What is the relationship between race, gender and capitalism? The role of motherhood in racial capitalism and the scientification of the “Ghetto economy” serve as two intersecting lenses in this project that provide new perspectives on the history of capitalism since the late 1960s. (Nadja Klopprogge)

This project deals with the Intimate Histories of African Americans and Germany between 1933 and 1990. Its point of departure are interpersonal constellations that crossed not only the Atlantic but the color line, and at times the fault lines of the Cold War. (Nadja Klopprogge)

The habilitation project investigatesthe history of “indigeneity” and the political strategies based on this concept from the 1830s to the 1980s. It examines how the concept of indigeneity was used to organize the world, the interests behind such perceptions and descriptions, and the legal and political consequences resultingfrom the corresponding assumptions. (Martin Deuerlein)

This book project (Habilitation) retraces the history of the meaning, making, and presentation of ‘Africana’ across the Atlantic from the late 19^th to the early 21^st century. (Nadja Klopprogge)

In my project, I am interested in a history of knowledge and the environmental history of the search for water from a trans-imperial perspective (British and German Empire, USA). Therefore, I investigate practices and forms of knowledge of the search for water, especially in imperial expansion movements since the late 19^th century and into the age of decolonization. I focus on arid regions in Southwest Africa, East Africa and the USA. (Robert Pursche)