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Marcia C. Schenck
[edit]Marcia C. Schenck (1986 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German historian. Since 2020 she has been holding the chair for Global History at the University of Potsdam . Previously she worked as a lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin and as a guest lecturer at the Princeton University[1].
Life and Career
[edit]Marcia Schenck studied International Relations at the Mount Holyoke College. She did her master in African Studies at the University of Oxford and gained her doctorate in history in 2017 at the Princeton University.[2] After finishing her postdoc at the International Graduate College on the topic of work and life from a global history perspective at the Humboldt University of Berlin she obtained the chair for Global History at the University of Potsdam. There, she is part of the jury which grants the “Voltaire prize for tolerance” financed by the Friede Springer Stiftung.
Schenck worked as a teaching assistant in the Kakuma refugee camp in North Kenya within the framework of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Global History Lab coordinated by Jeremy Adelman. She has built on this experience in the years since with the goal of making the teaching of history possible under non-institutional conditions and contribute to the project humanitarian-history-in-action.
Schenck published her first monography with the title Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin (from Luanda to Maputo to East-Berlin) in 2025 which deals with the experiences of African contract laborers in the German Democratic Republic [from their own perspective. She conducted 260 interviews with former contract laborers for this book.[3]
Global History Dialogues Project
[edit]At the University of Potsdam, Schenck is part of the research group on cultures of illegitimate military violence[4] and a graduate school on minor cosmopolitanisms.[5] Moreover, since 2019 she collaborates with Professor Jeremy Adelman and Princeton’s Global History Lab (also known as Global History Dialogues Project) in providing access to higher education in the humanities to refugee and host-country learners around the world. The course equips the students with the tools and support they need to carry out their own historical research projects and share the narratives that they create with the wider world on a student conference at the end of the course.[6] The project is a roughly six-month-long course in research methodology during which learners design, conduct, write, and present original global history research projects. It supports global research by training student-researchers in history, empowering new voices and fostering cross-border historical dialogue. The GHL has also become a space for experimenting with collaborative writing and publication between teaching staff and learners. These co-authoring projects aim to bridge the archetypal field-academe divide in pursuit of a more horizontal, democratic, and open process of knowledge production.[7]
The Lab collaborates with 26 partner institutions around the globe in 21 countries, including in Colombia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Italy, and Hungary. The Global History Lab includes Narrative Observatories, a growing global project exploring how stories unite, divide, and shape the world.[8]
Schenck’s main areas of interest include the history of decolonization, African History, and the history of socialist solidarities. Within African history, Schenck gives particular attention to decolonization’s implications for minorities and the ensuing migration flows within the continent. Socialist solidarities, as a research field encompasses the intergovernmental relationship among countries of the socialist bloc. Schenck dedicated the earlier part of her career to this field by investigating the relations between the socialist Mozambiquan and Angolan states and the German Democratic Republic.
References
[edit]- ^ "Marcia C. Schenck | Department of History".
- ^ "Marcia C. Schenck".
- ^ "Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin | Marcia C. Schenck |". www.aufbau-verlage.de (in German). 2025-03-12. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
- ^ Woywod, Annette. "Homepage". www.uni-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
- ^ Böhm, Laura. "Homepage". www.uni-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
- ^ "Homepage | Global History Dialogues". globalhistorydialogues.org. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
- ^ Wetzel, Johanna M.; Schenck, Marcia C.; Reed, Kate (2023-09-01), "2 "Writing with my professors"", Postcolonial Studies (in German), Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, pp. 31–54, doi:10.14361/9783839463994-002, ISBN 978-3-8376-6399-0, retrieved 2025-08-24
- ^ "The Narratives of Now | Global History Dialogues". globalhistorydialogues.org. Retrieved 2025-08-24.