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Julia Tischler is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Basel. She completed her PhD at the University of Cologne, followed by postdocs at the University of Bielefeld and the International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” (re:work) at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Her first book Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation. The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation examined nation-building and “development” in late-colonial southern Africa.
She has recently completed a rough draft for her second book entitled The Kingdom of Mealies: Agricultural Progressivism in Segregationist South Africa, 1900-1950, which examines agricultural progressivism and racial politics from a transnational perspective. She has also published in the field of environmental history, including two volumes on climate change and social science research.