About

About

This is me.

Hello, I’m Marie, a historian by training, specializing in global economic history and the history of development, as well as postcolonial business history.

The role of Africa and Asia in the context of post-colonial development policy is particularly important to me, and I have in-depth regional knowledge of Ethiopia and West Africa.

I write, research, manage and teach, and am a mother of three.

I’m a passionate advocate of structural reforms that will make academia a better working environment for everyone. I’m dedicated to promoting the visibility of women experts across diverse backgrounds and engaging in research communication through various platforms, including social media. I love thinking about the way we work and exploring innovative approaches to research management and practice.

For a complete list of my research publications, visit my profiles on google scholar or ORCID

CV

08.2025 – 08.2026

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

A. Verville Research Fellow 

04.2022 – 12.2025

Philipps Universität Marburg
Institute for History, Chair for Economic and Social History

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

03.2019 – 3.2022

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institute for History, Chair for Economic and Social History

Principal Investigator: DFG-Project “Aviation in Postcolonial Africa” | Postdoctoral Research Fellow

10.2019 – 12.2019

Université Felix-Houphouet-Boigny, Cocody Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Visiting scholar

03.2017 – 09.2018

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institute for African and Asian Studies

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow

12.2015 – 07.2016

Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University
Centre Français des études éthiopiennes, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Consultant for Tourism and Heritage | Visiting Scholar

09.2014 – 06.2015

Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Visiting doctoral student

09.2013 – 12.2017

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

PhD, Doctoral Project “UNESCO World Heritage in Ethiopia”

Final grade: Magna cum laude

10.2003 – 09.2010

Technische Universität Berlin 

Magistra Artium (M.A.): History and Sociology

Grants and Awards

2025

ANR-DFG TRIBECA: Tackling the Responsibility of International Business and Enterprises as Transnational Cause

2025

ERC Starting Grant “MAGIC: Manufacturing Modernity in Africa”

2019
open-access funding by the HU Berlin and the Gerda Henkel Foundation

2019
DFG Grant for a research project and temporary position as PI (“Eigene Stelle”)

2018
PostDoc Fellowship of the Humboldt University of Berlin

2014-2017
Doctoral scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation