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Michael Goebel
Michael Goebel is Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2018 and 2021 he was the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He has written about the global history of migration, of nationalism, and of cities; for instance in his book Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is the Principal Investigator on this project.
Christian Jones
Christian Jones is a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his previous degrees in history at the University of Cambridge and the Graduate Institute, Geneva, with a global and international focus. Christian is interested in the history of nationalism and cosmopolitanism and its links to urban social history, especially in Southeast Asia, and is researching the Straits Settlements in his thesis.
Cecilia Maas
Cecilia Maas holds a PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin, where she was a fellow of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History. In her dissertation, she focused on the history of motion pictures and recorded sound technologies in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Santiago de Chile between the 1890s and the 1920s. She collaborates with Patchwork Cities as an IT researcher, developing an interactive exploration of quantitative and qualitative sources. Her technical skills include programming with Python, and HTML/CSS.
Yorim Spoelder
Yorim Spoelder is a postdoctoral research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. He previously held various fellowships at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freie Universität Berlin and the Graduate Institute, Geneva, was a guest scholar at EHESS Paris, and affiliated as a researcher with the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He currently works on a comparative study of colonial cosmopolitanisms in Asian metropolises across the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French and British imperial spheres.
Xinge Zhai
Xinge Zhai is a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin. A human geographer and an interdisciplinary social scientist by training, she became interested in global history and urban history during her studies at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and wrote a M.A. thesis on the urban system change of China’s Lower Yangtze. For her PhD project, Xinge will compare urbanisation processes of inland cities in the Lower Yangtze, western India, and western Anatolia during the first globalisation; her broader interests lie in the histories of migration, of industrialisation, and of inequality.