Max Hufschmidt
Doktorand
Assistent
Geschichte Afrikas
Max Hufschmidt received his bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the Universities of Basel and Lucerne and a master's degree in European Global Studies from the University of Basel's Institute for European Global Studies. He currently holds a doctoral research assistant’s position at the University of Basel’s chair of African History. His doctoral research engages with the history of the health sector of Lesotho in the second half of the twentieth century with a focus on catholic mission hospitals, and examines notions of health and healing, as well as the long trajectory of independence of catholic health institutions.
His further research interests concern labour history of Southern Africa, the history of occupational health in the region, and the history of Asbestos mining.
Colonial and postcolonial history of Southern Africa, medical history, missionary history, labour history, history of occupational health
Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH)
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte (SSG)
Swiss Society for African Studie (SSAS)
Collaborative Research Group African History, Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (CRG African History)