VITA
Academic career
- 2008 Ph.D. in Political Science (Political Sociology), Freie Universität Berlin / Sciences Po Paris
- 2000 Diplom (MA-equivalent) in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1998 German-French Diploma in Political and Social Science, Freie Universität Berlin / Sciences Po Paris
Stays abroad
- 11/2015 Visiting Fellow, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS), New York University, New York City, U.S.A., archival research, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, U.S.A.
- 11/2008 – 12/2008 Visiting doctoral candidate, Columbia University, New York City, U.S.A., archival research, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
- 2 years in total between 11/2002 - 11/2006 Sciences Po / Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, France, doctoral candidate (co-tutelle), stay at partner university
- 4 months in total between 2003 - 2005 Ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal and Mali
- 10/1996 – 09/1997 Sciences Po Paris, study abroad, Deutsch-Französischer Studienzyklus in Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
Work experience
- since 01/2023 Researcher and project-coordinator at TU Dresden, Institute of History, Germany
- 08/2022 – 12/2022 Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden, Germany
- since 10/2011 Associated Researcher, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
- 03/2013 – 12/2016 Associated Senior Fellow, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany
- 02/2011 – 02/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth
- 08/2008 – 02/2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand / French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Johannesburg, South Africa
Linguistic proficiency
- German, native speaker
- French, fluent in speech, writing and reading
- English, fluent in speech, writing and reading
- Portuguese, basic knowledge
Research and teaching focus
- History of German and American (Social) Psychology in the first half of the 20th century
- Epistemology of the concept of (social) representation(s)
- Migration and urban transformation (South Africa), West-African migrations (Senegal, Mali, Mauritania) to France, South Africa, and the U.S.
Scholarships and Awards
- 11/2015 Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS), New York University, New York City / Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), Sleepy Hollow, U.S.A., CIRHUS-RAC Research fellowship for archival research
- 07/2010 Meisterklasse 2010, University of Konstanz, Germany, fellow
- 11/2008 – 12/2008 Columbia University, New York City, U.S.A., Alliance Program, doctoral mobility grant
- 12/2006 Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, short-term doctoral fellowship
- 11/2005 – 08/2006 French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eiffel Scholarship Program of Excellence
- 04/2005 – 09/2005 European Commission, Marie Curie Fellowship
- 04/2002 – 03/2005 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, doctoral fellowship
- 01/2002 – 03/2002 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), short-term doctoral fellowship
HAIT-RESEARCH PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in journals
Objet et processus de recherche: Méthodologie et épistémologie du concept de représentation(s)
Ludl, Christine
In: Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology, 1 (2015), 1&2, pp. 91-110.
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Repli sur soi et ouverture vers l’autre dans l'Afrique du Sud contemporaine. Représentation(s) de la mobilité et insertion des migrants sénégalais et maliens à Johannesburg
Ludl, Christine
In: Transcontinentales (2010), 8/9
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'To skip a step’: New Representation(s) of Migration, Success and Politics in Senegalese Rap and Theatre
Ludl, Christine
In: Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 8 (2008), 14, pp. 97-122.
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Articles in Anthologies
Ambivalent Cosmopolitans? Representation(s) of Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg
In: Mamadou Diouf; Rosalind Fredericks (Ed.): The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities. Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging.
Palgrave MacMillan, New York 2014., pp. 231-252. (Ludl, Christine)
Générations de la migration. Introduction
In: Emmanuel Ma Mung; Cédric Audebert (Ed.): Les migrations internationales: enjeux contemporains et questions nouvelles.
Publications de l'Université de Deusto, Bilbao 2007., pp. 177-181. (Ludl, Christine; Gonin, Patrick)
Reviews
Dominique Vidal: Migrants du Mozambique dans le Johannesburg de l’après-apartheid. Travail, frontières, altérité, Paris, Johannesburg, Karthala-IFAS, 2014
Ludl, Christine
In: Politique africaine (2014) 135, pp. 230-232.In: www.cairn.info, pp. 230-232.
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