Dr. Albert Manke (he/his) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Göttingen (Germany) and currently a member of the research group “Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime.” His professional interests follow a globally entangled perspective on the histories of mobility and resistance in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. His areas of expertise include Latin American Studies, New Cold War History and Migration Studies with a special focus on power asymmetries, exclusion, racism, and agency.
Albert Manke studied philology, philosophy, and history in Cologne and Paris and holds a PhD in History from the University of Cologne. From 2017 to 2018 he was granted the first Tandem Fellowship in the History of Migration (with Dr. Lok Siu) at the University of California, Berkeley, as a fellow of the German Historical Institute Washington's Pacific Office. From 2019 to 2022, he became a research fellow at that same institution as a member of the Max Weber Foundation’s collaborative research project “Knowledge Unbound.” In both periods, he was also appointed as visiting scholar at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, where he conducted research on transnational migrant networks, migrants’ agency, and exclusion in a historical perspective. In Germany, he has worked as a researcher at Osnabrück University, at Bielefeld University, and at the University of Cologne, where he also served as principal investigator at the Global South Studies Center and co-directed the interdisciplinary Project of Excellence “Ethnicity as a Political Resource – Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.”
