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Ezra Kücken

Student Assistant C08 - Security and Empire

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    Philipps-Universität Marburg

  • Vita

    Since 2024
    Student assistant in subproject C08

    Since 2023
    Student assistant at the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futures Studies, Philipps Universität Marburg

    Since 2023
    Student Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer at FB06, Philipps Universität Marburg

    Since 2022
    Student assistant at the Institute for Didactics of History and Public History in the projects "Politics of Gender" and "Learning from which disasters?", Philipps Universität Marburg

    Since 2022
    M.A. degree in History with Spanish as a minor subject, Philipps Universität Marburg

    2019-2022
    B.A. degree in History and East Asian Studies/Modern China, Georg-August-University Göttingen

    2022
    Internship in Zipaquirá, Colombia

    2018-2019
    English Teaching Certificate, teacher in Italy and Germany

    2017-2018
    Year abroad and voluntary service in Chanthaburi, Thailand

    2017
    Abitur, Eldenburg Gymnasium Lübz

  • Research interests

    History of the British Empire in East Asia
    Chinese and (South) East Asian history and politics
    Intersectional dimensions of the political, cultural, medical and legal history of empires
    Gender history and queer and trans* history in a colonial context
    Sex work and prostitution history in a colonial context (in particular the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 19th century)
    Transnational entanglements and multidirectional culture(s) of memory in the context of (post)colonialism
    Colonial discourses and negotiations of slavery and dependency relations

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