Dr. Michelle Liebst
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
October 2025 – December 2025
m.greenfield.liebst@gmail.com
Title of current research project: "African Interpreters in Coastal East Africa's Abolition Era, 1822–1926"
© Michelle Liebst
Academic Profile
PhD in History at University of Cambridge
MA in World History and Cultures at King's College London
BA in History at King’s College London
- 2025. "Brokering Abolition by Land and Sea: Africans in the British Consulate and Navy in Zanzibar, c. 1860–1907." In Slavery & Abolition.
- 2024. "The Sultans of Zanzibar and the Abolition of Slavery in East Africa." In Law and History Review 42 (Special Issue 1): 49–74.
- 2023. "Urban East African Slavery." In Palgrave Handbook on Global Slavery, edited by J. Schiel and D. Pargas, 497–515. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2022. With Felicitas Becker. "Routes to Emancipation in East Africa." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Slavery, Slave Trade, and the Diaspora, edited by B. Rossi and M. Klein. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2021. Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926. Religion in Transforming Africa. Oxford: James Currey.
- 2017. "Sin, Slave Status, and the 'City': Zanzibar, 1865–c. 1930." In African Studies Review 60(2): 139–160.
- 2014. "African Workers and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900." In Journal of Eastern African Studies 8(3): 366–381.