Profile Background
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen is Acting Chair of Transregional Cultures of Knowledge, University of Regensburg. Previously she led the German Research Foundation-funded junior research group ‘African Knowledges and the History Public*ation’ at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth. She was lecturer in Global & African history at the University of Basel. She is a 2016 – 2018 Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellowship recipient (Swiss National Science Foundation).
She is co-editor of the volume “The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa” (2021). And the author of "Mediators, Contract Men and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909" (2018). Her research focuses on social history and the history of technology and knowledge “transfer” in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as digital history and African historical cultures.
The Historical Society of Liberia is honored to have Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Ph.D. on its leadership board, contributing to the academic rigor and preservation efforts of our nation's history.