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2024/2025

Avatar Araujo

Prof. Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo

History | "Global Slavery: A Visual History"
© Ana Lucia Araujo
Avatar Boyer-Rossol

Dr. Klara Boyer-Rossol

African History | "History and Becoming of Human Remains and Cultural Objects"
© Klara Boyer-Rossol
Avatar Burns

Dr. Katherine Burns

History | "'Keep this Unwritten History': Mapping African American Family Histories in 'Information Wanted' Advertisements, 1880–1900"
© Katherine Burns
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Mariana Kelly da Costa Rezende

History | "The stray kids from Rio: Minors and the fight against vagrancy in Rio de Janeiro (1890–1926)"
© Mariana Kelly da Costa Rezende
Avatar Cruz Terra

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

History | "Coercion, Anti-Vagrancy Legislation and Workers in the Post-Abolition in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in Africa (1878–1933)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Eriksson

Sara Eriksson

Classical Archaeology & Anthropology | "The Average Person: Looking for Enslaved Labor at Hellenistic Kalaureia"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Fraga

Dr. Isabela Fraga

Romance Languages and Literatures | "Bound by Feeling: Personhood from Slavery to Emancipation in Brazil and Cuba"
© Isabela Fraga
Avatar González Nestares

Juan Alejandro González Nestares

Prehistory and Sciences of Antiquity | "Slaves and slavery in the socioproductive scheme of late Antique Hispania"
© Juan Alejandro González Nestares
Avatar Haeming

Dr. Anne Haeming

Postcolonial Literature & Provenance Research | "Dynarchiving. Confronting the Bias of Data"
© Gerd Metzner
Avatar Hu-De Hart

Prof. Dr. Evelyn Hu-De Hart

History & American Studies | "Degrees of Freedom and Unfreedom: Chinese Contract Laborers ('Coolies') in Cuba in the Nineteenth Century"
© Evelyn Hu-De Hart
Avatar Jha

Prof. Dr. Madhavi Jha

History | "The Ocean against the Empire: Costly yet Disposable Indian Construction Labour on the Uganda Railway"
© Madhavi Jha
Avatar Kelley

Prof. Dr. Sean Kelley

History | "The Emergence of an Atlantic Slave System in Cape Verde and São Tomé"
© Sean Kelley
Avatar Labadi

Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi

Heritage Studies | "19th Century Colonialists: Biographies, Statues, and Continued Asymmetrical Dependencies as Hierarchies of Power"
© Sophia Labadi
Avatar Silva Lins

Artur Silva Lins

History | "Strikes in Rio de Janeiro during the Fourth Republic"
© Artur Silva Lins
Avatar Mirzai

Prof. Dr. Behnaz Mirzai

History | "Cultural Identity of the Saharan and Indian Ocean Communities"
© Behnaz Mirzai
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Dr. Edilson Nunes dos Santos Junior

History | "Non-White Women in Amazonian Riverine Labor: Bonded Labor, Slavery, and Citizenship from a Global and Intersectional Perspective"
© Edilson Nunes dos Santos Junior
Avatar Onyige

Prof. Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige

Sociology | "Historical Continuities: The Legacy of Transatlantic Slave Trade in Modern-Day Human Trafficking in Lagos and Calabar"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Paradziński

Dr. Aleksander Paradziński

History | "Elite Women, their Dependents, and the Systems of Dependencies in the Late Antique Literary Sources"
© Aleksander Paradziński
Avatar Peixoto Parron

Prof. Dr. Tâmis Peixoto Parron

History | "Liberty and Power: Constitutions, Slavery, and the Origins of Our Times (c. 1780–c.1830)"
© Tâmis Peixoto Parron
Avatar Pelckmans

Prof. Dr. Lotte Pelckmans

African Studies | "Digital Archives & Contemp. Female Anti-Slavery Activism Surrounding Descent-Based Slavery in West Africa & its Diaspora"
© Lotte Pelckmans
Avatar Pfaelzer

