Fields of Expertise
Biography
Marie Huber holds a Ph.D. in history from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In her Ph.D. project, she investigated UNESCO's cultural development-aid for nation-building in Ethiopia during the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently a a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for History at the Humboldt Universität and the Principal Investigator of a research project on aviation in postcolonial Africa. This project is the initial phase of a larger comparative study on a global history of state enterprises in developing countries after 1950.
Bibliography
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960–1980. Developing Heritage – Developing Countries. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/570571.
„Altes Wissen auf neuen Wegen - Die Verbreitung von Äthiopienwissen durch internationale Netzwerke 1950-1980“. In Wissen in Bewegung: Migration und globale Verflechtungen in der Zeitgeschichte seit 1945., herausgegeben von Simone Lässig, Stephanie Zloch, und Lars Müller, 291–321. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
„Making Ethiopian Heritage World Heritage. UNESCO’s Role in Ethiopian Cultural and Natural Heritage / Faire Du Patrimoine Éthiopien Un Patrimoine Mondial: Le Rôle de l’Unesco Dans La Reconnaissance Du Patrimoine Culturel et Naturel Éthiopien“. Annales d’Éthiopie 31, Nr. 1 (2016): 45–64. https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.2016.1623.