Ana Carolina Schveitzer
@anaschveitzer.bsky.social
PhD Student | African History | Humboldt University
My research focuses on the connections between photography, labour, and German colonialism in Africa.
My research focuses on the connections between photography, labour, and German colonialism in Africa.
I am so happy to share that yesterday, I defended my dissertation.
Ambivalent Spaces: Photography and Work in German Colonial Africa (1884-1918)
African Studies/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Ambivalent Spaces: Photography and Work in German Colonial Africa (1884-1918)
African Studies/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am so happy to share that yesterday, I defended my dissertation.
Ambivalent Spaces: Photography and Work in German Colonial Africa (1884-1918)
African Studies/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Ambivalent Spaces: Photography and Work in German Colonial Africa (1884-1918)
African Studies/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Dissertation submitted.
I can't believe this has finally happened!
(and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)
I can't believe this has finally happened!
(and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)
November 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Dissertation submitted.
I can't believe this has finally happened!
(and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)
I can't believe this has finally happened!
(and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)
How was labour in Africa under colonialism framed and archived? How did photographs from the colonial past cross borders? In this short text, I address these two questions by examining my findings during research at @camhistory.bsky.social.
ghil.hypotheses.org/2332
ghil.hypotheses.org/2332
Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation
Thirty years ago, in 1993, Cambridge University Library acquired a substantial quantity of materials from the Commonwealth and Britain’s former colonial territories. This repository originally came fr...
ghil.hypotheses.org
May 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
How was labour in Africa under colonialism framed and archived? How did photographs from the colonial past cross borders? In this short text, I address these two questions by examining my findings during research at @camhistory.bsky.social.
ghil.hypotheses.org/2332
ghil.hypotheses.org/2332