Gesine Krüger (historian)

Gesine Krüger (* 1962 ) is a German historian .

Krüger studied history and political science at the University of Hanover and history and German literature at the University of Cape Town in South Africa . She received her doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover with a thesis on the reception of the German colonial war in Namibia from 1904 to 1907.

From 1996 to 2002, Krüger was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg . 2002 habilitation they are at the University of Hannover with a study on the dissemination of writing in South Africa. Since 2003 she has been an associate professor for modern history at the Department of History at the University of Zurich since 2007 with a focus on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa . In 2007/2008 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Since 2013 she has been leading the History Department at the University of Zurich together with Sebastian Scholz .

Gesine Krüger is co-editor of the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart .

Publications

Between God and the State. The independent churches in South Africa (= Library of African History. Vol. 1). Results Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-925622-55-1 .
Coping with the war and awareness of history. Reality, interpretation and processing of the German colonial war in Namibia 1904 to 1907 (= critical studies on historical science . 133). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35796-6 (also: Hannover, Universität, Dissertation, 1995).
Scripture - power - everyday life. Reading and writing in colonial South Africa. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20116-6 (at the same time: Hannover, Universität, habilitation paper, 2002).