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PD Dr Katrin Bromber

Privatdozentin Dr. habil. Katrin Bromber

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Nationality: German

Academic Degrees

2009-	Habilitation, African Studies, University of Vienna Habilitation, venia docendi in African Studies, University of Vienna, Thesis: Between Legitimation and Regulation. The Swahili Military Press During World War II
1993	Ph.D. African Linguistics, University of Leipzig, (magna cum laude) Thesis: Political Speeches as Distinct Sort of Texts? A Speech Act Theoretical Analysis of Swahili
1988	MA in Swahili Studies, University of Leipzig Thesis: Swahili Keywords of Tanzania‘s Political Elite (with highest marks)

Positions

2014 – current	Senior researcher and academic head of the research group “Progress and its Discontents: Ideas, Practices, Materiality” (research focus: Body politics and Ethiopian modernity, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
2008 – 2013	Senior researcher and academic head of the research group “Concepts of World and Order” (research focus: social history of sports in Africa and Asia, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
2003 - 2007	Research fellow: Travelling through the War. Discursive Strategies for Encouraging Transoceanic Mobility in the Swahili Military Press of the King’s African Rifles in World War II. (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
2004	Senior lecturer in Swahili and Applied Linguistics (Department of African Studies, University of Vienna)
2001 - 2002	Research fellow: Communicating Difference. Linguistic Means of Exclusion in the Swahili Press of Colonial Tanzania (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
1995 - 1998	Research fellow: Body, Space and Time of Power: Studies into Historical Anthropology and Mental History of Tanzania (1850-1960). (Department of African Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin; funded by German Research Council)
1992 - 1995	Research fellow: Historiographical Swahili Poetry. (Department of African Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin; funded by German Research Council)

Grants

1999-2000	Research Grant of the Berlin City Council: Gendered Slavery – a Study of the History of Slavery on the Basis of Swahili Sources
1988-1992	Doctoral fellowship (University of Leipzig)

Field Research

1993-2003	Tanzania (Swahili Poetry, Intellectual History)
2005	Kenya (Indian Ocean Studies, World War II)
2009	UAE/Bahrain (Sports and Body Cultures)
2009-2015	Ethiopia (Sports, Body Politics, Modernity)

Service to the Scientific Community

Since 2012	Chairwoman of the Academic Association for the Studies on the Horn of Africa (WAKHVA)
Since 2015	Editorial Advisory Board Member - Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies
Since 2015	Editorial Advisory Board Member - Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures (SDALC)

Teaching experience

Textlinguistics, Mediacommunication, Applied Linguistics, African Linguistics, Elementary and Advanced Swahili, Swahili Literature, Swahili in Arabic Script (Leipzig University, Humboldt-University Berlin, Free University Berlin, University of Vienna), Anthropology of the Body (Summer School of History, Anthropology and Heritage, Mekelle University)

Language skills

German: native
English: fluent
Swahili: fluent
Amharic: moderate speaking and reading knowledge
French/Russian: good reading knowledge
Tigrinya: basic knowledge

List of Publications (since 2000)

	Books
2014	with Steffen Wippel, Christian Steiner, Birgit Krawietz (eds.): Under Construction. Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region, Farnham: Ashgate. Rez.: Geographische Zeitschrift (2015), 103:2.
2013	with Birgit Krawietz and Joseph Maguire (eds.): Sport Across Asia. Politics, Cultures and Identities. New York: Routledge. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society 2.
2012	with Heike Liebau, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja (eds.): The World in World Wars. Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden: Brill.
2009	Imperiale Propaganda. Die ostafrikanische Militärpresse im Zweiten Weltkrieg, ZMO-Studien 28, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin.
2004	with Birgit Smieja (eds.): Globalization and African Languages: Risks and Benifits. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2003	with Miehe, Gudrun, Said Khamis, and Ralf Großerhode (eds.): Kala Shairi. German East Africa in Swahili Poems. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
2003	with Wirz, Albert, and Andreas Eckert (eds.): Alles unter Kontrolle. Disziplinierungsprozesse im kolonialen Tanzania (ca. 1850 - 1960). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
2001	The Jurisdiction of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Subjects of Foreign Nations, ca 1890. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

