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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This winter semester I’ll be taking over as interim professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Vertretungsprofessor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen) at #DIMAS, University of Regensburg. www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... Students at Regensburg, do consider taking one of my classes.

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

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Interested in plantation studies? American empire? Globalization? Liberia? I wrote a review of Gregg Mitman‘s book „Empire of Rubber.“ academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Yes, we collected various memories from and impressions of that time. It was wonderful.

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

On Valetine‘s Day we held a public viewing of lost & found tv & film in and on Liberia (prewar, 70s/80s) in collaboration with Liberian filmmaker Artina Michelle. We were joined by some former anchors, current members of the movie union, school teachers, and many students. #Watchshowlib2025

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

L. Schulte Nordholt, N. Nkealah, and R. Bod have edited a special issue of History of Humanities dealing with Classics in the History of the African Humanities. My chapter: "Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895." www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GAQKB...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

New open access article: „Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa“. muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic....

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

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).

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

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

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Out soon! This was a worthwhile project. Check out my chapter on "Contestation over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa". global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Our CfP with Praticas da Historia: "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African Press, and the Uses of Historical Knowledge." Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retr...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

As a newly-appointed Africa Network Chair for the European Social Science History Conference, I'm happy to announce that the CFP for the 2025 conference is now open! Submit your proposals here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en More on the Africa network: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/africa-ne...

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

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Very excited to be joining the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of African History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Today our Gedenkschrift for Jan-Georg Deutsch titled "The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa" which I co-edited with Moritz Mihatsch and Michelle Sikes has been re-released as paperback. It is still also available as Hardcover and Open Access. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

„Digitale Geschichtswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Afrika“. guides.clio-online.de/guides/regio...

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