Marcia C. Schenck, Professor of Global History

Marcia C. Schenck

Professor of Global History

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Campus Am Neuen Palais
Haus 11, 0.02

 

consulting hours
Wednesday: 1.00- 2.00 p.m.

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• February 2024: Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne  and at the Centre of Creative and Cultural Research (CCCR) st the University of Canberra
• 2022 - 2023: 12 month Junior Fellowship at the Historische Kolleg, an Institute for Advanced Study in History in Munich
• Since 01/2020: Professor of Global History at the Universität Potsdam, Germany
• 2019: Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University, USA
• 2018 - 2019: Research Associate in Global History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2017 - 2018: Postdoc at re:work, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• 2013 - 2017: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History at Princeton University, Dissertation titled: "Socialist Solidarities and Their Afterlives: Histories and Memories of Angolan and Mozambican Migrants in the German Democratic Republic, 1975-2015," USA
• 2012 - 2013: Mercator Fellow on International Affairs in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Jakarta
• 2010 - 2012: M.A. in History at Princeton University, USA
• 2009 - 2010: M.Sc. in African Studies at the University of Oxford, UK
• 2005 - 2009: B.A. in International Relations at Mount Holyoke College, USA; Certificate in African Studies, Honor’s Thesis in History

You can find more information on https://www.marciacschenck.com.

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• Global history
• African history
• History of migration, mobility and processes of refuge seeking
• Labor history
• Education history
• Oral and life history
• History of international organizations

• African Studies Association, GB
• African Studies Association, USA
• American Historical Association, USA
• Advisory Board: Dr. Jenö Staehelin Stiftung, Switzerland
• Steering Group: ROUTES an der Universität Exeter, UK
• Co-spokesperson: Working Group on World Regional and Global History (AK Weltregionale und Globale Geschichte, AKWGG), VHD, Germany
• E Council on Migration
• Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien, Deutschland
• Jury: Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding, and Respect for Differences, Germany
• Lusophone African Studies Association, USA
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Funding Programme Forced Migration
• Member of: Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
• Member of the Commission "Connecting the World: Europe, Africa, and the Americas" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Nefia: Network on International Affairs, Germany, Germany
• The German Network of Forced Migration Researchers (Netzwerk Fluchtforschung), Germany
• German National Academic Foundation(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Germany

• Distinction: YERUN (Young European Research Universities) Open Science Awards 2023
• Fellowship: Junior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study "Historischen Kolleg” in Munich (2022-23)
• Distinction: E-Learning UP Award 2021 for  „Social Online-Teaching at the University of Potsdam“ (2021)
• Distinction: Finalist of the teaching award of the state of Brandenburg  (2021)
• Distinction: Certificate of Excellence for Teaching, University of Potsdam, Germany (2020-21)
• Research fellowship: Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University, USA (2019)
• International workshop funding: “Rethinking Refuge: Processes of refuge seeking in Africa and beyond,” Forum for Transregional Studies, Berlin (2019)
• Research stipend: International Research Center ‘Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History’ (re:work), Berlin (2017-18)
• Dissertation Writing Fellowship: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, University of Princeton, USA (2016-17; research grants 2012, 2011)
• Research Grant: Luso-American Development Foundation & National Library, Portugal (2015)
• Distinction: Paper Prize of the Lusophone African Studies Organization, African Studies Association (2015)
• Distinction: American Historical Association, Winner of Graduate Student Blog contest (2015)
• Dissertation Research Grant: History Department, Princeton University, USA (2014-15)
• Fellowship: Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs, Mercator Foundation, Germany (2012-13)
• Five Year PhD Fellowship: History Department, Princeton University, USA (2010-16)
• Pre-enrolment Language Study Grant: Princeton University, USA (2010)
• Ioma Evans-Pritchard Scholarship: St. Anne’s College, African Studies Department, University of Oxford, UK (2009-10)
• Ruth C. Lawson Fellowship in International Politics: Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009-10)
• Bradwell Memorial Fellowship: Alumnae Association, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009-10)
• Distinction: Phi Beta Kappa Society, Theta Chapter, America’s oldest Academic Honor Society, USA (2009)
• Distinction: Mary Lyon Scholar, BA summa cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009)
• Distinction: Clio-Melpomene Prize for excellent honors thesis in history, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009)
• Distinction: Eugenia Warren Herbert Prize for excellence in African history, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009)
• Distinction: Student Leadership and Service Award, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009)
• Distinction: Who’s Who Among Students, Mount Holyoke College, USA (2009)