Sarah Van Beurden
Visiting Scholar (2016–2017)
PhD, Associate Professor, Ohio State University
August 1, 2015–July 31, 2016; affiliate September 1, 2014–August 31, 2016
Sarah Van Beurden is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University, where she teaches African history. She received her BA from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously held fellowships at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas in Austin and the Centre for Global Cooperation research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her first book, Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture will appear in the "New African Histories" Series at the Ohio University Press.
Projects
Selected Publications
Van Beurden, Sarah (2024). “Kishikishi: Belgian Congo, 1956.” In The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, ed. S. Blacker, E. Brownell, A. Nag, M. Schlünder, S. Van Beurden, and H. R. Verran, 144–151. New York, NY: Fordham University…
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Blacker, Sarah, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, and Helen R. Verran, eds. (2024). The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
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Van Beurden, Sarah (2015). Authentically African : arts and the transnational politics of Congolese culture. New African histories. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
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Van Beurden, Sarah (2015). “Restitution or cooperation? Competing visions of post-colonial cultural development in Africa.” Global Cooperation Research Papers 12: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-12.
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