Dr. Clara Torrão Busin, MA
Phone: +43 512 507-44050
Email: Clara.Torrao-Busin[at]uibk.ac.at
Room no. 40627
Research interests
- Tyrol's global entanglements
- History of East Africa (Mozambique and Tanzania)
- Borderlands studies
- Transimperial history
- Colonial and postcolonial history
Migration and mobility
Studies and academic career
- since June 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher in the project Provincializing coloniality: A global history of 20th century Tyrol,Department of Conemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- 2021–2026 PhD in History at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Dissertation: Imperial Lines, Local Worlds: Competing Territorialities in the Making of the Tanzanian-Mozambican Border. Supervised by Catarina Madeira Santos and Hezron Kangalawe (University of Dar es Salaam)
- 2025–2026 Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz
- 2022–2023 Co-organizer of the doctoral seminar at the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAf, Paris), together with Mah Diawara, Mathias Garecht, Lola Mirti, and Mitiku Tesfaye
- January–August 2023 Visiting Researcher at CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- 2021–2024 PhD position (Contrat doctoral) at the EHESS, Paris
- 2018–2020 German – French Master’s programme in History at the EHESS, Paris, and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
- 2015–2018 Collège universitaire at Sciences Po Paris, Europe–Africa Programme, including an Erasmus year at the University of Lisbon
Excerpt
- with Castro Bastos, Felipe Barradas Correia, Kutafuta Maisha: Connections Between Agency and Structure in Makonde Migratory Labour from Mozambique to Tanzania (ca. 1907–1964). In: Esboços: histórias em contextos globais 31 (57), S. 237–256. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7976.2024.e98487.
- Review of: Holger Afflerbach, Sabine Mangold-Will, Ulf Morgenstern & Joachim Scholtyseck (Hg.), Die Berliner Afrikakonferenz 1884/1885. Impulse zu einem umstrittenen globalen Ereignis. Paderborn 2025. In: Francia-Recensio 2026/1. DOI: 10.11588/frrec.2026.1.115129.
duration June 2026 - May 2031
Postdoctoral Researcher
Memberships
- REDAfricas – Network for Studies on Portuguese-speaking African Countries
- Centre for Transimperial History
Scholarships
- Research scholarship from the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz (2025–2026)
- Bourse du mois, Maison française d’Oxford (2024)
- Travel grant from IFAS Johannesburg for a research stay in Mozambique (2023)
- Travel grant from IFRA Nairobi for a research stay in Tanzania (2023)
- Travel grant from LabEx Tepsis for research stays in Mozambique and Tanzania (2022)