Mag. Dr. Arno Sonderegger, Privatdoz.

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 Contact

Telephone: +43 1 4277 43207
E-Mail: arno.sonderegger@univie.ac.at

 Profile

Arno Sonderegger is Senior Lecturer for African History and Societies at the Institute of African Studies. In his teaching he offers general courses on African history and on major regions of the continent (West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa) as well as specific courses on topical issues. The latter tie in with personal research interests. Among these are: Pan-Africanism; African nationalisms and socialisms; African studies and history of science; colonialism and imperialism; Eurocentrism; global history.

After studying African studies and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna, Arno Sonderegger completed his dissertation. His PhD study, devoted to a transnational history of ideas approach towards European imaginations of (West) Africa across several centuries, was sponsored by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Teaching positions followed in the International Development Project and at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Vienna as well as at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He completed his habilitation on the history of African political ideas. He is the author of several books and editor of numerous anthologies on various aspects of African history.

 

 

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  • CV

    Lebenslauf (Dez. 2022)

  • Research Focus and Project Proposals

     

    Focal points in research and teaching:

    - African history
    long-term and mid-term
    especially West Africa and Central Africa
    New Cultural History, History of Ideas, Conceptual History
    Social and economic history, political history, cultural and religious history

    - Global history
    Entangled histories
    History of North-South relations
    Transnational history of ideas (Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-imperialism)

    - History of science and the humanities (in particular, historiography)
    Racism and Eurocentrism
    Colonial thought and postcolonialism
    History of the sciences of the culturally foreign (ethnology, areal studies, Orientalist philologies)

    Contributions to all the above fields are available in print. See the bibliography.

     

    Project applications (third-party funding) and grants:

    2019 Funding grant from the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna; networking meeting and conference "The Long History of Pan-African Intellectual Activism: More than a Centenary, 1919-2019" (organiser).

    2015 Austrian Development Agency (ADA) printing grant; "North-South-East-West Relations: An Introduction to Global History" (main editor); application jointly with Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik and Mandelbaum Verlag.

    2014 Funding grant from the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna; conference "African Thoughts on (Neo-) Colonial Worlds: Steps towards an Intellectual History of Africa" (main organiser).

    2014 Grant from the Institute of African Studies, University of Vienna; Conference "African Thoughts on (Neo-) Colonial Worlds: Steps towards an Intellectual History of Africa" (main organiser).

    2013 Funding grant from the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna; "Authors` Workshop - North-South Relations in Global Historical Perspective" (organiser).

    2011 Printing costs grant from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA); "Africa in the 20th Century: History and Society" (main editor); application jointly with the Verein für Geschichte und Sozialkunde (VGS) and Promedia Verlag.

    2010 Austrian Development Agency (ADA) printing grant; "Africa 1500-1900: History and Society" (main editor); application jointly with VGS and Promedia Verlag.

    2008* "Colonialist Thought: On the Representation of "Nature" and "History" of Africa in the Period 1850-1880, and its Relationship to Postcolonial Forms of Representation" (researcher; individual project proposal for the APART grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). Second round.

    2008 Printing grant from public funds of the Austrian Development Cooperation; "Racism: Contributions to a Multifaceted Phenomenon" (co-editor); application jointly with the Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik and Mandelbaum Verlag.

    2007* "Anti-Slavery and Racism, regarding Africa" (researcher; single project proposal for The Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowship Program for 2008-2009, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition/ The Betty and Whitney MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University).

    2007* "Asante im Blickfeld Europas: Zum Wandel des europäischen Blickes im langen 19. Jahrhundert" (Researcher; project proposal for the International Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK, Vienna).

    2006* "Cultural Memory, Interculturally Considered - On the Continuity/Discontinuity of European Images of Africa and their Relationship to Views of the Self. A Study of Pre- and Postcolonial Travel Literature" (researcher; individual project proposal for Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien).

    2005* "Colonialist thinking before and after colonial rule: [West] Africa in the mirror of travel writing, historical and biological views during the years 1850-1880 and 1960-2000" (Researcher; individual project proposal for the APART grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). Second round.

    2002 - 2004 DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences: "On the Question of "African Despotism": European Perceptions and African Realities" (researcher); individual project proposal.

    2002 Printing costs grant by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture; "Jenseits der rassistischen Grenze: Die Wahrnehmung Afrikas bei Johann Gottfried Herder..." (author); application jointly with Peter Lang Verlag.

  • Supervision and Mentoring Activities

    Betreute Dissertationen, Masterarbeiten, Bachelorarbeiten

  • Memberships, Reviewer Activities, Awards an Scholarships

    Memberships:

    since 2017 ENIUGH (European Network in Universal and Global History)

    since 2015 Association of Historians in Germany

    since 2015 VAD (Association of African Studies in Germany)

    since 2015 Human Impact Projects for History and Society-Africa), Expert Advisory Board www.humanimpactprojects.com

    since 2011 ASA (African Studies Association), USA

    since 2011 Society for the Promotion of Sudanese Studies (Vienna)

    2009 - 2018 Book series Edition Weltregionen (EWR), Board of Editors

    since 2000 Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies, founding and editorial board member

    1996 - 2001 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), associate member

     

    Reviewer activities:

    As peer reviewer for journal submissions:

    since 2021 Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (Florianópolis, Brazil)

    since 2018 begutachtet.at - Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Publication (Johannes Kepler University Linz [JKU])

    since 2016 JEP: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik / Austrian Journal of Development Studies (Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik)

    since 2001 Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies

     

    As peer reviewer/ reviewer for other submissions:

    2021 Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

    2021 Dissertation reviewer (Postcolonial Studies), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    since 2020 Habilitation projects in the field of African Studies at the University of Vienna

    2019 Marietta Blau Fellowship (University of Vienna)

    2018 Michael Mitterauer Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History in Vienna (University of Vienna)

    2018 Documentary film production of Interspot Film, scientific consulting: “The Kings of Africa”: Episode 1: Tradition and Awakening (first broadcast 03.12.2018, Servus TV), Episode 2: The Legacy of Colonialism (EA 09.12.2018, Servus TV), Episode 3: Snapshot (EA 17.12.2018, Servus TV)

    since 2017 Dissertation projects at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna: expert opinion

    since 2015 History and Society-Africa; Human Impact Projects

     

    As reviewer for various journals:

    Historische Zeitschrift (Berlin)

    Neue Politische Literatur, Reports from History and Political Science (Darmstadt)

    H-Soz-Kult / Historische Literatur

    Sehepunkte, review journal for historical studies

    H-Africa

    Itinerario, International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction (Leiden)

    Journal of World History (ZWG, Leipzig)

    Stichproben, Vienna Journal of African Studies

    Africa Spectrum (Hamburg)

    Afrikapost (Berlin)

    Indaba. The SADOCC Magazine for Southern Africa (Vienna)

    Damals, The Magazine for History (Leinfelden-Echterdingen)

    Global View (Vienna)

    Historische Sozialkunde (Vienna)

    Journal für Entwicklungspolitik/ Austrian Journal of Development Studies (JEP, Mattersburg)

    IASL online (International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Munich)

    Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ, Berlin)

     

    Awards and scholarships:

    2002 - 2004 DOC Fellowship (Doctoral Dissertation Programme), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

    2001 - 2002 Scholarship, Austrian Ministry of Education

    2000 Excellence Scholarship, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Vienna

    1997 Excellence Scholarship, Senate of the University of Vienna

    1993 - 2000 Scholarship, Austrian Ministry of Education

  • Publications

    Publikationen

Last updated: 20.12.2021