Anandita Bajpai

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Dr. Anandita Bajpai is CRAFTE's principal investigator and Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. As a historian of the Cold War, her research focuses on international broadcasting radio stations and their listening publics in India. She was previously Lecturer at the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, at Humboldt University, Berlin (2017-20) and a post-doctoral fellow in the Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989 (MIDA) project (2014-17) funded by the German Research Council . She pursued her PhD at Leipzig University  (2010-14) and holds an MA Degree in Global Studies, pursued at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. 

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Email: Anandita.Bajpai @ zmo.de

Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino

Dr. Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino is an International Relations scholar focusing on peace, conflict, and security. After studying Political Science, International Law, and Global Studies (University of Münster, IEP Lyon, Roskilde University, and Leipzig University), she was a doctoral researcher at the collaborative research center "Dynamics of Security" / Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, where she also did her PhD. Before joining ZMO, she was a lecturer at the Chair for Sociology of Africa and a Principal Investigator in the Hierarchies Network at the University of Bayreuth.

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Email: Maria.Ketzmerick @ zmo.de

Patrycja Komor

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​Patrycja Komor works as a student assistant for the project. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Hamburg. Currently, she is a Master’s student in Social and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on visual anthropology, anthropology of emotions and philosophical anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Her Master’s thesis is a collaborative visual project, which explores creative ways of expressing vulnerability.

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Email: Patrycja.Komor @ zmo.de

Paul Perschke

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Paul Perschke is CRAFTE's database coordinator and responsible for setting up the project's database comprising of African and Asian actors' oral testimonies, as well as grey literature, photographs, letters and memorabilia from private collections. Since December 2023, he has been a documentalist at  IRS's Scientific Collections on the Building and Planning History of the GDR. He is an urban historian. Following his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Law at the University of Trier, Paul Perschke completed a Master of Arts in Historical Urban Studies at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin.

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Email: Paul.Perschke @ leibniz-irs.de

Nico Putz

Nico Putz is a Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, and PhD candidate at the History Department of the University of Potsdam . Previously, he was coordinator of the Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989 (MIDA) project, funded by the German Research Council, at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. He studied Area Studies Asia/Africa and Modern South and Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, and History, Film Studies, and English Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research focuses on Indo-German entangled history, the political Left in India, and the Cold War global students’ movement.

Email: nico.putz @ zzf-potsdam.de

Tamalika Roy

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Tamalika Roy is a doctoral candidate in the CRAFTE project based at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. Her research project explores women’s internationalist networks, specifically focusing on Afro-Asian solidarities in the Cold War years. She holds a Bachelor’s and a Master's degree in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She also has an M.Phil in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University.

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Email: Tamalika.Roy @ zmo.de

​Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, New Delhi)

Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS, Erkner)

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF, Potsdam)

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List of Principal Investigators at Partner Institutes (in alphabetical order, see below)

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​Christoph Bernhardt

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bernhardt is Senior Fellow at the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archive". At the same time he is an adjunct Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. After studying History and German Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin he was an assistant professor at the Historical Institute of the Technische Universität Berlin (1994-1998) and earned his PhD in 1995 (published as “Bauplatz Groß Berlin”, 1998).

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Email: Christoph.Bernhardt @ leibniz-irs.de

Frank Bösch

Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch is Director of the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam and Full Professor of 20th Century German and European History at the University of Potsdam. Bösch has published widely on history since the late 19th century. His current research focuses on recent German contemporary history and its global connections.

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Email: boesch @ zzf-potsdam.de

Bishnupriya Dutt

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Bishnupriya Dutt is Professor of Theatre and Performance studies, in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Her research areas include politics and theatre, feminist readings of Indian theatre, contemporary performance practices and popular culture. She has led a number of international project collaborations with University of Warwick, Freie Universitat, Berlin and University of Cologne. She was Distinguished Fellow of Global Literary Studies at FU, Berlin in 2023 and currently Leverhulme Professor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is President of the International Federation for Theatre Research. She has been involved in active theatre since the 1960s as performer& director.

Email: duttbishnupriya@gmail.com

Rita Gudermann

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Dr. Rita Gudermann is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) since January 2020. She completed her doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin at the Chair of Economic and Social History in the Department of Economics on the topic of "Agricultural meliorations in Brandenburg and Westphalia in the 19th century". She then worked for many years as a research assistant at the economic history institutes of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Email: rita.gudermann @ leibniz-irs.de

Afro-Asian Futures Past (Andrew W. Mellon Project)

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Afro-Asian Futures Past is a collaborative research program between the Depart​ment of English at the American University of Beirut, the Department of Sociology a​nd Criminology at Howard University, the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana, the ​Department of Sociology at Cape Town University and the Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand​​. It is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation​​.​​ 

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