Marine Fiedler graduated in History at Sciences Po in 2014. She subsequently completed a PhD degree at the Universität Bern and Sciences Po in 2020 thanks to a doctoral contract at the Universität Bern and a PhD scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Her PhD research analysed the translocal experiences of a German merchants’ family under the prism of a social and cultural approach of the globalisation processes of the 19th century. This work was concluded in 2022 with the publication of her thesis in Germany. After experiences as research fellow at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Jena) and as teaching assistant at the Luiss Guido Carli (Rome), she is currently preparing a new postdoctoral project, which will benefit from a research grant of the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom).

Marine Fiedler’s current research aims at studying the presence of former colonial experts within the personnel of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization during the postwar years (approximately 1940s-1960s). Her project wants to examine the permeability of this United Nations specialized agency to colonial knowledge within the context of the transnational circulation of colonial experts. This work should thus not only open new perspectives on the history of the FAO but also on the transnational circulation of colonial experts and knowledge as well as its consequences on the politics of development of the United Nations in the second half of the 20th century. The project will also take into account longer processes of production and circulation of knowledge as well of the history of development, in particular in the colonial context. This project is being elaborated in close collaboration with Prof. Jakob Vogel in the continuity of his own research and of his cooperation with the University of Oxford on the history of expertise and sustainable development.

PhD in history, double degree at the Universität Bern and Sciences Po graduated with highest honours (“summa cum laude”)

PhD thesis “Von Hamburg nach Singapur: Translokale Erfahrungen einer Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie in Zeiten der Globalisierung (1765–1914)”, under the supervision of Kim Siebenhüner,  Jakob Vogel and Christian Windler 

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: “Das Große im Kleinen. Zur Mikrogeschichte des Globalen in der Frühen Neuzeit” (seminar on global microhistory for bachelor and master students, winter semester 2020/2021)

• Universität Bern – Philosophisch-historische Fakultät
  Award of the Faculty of Humanities for the best PhD thesis of the academic year (october 2021)
   
• Société des Amis de l’Institut Historique Allemand de Paris (SAIHA)
  French-German history prize for master theses (may 2015)

• Von Hamburg nach Singapur: Translokale Erfahrungen einer Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie in Zeiten der Globalisierung (1765-1914), Böhlau, Cologne, 2022.
   
• Auf den Fersen der Briten. Handelsvertragsprojekt eines Konsuls der drei Hansestädte mit Siam für eine hanseatische Expansion in Südostasien (1856), Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2022), https://www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fdae-98963.  
   
• Patriotes de la Porte du Monde. L’identité politique d‘une famille de négociants entre Hambourg et Bordeaux (1789-1842), Francia Forschungen zur Westeuropäischen Geschichte, Vol.  43 (2016), 161-183.