Personenprofil

Kurzprofil

I am current PhD candidate the university of Leipzig, based in the faculty of African Studies and also enrolled in the Graduate School for Global and Area Studies. My current dissertation is entitled " The political Economy of British Somaliland", which seeks to interrogate the political, fiscal, and administrative aspects of British imperialism in Somaliland, and how of each of these three aspects shaped and defined imperial rule. Before starting the PhD in Leipzig I earned a BA in international relations/German from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. From 2015-2016 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bench Maji Ethiopia, and from 2017-2018 I was an English Teaching fellow in Rehovot, Israel. In 2018 I moved to Leipzig to pursue an MA in African Studies. My main research interests revolve around historical capitalism, finance and development, empire and the New Imperialism, and more recently the legal and jurisprudential aspects of imperial rule.