Dr. Caroline Authaler

• since February 2021: Research assistant in the Department of History of Bielefeld University, head of the research area "History as an Appointment / Professional History", associated in the profile areas "Historical Cultures" and "Global History"
• October 2020 - December 2020: Research assistant in the project "Challenge accepted - Research on challenges of participation and suitable solutions for museum work", DOMiD (Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany e.V.).
• December 2017 - November 2020: Project manager "Gemeinsam unterwegs? Geschichte(n) der Migrationsgesellschaft" #Meinwanderungsland, DOMiD https://domid.org/ (Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany e.V.), awarded the Zukunftspreis der Kulturpolitischen Gesellschaft 2021 in the category Individual Projects
• April 2014 - November 2017: Research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Düsseldorf (Chair of Global History, Prof. Dr Stefanie Michels), collaborator in the project "Colonial Connections/Grasland-Rhineland/Germany-Cameroon" http://deutschland-postkolonial.de/, collaborator in the teaching research project "Düsseldorf and the World" https://www.geschichte.hhu.de/abteilungen/ausgelaufene-abteilungen/europaeische-expansion/unsere-forschung/duesseldorfer-globalgeschichte-lehrforschung
• May 2016: Doctorate at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on: "German plantations in British Cameroon 1925 to 1939. Colonialism between internationalisation and regional negotiations", grade: summa cum laude, reviewed in: H-Soz-Kult, 31 January 2019 (Ralph Erbar), online at: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-27242 , Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 67:10 (2019), pp. 877-880 (Bea Lundt), Das Historisch-Politische Buch 67:2 (2019) (U. van der Heyden), Werkstatt Geschichte 84 (2021:2) (Kerstin Stubenvoll), online at: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WG_84_Authaler.pdf; The Journal of Modern History 97:2 (2025) (Frank Biess), online at: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412
• September 2010 - February 2014: Research assistant at the Department of History at Heidelberg University (Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Prof. Dr Madeleine Herren)
• November 2010 - February 2014: University didactics training at the University Didactics Centre of the Universities of Baden-Württemberg
• 2009 - 2013: several research trips to Cameroon and Togo
• 2002 - 2010: Studied Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Romance Studies at the Universities of Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Bologna, funded by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2004-2009)

Memberships:
AFAAC (Association of Friends of Antiquities and Archives in Cameroon)
RheinlandGlobal (AG of Deutschland Postkolonial e.V., http://deutschland-postkolonial.de)
düsseldorf postcolonial
Aktion Oberbilker Geschichte(n), Scientific Advisory Board (https://www.d-oberbilk.de/oberbilker-geschichten)