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Stefan Esselborn

Dr. Stefan Esselborn

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Stefan Esselborn worked at the RCC as a Research Assistant from 2009 to 2010, before becoming part of the Doctoral Program Environment and Society in 2010. In March 2016, he successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Übersetzer Afrikas. Das Internationale Afrikainstitut (IIALC/IAI) und die Praxis afrikanistischer Expertise, 1926-1976“. This dissertation, supervised by Prof. Martin H. Geyer and Prof. Helmuth Trischler, investigates transnational networks of knowledge and knowledge production in the context of (colonial) development policies in Africa. The dissertation was supported by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the German Historical Institute in London, the DAAD, the RCC, as well as the LMU.


Stefan studied Contemporary History, Political Science, and Economic and Social History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne in Paris. From July 2014 to March 2015, he held a visiting scholarship at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz. Currently, Stefan is a Research Associate in History of Technology at Technische Universität München.


Among Stefan’s main research interests are the history of colonialism and colonial knowledge production, the history of the humanities and social sciences, transnational history, the history of development, the history of technology and the history of safety/security in the 19th and 20th centuries.


Publications:

2014: “Koloniale Landschaft und industrielle Landwirtschaft. Das ‚Groundnut Scheme‘,“ in: Frank Uekötter (Hg.), Ökologische Erinnerungsorte, Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht.


2013: “Environment, Memory, and the Groundnut Scheme. Britain's Largest Colonial Agricultural Development Project and its Global Legacy”, in: Global Environment 11/2013.

 

Dissertation: Translating Africa to Modernity: The International African Institute, 1925-1975