Prof. Dr. Jean Pfaelzer

American Studies | "Voices of the Enslaved of California"
© Jean Pfaelzer
Avatar Rødland

Dr. Henriette Rødland

Archaeology | "Traces of Clay: Exploring slave status and outsider identities on the Medieval Swahili Coast"
© Tor Folgerø
Avatar Schmid

Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid

Theology | "How Kings and Slaves Became Humans: The Historical Origins of an Egalitarian Anthropology in the Ancient World"
© Konrad Schmid
Avatar Spooner

Amelia Spooner

History | "Formally Free: Regulating Work in the French Empire, 1820s–1870s"
© Amelia Spooner
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Nicholas Michael Sy

History | "Ants of the Same Color: Incremental Indigenous Constructions of Enslavement in Spain’s Transpacific West, 1565–1717"
© Nicholas Michael Sy
Avatar Tserashkova

Dr. Kseniya Tserashkova

History | "Silent Tragedy: Infanticide in Lithuania in 19th and Early 20th Centuries"
© Kseniya Tserashkova
Avatar Umukoro

Prof. Dr. Nathaniel Umukoro

African Studies | "Slavery-Induced Dependency, Food Insecurity and Human Trafficking in Africa: Lessons from Edo State, Nigeria"
© Nathaniel Umukoro
Avatar Varma

Dr. Nitin Varma

South Asian Studies | "The Making of Asymmetrical Dependencies: Servant Lives in South Asia"
Avatar Whyte

Dr. Christine Whyte

Global History | "Recaptured Childhoods: Recovering the Histories of Children Liberated from the Slave Trade, 1808–1900"
© Christine Whyte
Avatar Wood

Prof. Dr. Jamie Wood

Classics and Ancient History | "The Unnamed: Slavery and the Making of the Church in Late Antique Iberia"
© Jamie Wood

2023/2024

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Dr. James Almeida

Latin American History | "Minting Slavery, Coining Race: Human Difference, Discipline, and Labor in Colonial Potosí"
© James Almeida
Avatar Andricioaei

Dr. Cătălina Andricioaei

Social History | "The Domestic and Romani and non-Romani Wives' Denunciations in Socialist Romania (1970–1989)"
© Cătălina Andricioaei
Avatar Asihene

Kofi Asihene

African Studies | "Finding the Voice of the Disabled Black Slave: An Analysis of the Concept of Slavery through the Lens of Disability"
© Kofi Asihene
Avatar Boyer-Rossol

Dr. Klara Boyer-Rossol

African History | "History and Becoming of Human Remains and Cultural Objects"
© Klara Boyer-Rossol
Avatar Bosma

Prof. Dr. Ulbe Bosma

Social & Economic History | "Commodity Frontiers and Social Transformations (1816-1870)"
© Ulbe Bosma
Avatar Budasz

Daphné Budasz

History | "Cross-cultural Intimacy, Imperial Migration and Race in British East Africa (1895–1930)"
© Daphné Budasz
Avatar Chevaleyre

Dr. Claude Chevaleyre

History & Chinese Studies | "Dependency and Slavery in Asia and from Asian Perspectives"
© Claude Chevaleyre
Avatar Chinchilla Salcedo

Gina Maria Chinchilla Salcedo

Development Studies | "Social Dependency, Marginalized Perspectives, and Memories on the Conflict: An Approach from the Colombian Case"
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Mariana Kelly da Costa Rezende

History | "The stray kids from Rio: Minors and the fight against vagrancy in Rio de Janeiro (1890–1926)"
© Mariana Kelly da Costa Rezende
Avatar Cruz Terra

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

History | "Coercion, Anti-Vagrancy Legislation and Workers in the Post-Abolition in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in Africa (1878–1933)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Eriksson

Sara Eriksson

Classical Archaeology & Anthropology | "The Average Person: Looking for Enslaved Labor at Hellenistic Kalaureia"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Glaeser Dos Santos

