Teaching

Empires and Encounters

Germany, 1890-1933

Race: Power and Difference in the Modern World

Citizenship, Violence and Race: Germans and Africans in Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters

Dissertation

Robbie Aitken

r.aitken@shu.ac.uk

I’m an Historian of Black Europe and Empire and I’ve been at SHU since 2010.

I’ve written widely on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945 and I’m currently working on the Black experience of Nazi Germany as well as post-war compensation claims made by Black victims.

I’m really interested in engaging with non-academic audiences such as schools, museums, artists and community groups and I’ve had the good fortune to work on public exhibition projects in Berlin as well as developing my exhibition which has been shown in the UK, Germany and Cameroon.