Marie Huber

Dr. Marie Huber is a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin's Department of Social and Economic History. She specializes in global economic history with a focus on postcolonial Africa, examining transnational knowledge circulation, economic expectations, and development paradigms. Her current projects include a DFG-funded study on aviation history (Air Afrique) and research on German trade relations with Africa/Asia under the Collaborative Research Center 'Dynamics of Security'.

Her research explores:

• Transnational knowledge networks in economic development
• Postcolonial state enterprises and aviation infrastructure
• UNESCO heritage politics and cultural tourism
• Decolonization impacts on business practices
• Racial discourses in economic modernization

Publications since 2022 predominantly analyze aviation in decolonizing Africa, state-owned enterprises, heritage tourism development, and geopolitical imaginaries. Her work integrates business history with postcolonial theory across African contexts.

She founded the #metoohistory initiative addressing power abuse in academia and established Perspektiven.Blog documenting career transitions for humanities scholars. She also co-leads the DFG-funded research network '(Post-)Colonial Business History'.