Fort delivering a „simple press“ to produce high quality palm oil in a Liberian village.

Scene from downtown Nairobi, with a bodaboda driver speeding passed a bus tagged with the term „forward“.

A shot of the back of the building in Amsterdam where the International Institute of Social History is located.

The programme for the Teaching Imperial and Global History conference for 3 May.

Cover of the Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History. It pictures a barn amid a lush green field.

Artwork by Nuno Silas.

The CFP for the ESSHC. The deadline for paper and session proposals is 15 April 2024.