Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther

kirsten.ruether@univie.ac.at

Professor for History and Societies in Africa at the Department of African Studies

Profile page University of Vienna

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Teaching (u:find)

Research areas:

• Polit., soc. & relig. transformation in Southern Africa, 19th-20th cent.
• History of christianisation and religious interaction, Southern Africa
• Global and entangled history, socio and cultural-historical, from the perspective of southern Africa
• Family-, kinship- and biographical research, South Africa-Germany, 19th-21st cent.
• Healing, medicine and popular culture in South Africa, 20th cent.
• Urban worlds, infrastructure and housing in late colonial/early independent Zambia, 20th century
• Empire, Religion and Photography