Research

Postdoctoral Research

In my current research as part of the project “Inherited Futures. Objects, Time, Knowledge” (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation), I explore how material objects such as archival letters and photographs preserve and transport knowledges and how their meanings transform through circulation processes.

I am also interested in the more abstract and immaterial dimensions of inheriting, which figure, for example, in inherited injustices and the archival formations of this. More broadly, I am interested in how artistic practices shape discourses on (de)coloniality, inheritance, memory and imagined futures.

Here you find my published articles and courses taught on these themes.

Doctoral Research

In my PhD project at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, I engaged deeply with discourses on archives as sites of knowledge production and contestation. The book focuses on the role of photographic archives and explores how contemporary authors and artists from Namibia use photography as a way to make sense of the country’s complex colonial history. My dissertation was published with transcript in 2025 and is titled Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art.