Eva Bischoff

Eva Bischoff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International History at the University of Trier, Germany. She holds a Venia Legendi in Modern and Contemporary History and has been affiliated with the university since 2011, where she teaches Global History, British/German Imperial History, and Gender History.

• PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (2009)
• Habilitation from University of Trier (2018)

Her research spans interdisciplinary themes of Settler Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Gender and Body History, and Global Colonial Histories. She has authored monographs such as Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia (2020) and Kannibale-Werden (2011).

Recent publications focus on environmental history (2024), Quaker interventions (2018), and colonial biopolitics (2016). She co-edits journals and contributes to interdisciplinary networks like IRTG Diversity and TRANSMARE.

Supervised theses explore topics like Quaker humanitarianism, German colonialism, and Indigenous Australian identity. Her work intersects with ecocriticism, maritime history, and transnational colonial analysis.