Fabiano Glaeser Dos Santos

Theology | "The Catholic Church and the Abolitionist Movement"
© Fabiano Glaeser Dos Santos
Avatar Goulding

Prof. Dr. Gregory Goulding

South Asia Studies | "Indigeneity, Art, and Dependent Relations of Learning in Modern Central India"
© Gregory Goulding
Avatar Joy

Prof. Dr. Natalie Joy

History | "Native Americans and the American Antislavery Movement"
© Natalie Joy
Avatar Kemp

Dr. Ryan Kemp

Medieval History | "Critics on the Margins: Parrhesia, Admonitio, Gender, and Social Status in High Medieval Europe (c. 1000–1200)"
© Ryan Kemp
Avatar Kudachinova

Dr. Chechesh Kudachinova

Russian Imperial History | "The Sea of Siberian Slavery: Human Commodification and Empire in Early Modern Northeast Eurasia, 1600s–1800s"
Avatar Küppers

Dr. Sinja Küppers

Classical Studies | "Redefining Servitium Amoris and Dependency in Ausonius’ Love Poetry"
© Sinja Küppers
Avatar León Gabriel

Dr. Doris León Gabriel

Anthropology of the Americas | "Cultural Changes and Social Exclusion among Andean Youth in Peruvian Elite Spaces"
© Doris León Gabriel
Avatar Maya-Restrepo

Prof. Dr. Luz Adriana Maya-Restrepo

African History | "African and Afro-Caribbean Women in the Court of the Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias, 17th–18th Centuries"
© Luz Adriana Maya-Restrepo
Avatar Onyige

Prof. Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige

Sociology | "Historical Continuities: The Legacy of Transatlantic Slave Trade in Modern-Day Human Trafficking in Lagos and Calabar"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Özdemir

Özgül Özdemir

History | "Trans-Imperial histories of the Red Sea Slavery in the Age of Abolition"
Avatar Penn

Prof. Dr. Nigel Penn

History | "Rough Treatment: Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Roggeveld, Cape Colony, South Africa, c. 1750–1900"
© Nigel Penn
Avatar Pollatschek

Joel Pollatschek

Ancient History | "The Ideologies of Slavery in Ancient Greece"
© Joel Pollatschek
Avatar Ribeiro Cunha

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro Cunha

History | "Construction of the Class Suspicion and Compulsory Labor from the Terms of Well-Living (Brazil, 1870–1890)"
© Maria Fernanda Ribeiro Cunha
Avatar Rosenfield

Prof. Dr. Luis Rosenfield

Law & Philosophy | "Brazilian Eugenics: Philosophical Foundations, Intellectual Networks and Institutional Development"
© Luis Rosenfield
Avatar Saboro

Dr. Emmanuel Saboro

African Literature, Memory & Slavery Studies | "Visuality and Metaphors of Slavery in Ghana"
© Emmanuel Saboro
Avatar Santos Souza

Dr. Lucas Santos Souza

History | "Autonomy and Control in the Work of Food Couriers in the 'Pre-Apps Age' in Rio de Janeiro"
© Lucas Santos Souza
Avatar Sene

Dr. Cheikh Sene

Modern & Contemporary History | "Women and Slavery in Senegambia: When Gender and Identity Determine Social Position (15th–19th Century)"
© Cheikh Sene
Avatar Sumra

Asha Sumra

Architecture | "Itineraries of Residue: Building Culture through Mechanical Clay Tiles (1841–present)"
© Asha Sumra
Avatar Wobbe

Prof. Dr. Theresa Wobbe

Sociology | "Parasitism in Human Power Relations: Re-reading Carsen McCullers Fiction on the Topic of Black Women's Domestic Work"
© Theresa Wobbe
Avatar Zimmerman

