Prof. Dr. Morgan Robinson
Prof. Dr. Morgan Robinson
Gastprofessorin an der Professur für Globalgeschichte
Werdegang
- Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Assistenzprofessor, seit Herbst 2018
- Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktorandinnen und Postdoktoranden, Januar 2021-Juli 2022
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
PhD in Geschichte, Mai 2018
Dissertation: "An Uncommon Standard: A Social and Intellectual History of Swahili, 1864-1925”
- Princeton University
MA in Geschichte, September 2013
- Yale Universität, New Haven, CT
BA in Geschichte, Mai 2008
Forschungsschwerpunkte und Interessengebiete
- Afrikanische Geschichte
- Ostafrika
- Tansania
- Sansibar
- Sprache
- Standardisierung
- Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Bürokratie
- Wissensproduktion
Publikationen
- A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili (Ohio University Press “New African Histories” Series, November 2022)
- “When a Wonder is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge,” Isis 114, no.2 (June 2023: 233-248).
- “The Idea of the Upelekwa: Constructing a Transcontinental Community in Eastern Africa, 1888-1896,” Journal of the History of Ideas 81, no.1 (January 2020): 85-106.
- “Binding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion,” in Klaas van Walraven (ed.), The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies (Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2020).
- “La Belle Époque from Eastern Africa: An Individual Experience of the ‘Globalizing’ World, 1898-1918,”Journal of Eastern African Studies 13, no.4 (November 2019): 584-600.