	Articles (peer reviewed journals)
2017	The Stadium and the City: Sports Infrastructure in Late Imperial Ethiopia and Beyond, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 32 (1), 53-72.
2017	Von "Neuen Zeiten" und "Neuen Körpern": Fitness im kaiserlichen Äthiopien (1940er-1970er), Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies 32 (17), 1-33.
2014	with Katharina Lange, Jeanne Féaux de la Croix: The Temporal Politics of Big Dams in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: By Way of an Introduction. In: Id. (eds.), Temporal Politics of Big Dams in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, Special Issue of Water History 6(4), Springer Netherlands, Dezember 2014, 289-296.
2014	with Birgit Krawietz and Petar Petrov: Wrestling in Multifarious Modernity, The International Journal of the History of Sport 31 (4), 391-404.
2013	Muscularity, Heavy Athletics and Urban Leisure in Ethiopia, 1950s-1970s, The International Journal of the History of Sport 30(16), 1915-1928.
2013	Improving the Physical Self. Sport, Body Politics, and Ethiopian Modernity, ca. 1920-1974, Northeast African Studies 13(1), 71-99.
2013	“Muscular Christianity”. The Role of the Ethiopian YMCA Sports in Shaping “Modern” Masculinities (1950s-1970s), SDALC (47), 29-44.
2012	"Ethiopian" Wrestling between Sportization of National Heritage and Dynamic Youth Culture, Ityupis. Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2, 23-40.
2007	German Colonial Administrators, Swahili Lecturers and the Promotion of Swahili at the Seminar für orientalische Sprachen in Berlin. Sudanic Africa. A Journal of Historical Sources 14 (2004), 39-54.

	Articles (in other journals)
2015	with Paolo Gaibazzi, Franziska Roy, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Julian Tadesse: "The Possibilities are Endless": Progress and the Taming of Contingency, ZMO Programmatic Texts No. 9
2007	Blühende Medienlandschaften Britische Informationspolitik für ostafrikanische Truppen während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. sozialgeschichte.extra 2007-12-10, S. 1-25.
2005	mit Ravi Ahuja, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Margret Frenz, Patrick Krajewski, Brigitte Reinwald: Neuere Literatur zum Indischen Ozean - eine kritische Würdigung, Periplus. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, 141-172.
2000	Biashara nzuri – biashara mbaya. Eine textanalytische Untersuchung zum Abgrenzungsdiskurs in der kolonialen tansanischen Presse (Mambo Leo, 1923). Swahili Forum VII (2000), 97-125.