Prof. Dr. Sarah Zimmerman

History | "Women Making Memory and History: Slaves, Citizens, and Custodians of World Heritage on Gorée Island"
© Sarah Zimmerman

2022/2023

Avatar Agbonifo

Prof. Dr. John Agbonifo

Sociology of Development | "Understanding Labour Relations between Monarchy and the Bronze Guild in Ancient Benin Empire"
Avatar Bosma

Prof. Dr. Ulbe Bosma

Social & Economic History | "Commodity Frontiers and Social Transformations (1816-1870)"
© Ulbe Bosma
Avatar Dziennik

Dr. Matthew Dziennik

History | "Soldiers, Slavery, and Dependence in West Africa"
© Matthew Dziennik
Avatar Eriksson

Sara Eriksson

Classical Archaeology & Anthropology | "The Average Person: Looking for Enslaved Labor at Hellenistic Kalaureia"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Fitzmaurice

Rosamund Fitzmaurice

Archaeology | "Indigenous Forced Labour and Dependency in Postclassic Mesoamerica"
© Rosamund Fitzmaurice
Avatar Ginés-Blasi

Dr. Mònica Ginés-Blasi

Labour History | "Trading Chinese Migrants: International Networks of Human Traffic in Treaty Port China (1830-1930s)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Glaeser Dos Santos

Fabiano Glaeser Dos Santos

Theology | "The Catholic Church and the Abolitionist Movement"
© Fabiano Glaeser Dos Santos
Avatar González

Prof. Dr. Carolina González

History & Gender Studies | "Domestic Work and Manumission by Coartación: Enslaved and Freed Women in Chile, 1770-1823"
© Carolina González
Avatar Laes

Prof. Dr. Christian Laes

Ancient History | "Children at Work in the Late Ancient and Early Mediaeval Period (ca. 400–ca. 1000)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Makhotina

Dr. Katja Makhotina

Eastern European History | "Laboratories of Conscience: Transfer of the Discourse of Conscience and its Adaptation in Early Modern Russia"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Mercan

Dr. Özden Mercan

History | "Premodern Mediterranean Forms of Unfree Labour and its Spatial Dimensions: Case Study on the Tuscon Port Livorno"
© Özden Mercan
Avatar Miller

Dr. Julie J. Miller

History | "A History of the Person in America"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Mirzai

Prof. Dr. Behnaz Mirzai

Middle Eastern History | "Narrative of the life of Mahboob: An enslaved African in Iran"
© Behnaz Mirzai
Avatar Mocanu

Cristina Mocanu

History | "Productive and Reproductive Labor of Roma Slaves in Moldavia (before 1830s)"
© Cristina Mocanu
Avatar Onyige

Prof. Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige

Sociology | "Historical Continuities: The Legacy of Transatlantic Slave Trade in Modern-Day Human Trafficking in Lagos and Calabar"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Roberts

Dr. Justin Roberts

British History | "Chattel: Slavery in the Early English Tropics, 1640-1713"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Saboro

Dr. Emmanuel Saboro

African Literature, Memory & Slavery Studies | "Visuality and Metaphors of Slavery in Ghana"
© Emmanuel Saboro
Avatar Sapede

Dr. Thiago Sapede

History | "The Muleke ('Church Slaves') in the 18th and 19th Centuries Kingdom of Kongo"
© Thiago Sapede
Avatar Taylor

Dr. Hillary Taylor

History | "Violence at Work in Early Modern Britain and its Overseas Territories"
© Hillary Taylor
Avatar Thiébaut

Dr. Rafaël Thiébaut

African History | "Unfree Labour in the Southwest Indian Ocean (17th–19th Centuries)"
Avatar Torres Trimállez

Dr. Marina Torres Trimállez

Early Modern History | "Trafficking of Girls and Catholic Missionary Networks in The South China Sea (18th–19th Centuries)"
© Marina Torres Trimállez
Avatar Varella

Claudia Varella

History | "Meanings from Below (Slave Hiring and Manumission by Purchase in Cuba)"
© Claudia Varella

