Visiting Professor (as substitute for Prof. Zillinger)
100
Hauptgebäude, Albertus-Magnus Platz 1,
Room 6.110
100
Hauptgebäude, Albertus-Magnus Platz 1,
Room 6.110
Dr. Mary Mbewe
Office HoursThe department welcomes Dr. Mary Mbewe
as visiting professor during the summer semester 2025!
Dr. Mbewe has worked extensively on colonial collections, the history of anthropology and the mission in Central Africa. Her teaching in Cologne will introduce students to critical museum and heritage studies, postcolonial studies, and archival methods in research on colonial collections. She takes office in the department early April and substitutes for Prof Zillinger in the summer semester.
Short Biography
Short Biography
Mary Mbewe obtained her PhD in History at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where she also obtained her Master of Arts in History and a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies under the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APHMS). She was Keeper of History at Moto Moto Museum from 2006 to 2016. Since 2016, she has been teeaching history at Mulungushi University in Zambia. She has held several international fellowships including the Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Centre for Humanities Research(CHR) at UWC (2014-2015), The National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Doctral Fellowship (2017-2023), The SARchi Chair in Visual History Theory Doctoral Research Fellowship (CHR/UWC) and the Action for Restitution to Africa research fellowship (2021-2022). She was international Visiting Graduate Student at the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto in 2019, and was named recipient of the Ivan Karp Doctoral Research award in 2018.
