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Ana Carolina Schveitzer

@anaschveitzer.bsky.social

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PhD Student | African History | Humboldt University My research focuses on the connections between photography, labour, and German colonialism in Africa.

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Ana Carolina Schveitzer @anaschveitzer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I am pleased to share that I have joined the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) as a visiting lecturer. I will be teaching Contemporary Fashion History and African Art. I am happy to continue developing my work at the intersection of history, image, and Africa, now in dialogue with fashion.

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Ana Carolina Schveitzer @anaschveitzer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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

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Ana Carolina Schveitzer @anaschveitzer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Dissertation submitted. I can't believe this has finally happened! (and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)

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Ana Carolina Schveitzer @anaschveitzer.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

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

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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...

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