Mathilde Ackermann-Koenigs

Mathilde Ackermann-Koenigs is a doctoral researcher and associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1288 “Practices of Comparison: Organizing and Changing the World” at Bielefeld University. She is affiliated with the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, specifically within the Department of History, contributing to the fields of 19th- and 20th-century history as well as global and interconnected history.

Her current research focuses on racist practices of comparison in the Caribbean (1791–1912) within the CRC subproject F01[A03] “(World) Orders and Future Concepts.”

Research Interests:

• Global and interconnected history
• Trans-Caribbean history
• Comparative historical methodology
• Colonial and post-colonial studies
• Historical constructions of race and power

As a member of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology she is engaged in interdisciplinary doctoral training, bridging historical analysis with comparative social theory.