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Matthew Unangst
Temple University
November 2015


9th floor, Gladfelter Hall
1115 West Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
USA
unangst@temple.edu

Education
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Ph.D. History, defended 31 August 2015

Dissertation: Building the Colonial Border Imaginary: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1895
Advisor: Jay Lockenour
Dissertation Committee: Benjamin Talton, Temple University; Kathleen Biddick, Temple University; Michelle Moyd, Indiana University

Teaching in Higher Education Certification, 2013
Passed comprehensive exams November 2011
Fields: Europe and the world, Modern Europe, Modern Africa

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ, SANTA CRUZ, CA
B.A. European History, with honors, June 2007

Publications
“Changes in German Travel Writing about East Africa, 1884-1891,” Colloquia Germanica 46, no. 2 (2013) – published in 2015. (In press).

Review of Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, by Elisabeth McMahon. Stichproben – Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien 27 (2014): 113-116.

Fellowships and Grants
German Historical Institute Conference Travel Grant, 2015

Temple University Senior Doctoral Fellowship, 2014-2015

Columbia University Library Research Travel Grant, 2013-2014

Okamoto Award, Temple University Department of History, 2013-2014

Travel Award, Temple University College of Liberal Arts, 2013, 2014

Hertog Program in Grand Strategy Research Grant, 2013

Temple University Department of History Travel Grant, 2012, 2013

Sergeant Major William F. Berger Prize Endowed Fellowship for War and Society
Temple University, 2009-2010

Four-year Temple University Teaching Assistantship, 2009-2013

Teaching Experience
As Instructor of Record:
Department of Humanities
University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Spring 2016
Course: Hitler and Nazi Germany

Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2016
Courses: History of Nazi Germany; Intermediate Writing Seminar in European History; Revolutionary Europe; European History through Film; Modern Europe; Turning Points in Human History: Modern World; Gender and World Societies

As Writing Instructor:
Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Spring 2011
Met with students in Junior-level writing seminars individually to work on their research papers.

As Teaching Assistant:
Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
2009-2012
Courses taught: War and Peace, Superpower America, Confronting Empire, World War Two
Supervising professors: Richard Immerman, Jay Lockenour, Harvey Neptune, Gregory J.W. Urwin, Vladislav Zubok

Conferences and Workshops
PAPERS PRESENTED

2015
"Drawing and Redrawing Internal Legal Borders in German East Africa, 1885-1895," African Studies Association Conference, San Diego, November 2015

"ASMEA and Changes in African Studies since September 11th, 2001," 9/11 and the Academy Conference, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA, November 2015

"Hinterland": A German Word Becomes International in East Africa," German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 2015

2014
"Reconstructing the Swahili Coast in the Wake of the Bushiri War," African Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, November 2014

"Changes in Form and Content of Reports of German Travel to East Africa,
1884–1895," German Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, September 2014

"Debating the Future of German Empire: The Bushiri War and Emin Pasha Expeditions, 1888-1890," German Historical Institute Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, Washington, DC, May 2014
Attendance sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

"Performing the Conquest of Africa: Theatricality in the German Emin Pasha and
Bushiri War Expeditions, 1889-1891," Stage and Performance – Theatricality in International History since 1500 conference, Berlin, Germany, April 2014
Attendance sponsored by the German Research Council

2013
"Intensive or Extensive Colonization: The Debate Over French and British Models of Rule in German East Africa, 1890-1894," African Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, November 2013

"Expeditionary Colonialisms in East Africa: The Hermann Wissmann and Emin Pasha Expeditions of 1889," German Studies Association Conference, Denver, October 2013

"Writing the Divide between East and Central Africa: German Accounts of the Bushiri Rebellion and the Emin Pascha Expedition of 1888-1890," Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa Conference, Bayreuth, Germany, June 2013
Attendance sponsored by Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth and Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig

2012
"Making East Africa African: The German Colonial Geography of the Swahili Coast," African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, December 2012

"Race and Slavery" Roundtable, African Scholar for a Day featuring Jonathon Glassman, Philadelphia, November 2012

Muslim and Traditional Space in German East Africa,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 2012

 

“Dreams of Yugoslavia in Africa: Sékou Touré’s and Julius Nyerere’s Regional Plans to Prevent ‘Balkanization,” James A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University, March 2012


2011
“Honkytonk Badonkadonk: The Cultural Significance of Hip-Hop Music in White
(Mostly) American Culture,” James A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University, March 2011

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, March 2012

COMMENTER
James A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015.

Academic Service
Temple University Graduate Student Association, Co-President 2012-2013, Business Manager 2011, Treasurer 2010-2011
James A. Barnes Club, Temple University Department of History Graduate Student Organization, Treasurer 2009-2010

Professional Memberships
African Studies Association, American Historical Association, German Studies Association,  Tanzanian Studies Association

Languages
German (fluent), French (good reading knowledge), Spanish (reading knowledge)

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