2021/2022

Avatar Beresford-Jones

Dr. David Beresford-Jones

Archaeology | "Transformation of Ecological Dependency and Evolutionary Change with Focus on the Andean Region"
© David Beresford-Jones
Avatar Bezerra Ferreira

André Luís Bezerra Ferreira

Social History | "The Memories of the 'sertões': Captivity, Slavery and Freedoms of Indigenous and Mestizo People in the Amazon"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Boyer-Rossol

Dr. Klara Boyer-Rossol

African History | "Slaveries, Dependencies and Circulation of Knowledge in the 19th Century South West Indian Ocean"
© Klara Boyer-Rossol
Avatar Chiriac

Dr. Bogdan Chiriac

Central, Southeastern and Eastern European History | "Enslaved Roma's Petitions for Freedom in the Romanian Principalities"
© Bogdan Chiriac
Avatar Christopher

Dr. Emma Christopher

History | "The Legacies of Atlantic Slavery in the Pacific Cotton and Sugar Industries"
© Emma Christopher
Avatar Chuchiak IV

Dr. John F. Chuchiak IV

Latin American History | "Human Plunder: The Role of Maya Slavery in Postclassic and Early Conquest Era Yucatan, 1450-1550"
© John F. Chuchiak
Avatar Cirillo

Dr. Frank J. Cirillo

History of the United States | "The Abolitionist Civil War"
© Frank J. Cirillo
Avatar Cruz Terra

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

History | "Anti-Vagrancy, Punishment and Labour Relations in the Context of the Abolition of Slavery in the Lusophone World (1850-1910)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Degelmann

Dr. Christopher Degelmann

Ancient History | "Talk is Cheap! Gossip and the Power of the Weak in Democratic Athens"
© Christopher Degelmann
Avatar De Lucia

Dr. Lori De Lucia

History | "The Relationship between Race and Slavery in the Mediterranean"
© Lori De Lucia
Avatar Dorfner

Dr. Thomas Dorfner

Early Modern History | "Mammon for the Missions: Trade and Fundraising of the Moravian Church in the Atlantic World (1760–1815)"
© Thomas Dorfner
Avatar El Youssef

Dr. Alain El Youssef

Social History | "Between the Local and the Global: The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, 1880-1888"
© Alain El Youssef
Avatar Ennis

Ruth Ennis

History | "The Construction of 'White Slavery' as a Transnational Problematique between 1870 and 1904"
© Ruth Ennis
Avatar Ginés-Blasi

Dr. Mònica Ginés-Blasi

Labour History | "Trading Chinese Migrants: International Networks of Human Traffic in Treaty Port China (1830-1930s)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Onyige

Prof. Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige

Sociology | "Asymmetric Dependency and Agency in the Gendered Nature of Slavery in Crime and Punishment in Ogba Customary Law of Nigeria"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Pelizaeus

Prof. Dr. Ludolf Pelizaeus

Modern & Contemporary History | "A History of Human Trafficking in the Early Modern Period in the Holy Roman Empire"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Rauhut

Dr. Claudia Rauhut

Cultural Anthropology | "Materializing Slavery Within Caribbean Activism for Reparations: Transregional Perspectives from Jamaica and Cuba"
© Claudia Rauhut
Avatar Sirks

Prof. Dr. Boudewijn Sirks

Law | "Dependencies btw Persons in Italy & Gaul under the Merovingians & early Carolingians, & in Spain under the Second Visigothic Kingdom"
© Boudewijn Sirks
Avatar Vater

Anne Vater

Ancient History | "Gortynian Debt Bondage"
© Anne Vater
Avatar Yaşa

Dr. Fırat Yaşa

Ottoman History | "An Attempt at Revision: Writing about Crimean Slavery in its Own Terms and in a Comparative Perspective"
© Barbara Frommann