	Book chapters
2017	"Sports", in: David Appleyard /Alessandro Bausi /Wolfgang Hahn /Steven Kaplan /Siegbert Uhlig (eds.): Ethiopia and the Horn - Ancient Lands in the Modern World, Berlin: LitVerlag.
2016	Ustaarabu: A Conceptual Change in Tanganyikan Newspaper Discourse in the 1920s. In: Margrit Pernau und Dominic Sachsenmaier (ed.): Global Conceptual History. A Reader. London, New York: Bloomsbury [Reprint from: Roman Loimeier, Rüdiger Seesemann, 2006]
2015	Introduction: The Landscape Paradigm as Operational Concept, in: Narendra Bondlam et al. (eds.): Cultural Landscapes of Ethiopia: Conference Proceedings, Mekelle: Mekelle University Printing Press, 7-9.
2014	with Steffen Wippel, Birgit Krawietz, Christian Steiner. The Arabian Gulf: Urban Development in the Making, in Steffen Wippel et al. (eds.), Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region .Farnham : Ashgate, 1-14.
2014	The Sporting Way. Sport as Branding Strategy in the Gulf States, in: Katrin Bromber, Steffen Wippel, Christian Steiner, Birgit Krawietz (ed.): Under Construction. Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region, Farnham: Ashgate, 119-130.
2014	Muscles, Dresses, and Conflicting Ideas of Progress: Ethiopia in the 1960s and 1970s, in Josep Martí (ed.), African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 171-190.
2013	with Birgit Krawietz, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain as a Modern Sport Hub, in Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire (ed.), Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities, New York: Routledge research in sport, culture and society 21, 189-211.
2013	Working with “Translocality”: Conceptual Implications and Analytical Consequences, in Steffen Wippel (ed.), Regionalizing Oman: Political, Economic and Social Dynamics, Heidelberg: Springer, United Nations University Series on Regionalism 6. 63-74.
2010	Mapping the Ocean: Visual Representations of the Indian Ocean in the Swahili Military Press during World War II, in: Ulrike Freitag, Achim v. Oppen (eds.), Translocality. The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective, Leiden: Brill.
2008	Do not Destroy Our Honour: War Time Propaganda Directed at East African Soldiers in Ceylon (1943-44), in Ashwini Tambe, Harald Fischer-Tiné (eds.), The Limits of British Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean, London/New York; Routledge, 84-101.
2007	Buibui: Un Débat sur le Vêtement Porté par le Femmes sur la Côte du Tanganyika (1929-1934), in Jean-Luc Vellut (ed.), Ville d'Afrique. Exploration en Histoire Urbaine, Paris: L'Harmattan, 201-17.
2007	"Furnish us with the Zanzibar History" - Geschichte im medialen Differenzdiskurs, in Catherine Griefenow-Mewis (ed.), Afrikanische Horizonte. Studien zur Sprachen, Kulturen und zur Geschichte, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 59-69.
2007	Mjakazi, Mpambe, Mjoli, Suria. Female Slaves in Swahili Sources, in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller (eds.), Women and Slavery. Volume One. Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic, Athens: Ohio University Press, 111-128.
2006	Ustaarabu – A Conceptual Change in Tanganyikan Newspaper Discourse in the 1920s, in Roman Loimeier, Rüdiger Seesemann (eds.), The Global Worlds of the Swahili: Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in the 19th and 20th-Century East Africa, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 67-81.
2003	Disziplinierung - eine europäische Erfindung? Das elementare islamische Bildungswesen an der ostafrikanischen Küste des späten 19. Jahrhunderts, in Albert Wirz et al. (eds.), Alles unter Kontrolle, 37-53.
2003	Ein Lied auf die hohen Herren. Die deutsche Kolonialzeit in der Swahilidichtung der Jahrhundertwende, in Albert Wirz et al. (eds.), Alles unter Kontrolle, 73-98.
2003	with Jürgen Becher, Abdallah bin Hemedi - ein Vertreter der administrativen Elite im Transformationsprozeß zwischen Busaidi-Herrschaft und deutscher Kolonialadministration, in Albert Wirz et al. (eds.), Alles unter Kontrolle, 54-70.
2003	with Andeas Eckert, A People's Princess? Der Besuch von Princess Margaret in Tanganyika, Oktober 1956, in Albert Wirz et al. (eds.), Alles unter Kontrolle, 203-220.
2003	Verdienste von Lehrern und Lektoren des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin im Schaffen und Bewahren von Swahili-Wortkunst, in: Flora Veit-Wildt (ed.), Nicht nur Mythen und Märchen. Afrika-Literaturwissenschaft als Herausforderung, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 34-57.
2002	Who are the Zanzibari? Newspaper Debates on Difference, 1948-1948, in Jan-Georg Deutsch, Brigitte Reinwald (eds.), Space on the Move: Transformations of the Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 75-89.

	Book Reviews
2016	Axel Fleisch/Rhiannon Stephens (eds.), Doing Conceptual History in Africa, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books 2016, sehepunkte 16(11), 15.11.2016