Profile
Abstract
Ana Moledo is a PhD student in the project A07 ‘“Free radicals”? Political mobilities and postcolonial re-spatialization processes in the second half of the 20th century’ within the SFB 1199 at Leipzig University. Her research interests lie in the field of global and transnational history, particularly with regard to colonialism and decolonization, transnational activism and radical politics and the Cold War in Southern Africa. She earned a joint MA degree in global studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland) and Leipzig University (Germany) and was the recipient of the Pre-Doc Award at Leipzig University in 2017.
Professional career
- since 09/2018
PhD student, Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Leipzig University - 06/2017 - 06/2018
Pre-Doc Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 1199, Leipzig University - 04/2016 - 06/2017
Student Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre 1199, Leipzig University - 01/2013 - 12/2013
Postgraduate Training in Planning and Management of Development Cooperation (UNED/OEI, Spain) - 06/2011 - 01/2014
Communications Officer and Project Assistant at the International Institute for the Development of Citizenship (Brazil)
Education
- 10/2014 - 08/2016
Master of Arts in Global Studies (University of Wrocław, Poland and Leipzig University) - 09/2006 - 06/2010
Studies in Journalism and Political Science at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Tampere (Finland) and Ramón Lull (Barcelona, Spain)
In my dissertation I study the solidarity entanglements created by transnational anticolonial activists and members of liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies in the 1960s and early 1970s. Based on multi-sited archival research and oral histories, this reconstruction of support networks in Europe and across the Atlantic enables a detailed conceptualization of the politically driven mobilities of anticolonial and socialist actors in a period in which processes of decolonization and Cold war tensions brought about intense spatial and political reshuffling.
- SFB 1199/A07: “Free Radicals”? Political Mobilities and Post-Colonial Processes of Respatialization in the Second Half of the 20th CenturyMarung, SteffiDuration: 01/2020 – 12/2023Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe); Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
- Central Project of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition”Middell, MatthiasDuration: 01/2016 – 12/2019Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Centre for Area Studies; Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
- Moledo Pouso, A. M.The Struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing Imaginaries Around the Unliberated RegionIn: Lopes, R.; Telepneva, N. (Eds.)Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa. Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2024.ISBN: 9781350378308
- Moledo Pouso, A. M.The Quest for the Solidarity of the World’s Working Class: Luso-African Liberation Movements and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) during the 1960s and early 1970sIn: Dallywater, L.; Saunders, C.; Fonseca, H. A. (Eds.)Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa. New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. pp. 81–102.ISBN: 9783110779264
- Moledo Pouso, A. M."A New Phase of Anti-Imperialist Cooperation": The Making of Liberation Alliances in 1960s' (Unliberated) Southern AfricaComparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. 2020. 29 (4). pp. 13–29.
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Introduction to Global History (tutorial)
Co-taught with Dr. Steffi Marung
Winter term 2017/2018 & 2018/2019
Global and European Studies Institute , Leipzig University
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Germany and the Postcolonial World (seminar)
Co-taught with Dr. Jürgen Dinkel
Summer term 2019
Historisches Seminar, Fakultät für Geschichte und Kunst- und Orientwissenschaften, Leipzig University
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Southern Africa and the Cold War (seminar)
Co-taught with Robin Möser
Winter term 2020–2021
Global and European Studies Institute , Leipzig University