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Dmitri van den Bersselaar

I am a social and cultural historian with an interest in economic history. I specialise in coastal West Africa, specifically Ghana and Nigeria during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Education:
Leiden University: MA in History (1992)
Leiden University: PhD in Social Science (1998)

Employment:
University of Leipzig: Professor in African History (since 2017)
University of Liverpool: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History (1999-2012) Reader (2012-2017)
Leiden University: Lecturer; Study Advisor (1996-1999)

I work on African responses to - and involvement in - colonialism, missionary enterprise, trading and business. I have previously explored the impact of colonial interaction on issues of identity, community, and personhood. I have also looked at changing perceptions of status, culture, ethnicity and identity in colonial and postcolonial West Africa, and I have been especially interested in the ways in which Africans appropriate ideas and commodities from outside, and make them meaningful as emblems of local communities and identities. At the moment I am working on the impact of multinational business on local African cultures of work and labour.

Last name: 
Bersselaar
Email adress: 
dmitri.van_den_bersselaar@uni-leipzig.de
Publications: 
PDF icon recent_publications_bersselaar2017.pdf
Type of member: 
Fellow member
Affiliation: 
University of Leipzig
Expertise on: 
Ghana
Nigeria
West Africa
Preposition: 
van den
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