2020/2021

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Prof. Dr. Andrew H. Apter

History & Anthropology | "Atlantic Slavery and the Spirits of Capitalism: Exploring the Ritual Archive"
© Andrew Apter
Avatar Beresford-Jones

Dr. David Beresford-Jones

Archaeology | "Transformation of Ecological Dependency and Evolutionary Change with Focus on the Andean Region"
© David Beresford-Jones
Avatar Burnard †

Prof. Dr. Trevor Burnard †

Social History | "Jamaican Slavery during the Period of the Slave Trade"
© Trevor Burnard
Avatar Cruz Terra

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

History | "Anti-Vagrancy, Punishment and Labour Relations in the Context of the Abolition of Slavery in the Lusophone World (1850-1910)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Filioli Uranio

Dr. Fabrizio Filioli Uranio

Modern History | "Embodied Dependencies: Mediterranean Slavery as a Social and Economic Global Institution (XVI-XVIII Centuries)"
© Fabrizio Filioli Uranio
Avatar Hathaway

Prof. Dr. Jane Hathaway

Near Eastern Studies | "The Jewish Community of Ottoman Egypt in the 17th Century as Reflected in the Cairo Geniza"
© Jane Hathaway
Avatar Laske

Dr. Caroline Laske

Law | "Guardianship of Women as Asymmetrical Dependency"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Mahawatte

Dr. Royce Mahawatte

English Literature & Language | "The Colonial Biopolitics of Fashion Medias and the Nineteenth-Century Male Body 1828–1850"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar al-Mufti

Prof. Dr. Elham al-Mufti

Arabic Studies | "Slave Girls in Abbasid Period: A Socio-Literary Study"
Avatar Rauhut

Dr. Claudia Rauhut

Cultural Anthropology | "Materializing Slavery Within Caribbean Activism for Reparations: Transregional Perspectives from Jamaica and Cuba"
© Claudia Rauhut
Avatar Revilla Orías

Dr. Paola Revilla Orías

History | "Yanacona: A Crucible of Complexity. Free/Unfree Labor Relations in Charcas (XVth Century-XIXth Century)"
© Paola Revilla Orías

2019/2020

Avatar Brink

Prof. Dr. Stefan Brink

Scandinavian Studies | "Scandinavian Slavery"
© Stefan Brink
Avatar Burnard †

Prof. Dr. Trevor Burnard †

Social History | "Jamaican Slavery during the Period of the Slave Trade"
© Trevor Burnard
Avatar Cruz Terra

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

History | "Anti-Vagrancy, Punishment and Labour Relations in the Context of the Abolition of Slavery in the Lusophone World (1850-1910)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Hofmeister Pich

Prof. Dr. Roberto Hofmeister Pich

Philosophy | "The Many Faces & Complex Aspects that Made the Ideology of (Black) Slavery Possible & Shape Latin American Societies"
© Roberto Hofmeister Pich
Avatar Laske

Dr. Caroline Laske

Law | "Guardianship of Women as Asymmetrical Dependency"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Pelckmans

Prof. Dr. Lotte Pelckmans

Anthropology |"Trial and Error: Discursive Displacements and Fractal Authorship of 'Slave Testimonies' in African Courts"
© Lotte Pelckmans
Avatar Revilla Orías

Dr. Paola Revilla Orías

History | "Yanacona: A Crucible of Complexity. Free/Unfree Labor Relations in Charcas (XVth Century-XIXth Century)"
© Paola Revilla Orías
Avatar Tolino

Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino

Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | "The Role of Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire"
© Serena Tolino

Former BCDSS Researchers

Principal Investigators

Avatar Hutter

Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. theol. Manfred Hutter

Theology
Avatar Schwieger

Prof. Dr. Peter Schwieger

Tibetology

Investigators

Avatar Ebner

Prof. Dr. Martin Ebner

Catholic Theology

Research Group Leaders

Avatar De Vito

Dr. Christian Giuseppe De Vito

History | "Practices of Punishment, Labor and Empire Building in the Spanish Monarchy (16th to 19th Centuries)"
© Christian Giuseppe De Vito
Avatar Armond Dias Paes

