SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Book Manuscripts in Preparation

• Decolonization, Cold War, and the Organization of African Unity: The creation of the African refugee regime in global perspective 1963-1990. 
• Work in Progress: Angolan and Mozambican Cold War Labor Migration to East Germany and Back. 

Special Issue

• Rethinking refuge: Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa. Co-edited with George Njung, Africa Today,  scheduled to appear as 68.3 (spring 2022) and 68.4 (summer 2022).

Edited Volumes

• Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Co-edited with Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich and Immanuel Harisch, Africa in Global History Series. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, 2021. 
• The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee & Global South Researchers. Co-edited with Kate Reed. Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, under review.

Dissertation

• Socialist Solidarities and Their Afterlives: Histories and Memories of Angolan and Mozambican Migrants in the German Democratic Republic, 1975-2015.PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, September 2017.

Articles

• Small Strangers at the School of Friendship: Memories of Mozambican School Students to the German Democratic Republic, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington DC, Supplement 15, 2020, pp. 41-59.
• Negotiating the German Democratic Republic: Angolan Student Migration during the Cold War 1976-90, Africa, Vol. 89, S1, 2019, pp. 144-166.
• A Chronology of Nostalgia: Memories of Former Angolan and Mozambican Worker Trainees to East Germany, Labor History, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2018, pp. 352-374. 
• Constructing and Deconstructing the “Black East” – a helpful research agenda?, Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien. Vol. 18, No. 34. 2018, pp. 135-152.
• A Conversation about Global Lives in Global History: South Korean Overseas Travelers and Angolan and Mozambican Labourers in East Germany during the Cold War, Atelier, Revue électronique du Centre de recherches historiques, No. 18, 2018.
• From Luanda and Maputo to Berlin: Uncovering Angolan and Mozambican migrants’ motives to move to the German Democratic Republic (1979-90), African Economic History, Vol. 44, 2016, pp. 202-234.

Book Chapters

• History Dialogues: Opportunities and Challenges of Oral History Research through Refugee Voices, Narratives, and Memories, with Mohamed Zakaria Abdalla, Richesse Ndiritiro, Shaema Omar, Kate Reed, Samson Rer, and Gerawork Teferra. In Global South Scholars in the Western Academy: Harnessing Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and Positionality in the Third Space, Staci B. Martin, Deepra Dandekar, (eds), Behavioural Science and Education Series, Routledge (forthcoming 2021).
• Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War, with Eric Burton, Immanuel Harisch, Anne Dietrich. In Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War, Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia C. Schenck (eds.), de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 1-58.
• Paths are Made by Walking Them: Memories of being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the German Democratic Republic (with Ibraimo Alberto). In: Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War, Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia C. Schenck (eds.), de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 247-262.
•  Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship (with Francisca Raposo). In: Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War, Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia C. Schenck (Hrsg.) de Gruyter,  2021, pp. 235-245.
• Wandergesellen des Kalten Krieges: Arbeits- und Ausbildungsmigration von Angola und Mosambik nach Ostdeutschland und zurück. In: Für Respekt und Anerkennung: Die mosambikanischen Vertragsarbeiter und das schwierige Erbe aus der DDR, B. Neumann-Becker, Hans-Joachim Döring, (eds.), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2020, pp. 103-114 .
• Uncomfortable Pasts: Talking about Slavery in Angola (with Mariana P. Candido). In: African Heritage and Memory of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World, Ana Lucia Araujo (ed), Cambria Press, 2015, pp. 213-252.

Book Reviews

• Zack Kagan-Guthrie. Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965. In: Labor: Studies in Working Class History, 2021, pp. 120-121.
• Jeffrey James Byrne. Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order. In: Connections, Oct. 20, 2018.
• Todd Cleveland: Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975. In: H-Soz-Kult, 9. Feb. 2016.
• Tanja R. Müller: Legacies of Socialist Solidarity: East Germany in Mozambique; Ulrich Van der Heyden, Wolfgang Semmler and Ralf Straßburg, (eds.): Mozambican Contract laborers in the GDR economy: Background – Course – Consequences. In: African Studies Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2015, pp. 247-250.
• Ute Dieckmann: Hai||om in the Etosha Region: A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation.  In: International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2009, pp. 492-493.

Science Communication

• Afrikas vergessene Flüchtlingskonvention, Völkerrechtsblog, 15.06.2021.
• Refugees in African History, Interview for Trafo Blog for Transregional Research, March 23rd, 2021.
• Über Mosambikanischen Vertragsarbeiter_innen in der DDR, Interview for Radio Corax, March 20, 2021.
• „Potenzial für Krise und Innovation“ – Historikerin Marcia Schenck nutzt die Möglichkeiten digitaler Lehre, Interview for Neues aus der UP, March, 2021. 
• History without borders: How historians engage in humanitarian work, H-Net African Refugees Crossroads, December 7th, 2020.
• Global History Dialogues Website featuring student-researchers’ work from the History Dialogues Project, went live in November 2020, continuously updated.
• Blog Series, Histories of Refuge for Africa is a Country, edited by Madina Thiam, consisting of several entries, resulting from a Workshop I organized at the Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin in June 2019. Publication of entries 2020-21.
• Africa’s forgotten refugee convention, Africa is a Country, November 3rd, 2020.
• Rethinking Refuge: Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa and Beyond, Interview, Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’ TRAFO Blog, March 12, 2019.
• History Dialogues Trailer, Princeton Online on YouTube, Princeton University, January 2020.
• From Campus to Camp and Back, Ammodi - African Migration, Mobility, and Displacement - Blogpost, October 22, 2019.
• Geschichtswissenschaften ohne Grenzen: Wie GeschichtswissenschaftlerInnen sich im humanitären Kontext engagieren, FluchtforschungsBlog, October 3, 2019.
• Between Hammer, Machete, and Kalashnikov: Contract Labor Migration from Angola and Mozambique to East Germany, 1979-1990, Europe Now, Issue 15, March 2018.
• ‘The increasing numbers of refugees are not an aberration, they are likely to be the new norm,’ Interview with refugee expert Prof. Alexander Betts, University of Oxford, AdHoc Nefia magazine, p. 24-25, September 2016.
• Field Notes from Angola, Winner of American History Association blog contest. Blogging on AHA Today about fieldwork in summer 2015.
• A Democratic Republic of the Mind, short film about Magerman political struggle, co-written and filmed with Jack Davis in Mozambique Jan. – June 2015. 
• Ostalgie in Mosambik: Erinnerungen ehemaliger mosambikanischer Vertragsarbeiter in der DDR. In: Südlink, Vol. 43, No. 172, 8. June 2015, pp.21-23. 
• The End of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk but Not of South Africa’s Path to Unity. In: Alumnae Quarterly, Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2014, p.80.
• Mandela: How South Africa Saw Him. In: The Ship, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 2014, pp.74-76. 
• Wie kommt der Reis zur Currywurst? Oder: wie Arbeitsmigration Entwicklung fördern kann. In: Internationale Politik, Jan./Feb. 2014, Special Edition Mercator Kolleg 2013, pp.63-65.
• Press inquiries answered since 2014: BBC Radio 4, Equal Times, Dummy, Bayrischer Rundfunk (Germany), OVT Radio (Netherlands)

Reports

• Remigration im Kontext Internationaler Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Eine empirische Untersuchung der Programmkomponente Rückkehrende Fachkräfte in Indonesien, [Remigration in the context of international development cooperation: an empirical examination of the Program Returning Experts in Indonesia], CIM Paper Series (6), Centrum für Internationale Migration und Entwicklung (GIZ), May 2014.