Keese, Alexander

LC control no.	no2008003680
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Keese, Alexander *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Germany
Associated place	Portugal Switzerland France Great Britain Senegal Suriname Brazil
Birth date	1977-08-17
Field of activity	Decolonization--Africa--History France--Colonies--History Portugal--Colonies--History Forced labor--History
Affiliation	Université de Genève. Département d'histoire générale Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Universidade do Porto. Centro de Estudos Africanos Universität Freiburg im Breisgau Universität Bern University of Portsmouth. Centre for European and International Studies Research École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Profession or occupation	Historians History teachers
Found in	Living with ambiguity: integrating an African elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61, 2007: t.p. (Alexander Keese) Ethnicity and the long-term perspective, c2010: t.p. (Alexander Keese) p. 214 (asst. professor, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Univ. of Porto; currently researching group identity among ethnic groups in West Africa) Travail forcé et mobilisation de la mian-d'oeuvre au Sénégal, 2019: title page (préface d'Alexander KEESE) page 15 (Alexander Keese, Université de Genève) Université de Genève website, Département d'histoire générale, Enseignants, viewed April 11, 2019 (M. [monsieur] Alexander KEESE; professeur boursier FNS [Fonds National Suisse], since 2015, after having directed the research group ForcedLabourAfrica, at Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (2010-2011), then at Université Humboldt de Berlin (2011-2015); doctoral thesis in modern and contemporary history 2004, Université de Fribourg-en-Brisgau; academic habilitation 2010, Université de Berne; invited researcher at Centre of European and International Studies and Research (CEISR), University of Portsmouth, UK, and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS); specialist in comparative history of decolonization in West and Central Africa, the history of forced labor and ethnic mobilizations in the context of conflicts; he is also interested in several global themes, particularly global history of unfree labor and a comparative perspectives on plantation systems (African and non-African, has done research in Suriname and Brazil) linked CV (date of birth 17 August 1977; nationality: German; native language German, fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, moderate Wolof)
Associated language	eng fre