Since our project was at first mainly conceptualized (and funded) as a network of early-career academics, here is some more information on our original core members, and on additional early-career academics who became members at a later stage in the project’s development:
Our original team consisted of both Black and white early-career academics who were mainly based in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and represented a range of academic fields that included History, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. One of our aims was to make connections between discourses that had hitherto largely seemed to develop in parallel to, or even in opposition to, each other, such as Critical Whiteness Studies / Kritische Weißseinsforschung; research from US-American (especially African American), Black British and Black German Studies, comparative Postcolonial Studies, Black theoretical discourses within Germany, academic research about the Black Diaspora, and debates conducted in the wider public sphere (including the interventions by researchers working outside academia, as well as social, political and cultural activists, for instance from the Black German community). Thus, our project not only promoted networking among early-career academics, but also aimed to connect with more established scholars, Black political and cultural activists, artists and professionals (for instance from the fields of anti-racist education and diversity training), and the wider Black diasporic community – thus extending its networking beyond the original core members and beyond the relatively narrow limits that institutional academic conventions normally often pose to the size and diversity of academic research networks.
Nonetheless, for those who would like to know more about the academic side of our profile, here is a list of our members who joined are the network as early-career academics (though some have moved to more senior positions by now), and of more senior scholars who functioned as academic associates and provided advice and encouragement during the early stages of our project:
Our original team consisted of both Black and white early-career academics who were mainly based in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and represented a range of academic fields that included History, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. One of our aims was to make connections between discourses that had hitherto largely seemed to develop in parallel to, or even in opposition to, each other, such as Critical Whiteness Studies / Kritische Weißseinsforschung; research from US-American (especially African American), Black British and Black German Studies, comparative Postcolonial Studies, Black theoretical discourses within Germany, academic research about the Black Diaspora, and debates conducted in the wider public sphere (including the interventions by researchers working outside academia, as well as social, political and cultural activists, for instance from the Black German community). Thus, our project not only promoted networking among early-career academics, but also aimed to connect with more established scholars, Black political and cultural activists, artists and professionals (for instance from the fields of anti-racist education and diversity training), and the wider Black diasporic community – thus extending its networking beyond the original core members and beyond the relatively narrow limits that institutional academic conventions normally often pose to the size and diversity of academic research networks.
Nonetheless, for those who would like to know more about the academic side of our profile, here is a list of our members who joined are the network as early-career academics (though some have moved to more senior positions by now), and of more senior scholars who functioned as academic associates and provided advice and encouragement during the early stages of our project:
CORE MEMBERSHIP (dating largely from the early years of the project as a network of early-career academics)
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