Dr. Mercy Mashingaidze

Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room 0.205
Heussallee 18–24
D-53113 Bonn
mmashingaidze@uni-bonn.de

Mercy Mashingaidze
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Academic Profile

I am a historian and former Archivist with vast experience in conducting interdisciplinary research on various sociocultural issues. My current research focuses on the methodological challenges associated with researching modern slavery. I am also interested in migration research and I have previously researched on the lived experiences of asylum seekers in protracted limbo situations, in the United Kingdom and in Slovenia.

Since October 2020, I teach social science research methods and theories in the BCDSS MA "Dependency and Slavery Studies" program. I have also previously taught courses on modern slavery as well as on the enduring legacies of slavery and slavery-like systems.

2015–2020
Ph.D. in Development Studies Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn

Thesis: "'Pooling resources, scattering the family': transnational realities of Zimbabwean post-2000 migrants in the United Kingdom."

2011–2013
European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations, University of Oldenburg

Thesis: "Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in Slovenia: Enhancing Resilience Through Psychosocial Support and Social Capital."

2000–2003
B.A. (Honours) in History and Development Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

Thesis: "Gender and Divorce: An insight into women’s matrimonial property rights in Zimbabwe."

Since October 2020, I have taught in the following modules within the MA Dependency and Slavery Studies program:

  • Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency: Methodological Approaches (Social Sciences)
  • Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency: Theoretical Approaches (Social Sciences)
  • Doing Research 1 (Social Sciences)

I also taught the following module in the Uni Bonn Überfachliche Praxisbereich program (SoSe 2022):

  • The enduring legacy of slavery and slavery-like systems in contemporary societies

since 2021
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn

2020–2021
Guest Lecturer, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn

2019–2020
Research Assistant ProciNut Project, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

2015–2020
Junior Researcher (PhD Candidate), Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

2015–2019
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for doctoral studies and field research

2015
The Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) start-up fellowship

2011–2013
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to study towards the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

2007
Andrew Mellon Foundation Scholarship to participate in the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) Short Course on Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections (hosted by the National Archives of Brazil)

2005
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) travel grant to represent the National Archives of Zimbabwe at the IASA annual conference in Barcelona, Spain

2003
Midlands State University Book Prize

11/2018
Presentation at the PhD Conference on International Development, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Presentation title: "'Doing family' in a transnational social space: experiences of Zimbabwean migrants in the United Kingdom."

11/2017
Keynote Speaker at the Seminar of the Zimbabwe Netzwerk e.V., Bonn

Presentation title: "Migration and family life: experiences of Zimbabweans in the UK."

12/2017

Guest presenter, class seminar under the MA course on Globalization, Socio-economic, and Cultural Change: Aspirations and Strategies of the Youth in the Global South, University of Bonn, Germany

Presentation title: "The post-2000 'crisis-driven' migration of Zimbabweans to the United Kingdom: Networks, strategies, and experiences of the youth."

10/2017
Panel presentation at the Migration With(out) Boundaries Conference, Michigan State University, United States of America

Individual paper title: "Networks and Opportunity: the post-2000 migration of Zimbabweans to the United Kingdom"

2009–2011
Diploma in Personnel Management, Institute of People Management of Zimbabwe (IPMZ)

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