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Anna Osterlow

annakatharina.osterlow@sciencespo.fr
PhD candidate
History of computing (with a focus on Africa), history of knowledge, history of technologies, global history, transnational networks of experts

CHSP Science Po contract PhD student since September 2023.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anna-osterlow

I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke and Global Studies at the University of Leipzig, the Univesity of Vienna and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University. From 2021 to 2023, I worked as a research assistanton a research project on drone infrastructures in Africa and a project on land imaginaries and digitalisation in agriculture, at the Research Centre Global Dynamics in Leipzig.

Publication

« The 'Freedom Fighter' Bobi Wine. A video analysis of populist performance in Uganda »,  April 2022

Awards

  • "Best Graduate of the year 2022", Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium, nov. 2022
  • "Third Best Master Thesis 2022", Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium, nov. 2022

Supervision of PhD Thesis

Thesis under the supervision of Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po, CHSP)

"Training the African “vanguard of the computer age”: A transnational history of Western computer firms in Africa, 1960s-1990s“

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