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First Name
Sara E
Last Name
Pugach
Country
United States
State
CA California
Affiliation
Cal State LA
Website URL
https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/African-Students-in-East-Germany-1949-19752#:~:text=“This%20book%20brings%20into%20focus,racism%20alongside%20deeply%20felt%20affection.
Keywords
Modern Africa, Modern Germany, Global Germany, Colonialism in Africa, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, Migration, Cold War
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About Me

I am a Professor of modern African and European history at Cal State LA. My research looks at intersections between the history of Germany and the history of different African countries from the nineteenth century through the present. I am especially interested in how ideas about migration have evolved from 1945 through the present.

Recent Publications

Books

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975, University of Michigan Press, 2022

After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and its Legacies, co-edited with David Pizzo and Adam Blackler, Peter Lang, 2020

Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945, University of Michigan Press, 2012

Articles 

“African Voices in German Colonial Sources”, The German Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 4, Special Issue on Black German Studies, Fall 2022, pp. 437-439

“Agents of Dissent: African Student Organizations in the German Democratic Republic”, Africa, Volume 89, Supplement S1, January 2019, pp. S90-S108

“Eleven Nigerian Students in Cold War East Germany: Visions of Science, Modernity, and Decolonization,” The Journal of Contemporary History, first published December 11, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418803436

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Germany, Namibia, South Africa
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Germany, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Race