Wetzel, Johanna M., Dr.

Publikationen

Aufsätze (Peer-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M. (akzeptiert, voraussl. 2025) Youth Imaginaries in Frelimo’s Struggle for Liberation: The Rise and Fall of the Liga Juvenil da Frelimo (1963-1969). Journal of Southern African Studies.

Wetzel, Johanna. M. (2024). “Juventude, Avante!” Youth Perspectives on Independence and the Creation of the Organização da Juventude Moçambicana (1975–1978). Comparativ, 34 (3), 272-295. doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2024.03.04

Schenck, Marica & Johanna M. Wetzel (2022). Shifting the Means of (Knowledge) Production: Teaching Applied Oral History Methods in a Global Classroom. World History Connected, 19 (3). doi.org/10.13021/whc.v19i3.3327

Wetzel, Johanna M. & Marcia Schenck (2022). Liebe in Zeiten der Vertragsarbeit. Rassismus, Wissen und binationale Beziehungen in der DDR und Ostdeutschland, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 165+166 (1-2022), S. 31-55. doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v42i1.03

Sammelbandbeiträge (Peer-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M. & Thomas Prenning, (akzeptiert, voraussl. 2025) “Experiences with Racism in the German Democratic Republic, during Unification and in Post-Unification German.” In Kahn Michelle and Lauren Stokes (Hrsg.) Racism and Anti-Racism in Divided Germany, Cornell University Press.

Sammelbandbeiträge (Editor-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M., Kate Reed & Marcia C. Schenck (2023). “Writing with my professors”: Partnering beyond the Text in the Global History Dialogues Project. In Nimführ, Sara and Martina Blank (Hrsg.) Writing Together. Transcript Verlag. doi.org/10.14361/9783839463994

Rezensionen

Wetzel, Johanna M. ‘Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique: By Julie Soleil Archambault, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 160 Pp., £32.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-0-226-44757-5’. The Journal of Development Studies (2024): 1–2. doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2317647.

Wetzel, Johanna M. ‘Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short’. South African Historical Journal (15 March 2022): 1–4. doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2040580

Medien- und Wissenschaftskommunikation

“’Quando Era Jovem…’ – Towards an Intergenerational, Oral History of Youth in Maputo, Mozambique,” (April 2022), Historical Transactions, Royal Historical Society,blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/04/21/quando-era-jovem-towards-an-intergenerational-oral-history-of-youth-in-maputo-mozambique/

Ana Afelecina Chongo Valdo Daúde Pedro Congolo, Michael Jorge Juma, Reginaldo Samuel Taimo & Johanna M. Wetzel (Hrsg.). O Contributo da Tradição Oral para a História de Moçambique: Memórias de Jovens Engajados na Libertação e Construção do Estado Moçambicano,1962 – 1989. (2023)

Hintergrundinterview (21.12.2022) für das Radio Berlin Brandenburg, Deep Doku, Folge „Vatersuche in Mosambik – Sandras Papa war Vertragsarbeiter in der DDR.“ Gesendet 17.05.2023, www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/deep-doku/vatersuche-in-mosambik-sandras-papa-war-vertragsarbeiter-in-der-ddr/rbbkultur/12680861/

Vita

Akademische Laufbahn

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (seit 04/2025)
Universität Bremen, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Neuere und Neuste Geschichte
Projekttitel: „Transnational Youth Solidarities: the Free German Youth’s relations with the ‘newly decolonized states’ in Asia, Africa and Latin America (1964-1989)“

Ausbildung

DPhil in International Development (03/2025)
University of Oxford & Wolfson College (GB)
Dissertationstitel: „Revolutionary Youth in Mozambique: Socialist Discourses, Organizations, and Experiences among the Independence Generation (1964-1985)”
Doktormutter: Prof. Dr.Jocelyn Alexander

MPhil in Development Studies (07/2019)
University of Oxford & St Antony’s College

BA in International Relations (07/2017)
University of Groningen (NL), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, COL)

BA in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline (07/2017)
University of Groningen (NL), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, COL)

Drittmittel, Stipendien und Preise

Zentrale Forschungsförderung der Universität Bremen, PostDoc-Stelle Projektlinie A (2025-2028)
Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, Promotionsstipendium (2022-2024)
Royal Historical Society, Forschungszuschuss (2021)
Wolfson College, Forschungszuschuss (2021)
Queen Elizabeth House Bursary, Studiengebührenstipendium (2020-2022)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Master Studienstipendium für Graduierte aller Fächer (2018-2019)
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Master Studienstipendium (2017-2019)