Joseph Biggerstaff
PhD Researcher
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room: 2.016
Niebuhrstr. 5
53113 Bonn
Joseph is part of Team Claudia Jarzebowski
NEWS:
December 8-9, 2022: Workshop on Marxism and Dependency
History and Theory - Early Modern Colloquium Series
Workshop: "Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800"
Academic profile
I am a doctoral candidate at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), where I work as a research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) for the early modern history team. My research examines the history of gender, sexuality, dependency in early modern global history. My MA thesis used probate records to re-examine Atlantic capitalism through the lens of the plantation in Barbados during the long seventeenth century. My PhD project approaches archival sources and silences with an interdisciplinary methodological framework.
2021–2025
Ph.D. in History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2017–2021
M. A. in Global History, Free University of Berlin/Humboldt University of Berlin
2008–2011
B. A. in History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University
2021–2025
Research Assistant at Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies in Bonn, Germany
2016–2017
Lecturer in English and History at Higher Philological School in Wroclaw, Poland
2014–2017
Freelance English Instructor in Wroclaw, Poland
Sessions Organized
Jun. 2019
Workshop “Presenting work in academic English for non-native speakers of English,” Global Histories Student Conference, Free University of Berlin, May 31-June 2
Jun. 2019
Panel on Global Environmental History, Global Histories Student Conference, Free University of Berlin, May 31-June 2
Panelist
Oct. 2021
“Settler Mobility and the Global Plantation Complex, 1898-1946,” Annual Western Historical Association Conference, October 27-29
Apr. 2021
“Ecology, Knowledge, and Power in the Plantation Complex: 1624-1700,” Graduate Conference in European History, University of Vienna, April 7-9
Service
2018–2020
Editorial board member at Global Histories: A Student Journal
2018–2020
Conference organizer for Global History Student Conference
2016–2017
Extracurricular workshops at Higher Philological School in Wroclaw, Poland
2016
Examination board member for regional academic competition at the University of Lower Silesia
Book Reviews
Nov. 2019
Review of How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr, Global Histories: A Student Journal 5, issue 2: 148–152
Nov. 2019
Co-review of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin, Global Histories: A Student Journal 5, issue 2: 164–169