Historisches Institut

Team Historisches Institut

Jan-Niklas Kniewel

Doktorand

Ordinariat Neueste Geschichte

E-Mail
jan-niklas.kniewel@unibe.ch
Büro
B110, Unitobler, Länggassstrasse 49
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Historisches Institut
Länggassstrasse 49
3012 Bern
Pers. Website
jan-niklaskniewel.com

CV

Since 2022 Doctoral research, Modern History, University of Bern
2021 M.A., Contemporary History, University of Potsdam
2019 - 2021 Editor at a popular science magazine
2018 B.A., Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin
2016 - 2019 Editor at a human rights organisation
2013 - 2019 Freelance journalist

Main Areas of Research

  • ​​​History of Africa and West Asia in the 20th and 21st century
  • Political Ecology and Nature Conservation
  • Authoritarianism
  • Armed Conflicts
  • NGOs

Current Research Project

Extracting (certain) Humans from Nature: NGOs and the Negotiation of the Conservation Frontier in Africa, 1960-2003

Awards/Fellowships

2023-2025 PhD Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation
2023 Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2022 Start-up Grant, Historical Institute, University of Bern
2022 Nominee of the Faculty of Humanities for the University of Potsdam’s Graduate Award