Dr. Mariana Armond Dias Paes

Law | "An Ocean of Norms: Dependency and Property in the Lusophone South Atlantic (1780s–1880s)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Hellman

Dr. Lisa Hellman

History | "Coerced Labour in the Global Circulation of Knowledge"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Østhus

Dr. Hanne Østhus

History | "Dependency, Gender and Labour in the Household"

Postdoctoral Researchers

Avatar Bartash

Dr. Vitali Bartash

Assyriology | "Foreign Forced Labour in Early Mesopotamia"
© Vitali Bartash
Avatar Klaas

Dr. Sunčica Klaas

American Literature & Culture | "Rac[e]ing Rails: Railroads and Transport Justice in African American Literature and Culture"
© Sunčica Klaas
Avatar Köstlbauer

Dr. Josef Köstlbauer

History | "The Moravian Church and Slavery in the 18th and Early 19th Century"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Leetsch

Dr. Jennifer Leetsch

Anglophone Literatures & Cultures | "Slavery’s Global Entanglements in the Black Atlantic World and Beyond"
© Jennifer Leetsch
Avatar Müller

Dr. Viola Müller

History | "Labor Conditions in Cities of the Late-Nineteenth-Century Americas"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar van 't Westeinde

Dr. Jessica van 't Westeinde

Theology & Religious Studies | "Social Networks of Sub-Elites in Roman Britain"
© Jessica van 't Westeinde
Avatar Wijnendaele

Dr. Jeroen Wijnendaele

Ancient History | "Secular and Religious Networks in Late Antique North Africa"
© Barbara Frommann

PhD Researchers

Avatar Ade

Malik Ade

English Literature & Culture | "Kitchen Martyrs? Constructions of Household Dependencies in Nigerian Novels"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Ansar

Anas Ansar

Migration & Development Studies | "Everyday Life of Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Auziņa

Dita Auziņa

Anthropology of the Ancient Americas | "Monumentality and Networks of Dependency in the Kukra Hill Region, Caribbean Nicaragua"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar de Matos Ñgala

Juelma da Conceição Gomes de Matos Ñgala

Legal History | "The Transformation of Slavery in Angola, Dependencies and Social Categories, from the 16th to the 19th Century"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Espíndola Souza

Maysa Espíndola Souza

Legal History | "Colonial Projects: The Question of Labour in Portuguese Africa, 1880-1930"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Girr

Katja Girr

Human Geography | "Researchers Well-Being in the Neoliberal University: Challenges and Coping Strategies while Researching Migration"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Goffin

Magnus Goffin

Law | "Extrema Necessitate? Self-Sale in the Classical Roman Law"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Huckleberry

Samuel Huckleberry

Middle Eastern Studies | "The Sacral Realm: Religion, Rulership, and Slavery in Premodern Islam"
© Samuel Huckleberry
Avatar Márquez García

Ricardo Márquez García

History | "Life Fragments on 'Slavery' from the Cameroon Grasslands (1820-1950): Decolonial Approaches to Colonial Discourses"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Pokkanali

Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali

Oriental Art History | "Entangled Dependencies and Venerated Spaces: Islamic Material Culture in the Littorals of Pre-modern South India"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Rothenberg

Alexander Rothenberg

History | "Elite Slavery and Asymmetrical Dependencies"
© Gregor Hübl / Universität Bonn
Avatar Venters

Laurie Venters

Ancient History | "Jeopardy Chanced: The Sexual Agency of Female Slaves in Ancient Rome, with Comparisons to Han China"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Zeidler

Patrick Zeidler

Classical Archaeology | "Slavery and Social Inequality in Etruria: A Study on the Iconography of Dependency in Etruscan Visual Art"
© Barbara Frommann