Postdoc
Department of Historical Studies
University of the Western Cape
ZA
Cape Town
sophie.schasiepen@gmail.com
I currently work as postdoc in the 'Reconnecting 'Objects': Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums' project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. I am also the coordinator and researcher for the 'Action for Restitution to Africa' project, funded by the Open Society Foundations, at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape.
Schasiepen, Hella Sophie Charlotte. 2021. “Southern African Human Remains as Property: Physical Anthropology and the Production of Racial Capital in Austria.” (Unpublished PhD Thesis). University of the Western Cape.
“Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence.” History and Anthropology (2023): 1-21. (https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2023.2248158)
„Die ‚Lehrmittelsammlung’ von Dr. Rudolf Pöch an der Universität Wien. Anthropologie, Forensik und Provenienz“, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 1/2019, 15-27. (https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/ZfK/article/view/2406/2281)