Mag. Dr. Eric Burton
Assistant Professor
Tel.: +43 512 507-44026
Fax: +43 512 507-44099
Room 40618
Education and Work Experience
- Since 4/2019 Assistant Professor in Global History at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- 4/2019 Guest lecturer, University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana
- 2018-2019 Post-doc research fellow, Socialism goes global, University of Exeter
- 2017-2018 EEGA Leibniz Science Campus Guest researcher, University of Leipzig
- 2018 PhD in History, University of Vienna
- 2015-2019 Lecturer in African Studies and Development Studies, University of Vienna (with interruptions)
- 2014-2017 Pre-doc researcher in the project “Personal cooperation in development aid and socialist aid in the context of system competition”, Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna
- 2014 Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna
- 2013 Diploma (equivalent to MA) in Development Studies, University of Vienna
- 2011-2012 Term abroad, University of Dar es Salaam
Fields of Research and Teaching
- Global history
- East-South relations during the Cold War
- Decolonisation and liberation movements
- Socialisms and solidarities
- History of development
- African mobility during the Cold War
Professional Services
- Co-editor of historia.scribere
- Austrian Journal of Development Studies (JEP) (editorial committee)
- Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies (editorial committee)
- Book reviews / peer reviews for H-Diplo, Third World Quarterly, International History Review, H-Soz-Kult, H-Socialism, Austrian Journal of Development Studies (JEP), Vienna Journal of African Studies
Awards and Prizes
- Walter Markov Prize 2020 – PhD dissertation prize awarded by European Network in Universal and Global History
- Research fellowship Eastern Europe – Global Area (EEGA) Leibniz Science Campus guest researcher, University of Leipzig, 2017-2018
- Dissertation writing grant, University of Vienna, 2017
- Merit grant, University of Vienna, 2012/13
- Research grant for field work in Tanzania, University of Vienna, 2012
- Merit grant, University of Vienna, 2011
Memberships
- European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
- Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik
- Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC)
- Vereinigung Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker (VDH)
- African Studies Association Germany (VAD)
Selected Publications
- In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus. Tansania und die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der beiden deutschen Staaten, 1961-1990 (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg; Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte 49, 2021).
- Antikoloniale Solidaritäten im Konflikt: Panafrikanismus, Panarabismus und afroasiatische Beziehungen in Kairo, 1956-1963. In: Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies 21/40 (2021): 43-80.
- Sozialistische Globalisierung. Die Tagebücher der DDR-Freundschaftsbrigaden in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Together with Immanuel Harisch. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 17/3 (2020): 578-591.
- Navigating socialist encounters: Moorings and (dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Together with Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, and Marcia Schenck, Berlin/Boston (DeGruyter/Oldenbourg), forthcomig 2021 as volume 1 of the series “Africa in Global History“
- Decolonization, the Cold War and Africans’ routes to overseas education, 1957-1965. In: Journal of Global History Vol. 15, No. 1 (2020): 169-191.
- Hubs of decolonization. African liberation movements and Eastern connections in Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam. In: Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War “East”: Transnational Activism 1960-1990. Edited by Lena Dallywater, Helder A. Fonseca and Chris Saunders. Berlin (De Gruyter) 2019
- Diverging visions in revolutionary spaces: East German advisers and revolution from above in Zanzibar, 1964–1970. In: Between East and South: Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War. Edited by Anna Calori, Anne-Kristin Hartmetz, Bence Kocsev, James Mark and Jan Zofka. Berlin (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2019
- Von Revolution zu Reform: Transfers zwischen China und Tansanias »Afrikanischem Sozialismus« von anti-imperialistischer Solidarität bis Neoliberalismus. In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (2020): 121-138
- Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany. In: Cold War History. Vol 19, No. 1 (2019): 63-83
- Solidarität und ihre Grenzen bei den Brigaden der Freundschaft der FDJ. In: Globales Engagement im Kalten Krieg, Edited by Frank Bösch, Caroline Moine and Stefanie Senger. Göttingen (Wallstein) 2018
- Journeys of education and struggle: African mobility in times of decolonization and the Cold War. Special Issue of Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien 18, no. 34, 2018
- Socialisms in development. Special Issue of Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 33, no. 3, 2017
Projects
- Hubs of Decolonisation. Anti-imperial infrastructures, visions and mobilities in Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam, 1956-1966 (current project), Universität Innsbruck
- Socialism goes global, University of Exeter
- Bars, curtains and pipelines: Conjunctures of African mobility towards and beyond Eastern Europe during the Cold War, SFB 1199/EEGA, Universität Leipzig
- Personal cooperation in development aid and socialist aid in the context of system competition, University of Vienna