Julia Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher (Gerda Henkel Research Project)
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room 2.007
Niebuhrstr. 5
D-53113 Bonn
jschmid2@uni-bonn.de
Part of Team Claudia Jarzebowski
NEWS:
2026–2028: The Gerda Henkel Stiftung has awarded funding for the project "Economies of Trust: A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape Colony," led by researchers Dr. Dries Lyna (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dr. Eva Marie Lehner (University of Bonn), and Dr. Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Ghent University). For more information, please visit the project website.
Academic Profile
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2021–2026
PhD in History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University, Germany [Dissertation: Antonia Forster 1758-1823. Eine Intellektuelle Biographie]
2019–2020
MA in Public Archaeology, University College London, UK [Thesis on: Development-led Archaeology and Public Benefit A case study of effectiveness]
2016–2019
BA in History and Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2018–2019
ERASMUS+ Scholarship, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
since 2026
Postdoctoral researcher with project "Economies of Trust? A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape Colony", funded by the Gerda Henkel foundation. Subproject "In God we Trust? Support Networks of Unmarried Women in Colonial Cape Town."
2021-2025
Doctoral researcher, BCDSS, Bonn University, Germany
2019
Student Assistant at the Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
2017–2018
Student Assistant at the Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
since 2026
Postdoctoral Stipent of the Gerda Henkel foundation within the project Gerda Henkel Project "Economies of Trust? A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape Colony," subproject "In God we Trust? Support Networks of Unmarried Women in Colonial Cape Town."
2019–2020
Funding by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Master abroad (Jahresstipendium für Graduierte aller wissenschaftlichen Fächer)
2018–2019
ERASMUS+ Scholarship, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
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2024 "Décultot, Elisabeth, Kittelmann, Jana, Thiele, Andrea und Uhlig, Ingo (Hrsg.): “Weltensammeln. Johann Reinhold Forster und Georg Forster“, Göttingen 2020 (das achtzehnte Jahrhundert – Supplementa; Bd. 27)." In: Georg Forster Studien XXVI, 231–236.
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2024: "Graves, Cannons, and Fog: Reflections on the 2023 Bioarchaeological Field School of the University of New Brunswick, Canada." In: Blog of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery. Open access
- 2022. With G. Moshenska, D. Daykin, et al. "Reading Kipling’s The Land Through a Lens of Archaeology, Landscape, and English Nationalism." In Public Archaeology 20(1–4): 51–62. Open access