Wetzel, Johanna M., Dr.

Publikationen

Editorial Work

Wetzel, Johanna M., Alba Martín Luque & Jocelyn Alexander (im Erscheinen 2027). Dealing in Solidarity: Liberation Movements’ Perspectives on Transnational and International Support and Aid. Journal of Southern African Studies.

Dissertation

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2025). Revolutionary Youth in Mozambique: Socialist Discourses, Organizations, and Experiences among the Independence Generation (1964–1985). PhD thesis, University of Oxford. DOI: 10.5287/ora-yraqoaoaj.

Zeitschriftenartikel (Peer-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M., Alba Martín Luque & Jocelyn Alexander (im Erscheinen 2027). “Introduction to Special Issue: ‘Dealing in Solidarity’: Liberation Movements’ Perspectives on Transnational and International Support and Aid.” Journal of Southern African Studies.

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2025). “From the Soviet Komsomol to the Battlefields of Mozambican Liberation: Transnational Ideas and the Question of the Frelimo Youth League, 1963–1969.” Journal of Southern African Studies 51 (6): 759–776. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2026.2670944.

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2024). “‘Juventude, Avante!’ Youth Perspectives on Independence and the Creation of the Organização da Juventude Moçambicana (1975–1978).” Comparativ 34 (3): 272–295. DOI: 10.26014/j.comp.2024.03.04.

Wetzel, Johanna M. & Marcia C. Schenck (2022). “Liebe in Zeiten der Vertragsarbeit. Rassismus, Wissen und binationale Beziehungen in der DDR und Ostdeutschland.” PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur 42 (165–166): 31–55. DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v42i1.03.

Schenck, Maria C. & Johanna M. Wetzel (2022). “Shifting the Means of (Knowledge) Production: Teaching Applied Oral History Methods in a Global Classroom.” World History Connected 19 (3): 1–39. DOI: 10.13021/whc.v19i3.3327.

Buchkapitel (Peer-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M. & Thomas Prennig (2026). “And Yet Again, I Am the Epitome of What Is Not Possible for Her”: Perspectives from “Ossis of Color” on the Changing Nature of Racism in (East) Germany, 1970s–2000s. In Michelle L. Kahn & Lauren Stokes (eds.), Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany, 254–279. Cornell University Press. DOI: 10.7591/jj.38574941

Buchkapitel (Editor-Reviewed)

Wetzel, Johanna M., Marcia C. Schenck & Kate Reed (2023). “‘Writing with my professors’: Contesting the boundaries of the field in the Global History Dialogues Project.” In Martina Blank & Sarah Nimführ (eds.), Writing Together: Kollaboratives Schreiben mit Personen aus dem Feld, 31–54. transcript. DOI: 10.14361/9783839463994-002.

Buchrezensionen

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2026). Review of Benedito Luís Machava, The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990. H-Net Reviews. networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20161256/wetzel-machava-morality-revolution-reeducation-campus-and-politics

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2024). Review of Julie Soleil Archambault, Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique. The Journal of Development Studies 60 (9): 1491–1492. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2024.2317647.

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2022). Review of Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman, Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short. South African Historical Journal 74 (1): 189–193. DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2040580.

Wissenschaftskommunikation

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2025). “Tagungsbericht: HT 2025: Reimagining Global History – Doing History Globally: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Australia.”  H-Soz-Kult. www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-159356.

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2022). “‘Quando Era Jovem…’ – Towards an Intergenerational, Oral History of Youth in Maputo, Mozambique.” Historical Transactions: Blog of the Royal Historical Society. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/04/21/quando-era-jovem-towards-an-intergenerational-oral-history-of-youth-in-maputo-mozambique/.

Chongo, Ana Afelecina, Valdo Daúde Pedro Congolo, Michael Jorge Juma, Reginaldo Samuel Taimo & Johanna M. Wetzel (eds.) (2023). O Contributo da Tradição Oral para a História de Moçambique: Memórias de Jovens Engajados na Libertação e Construção do Estado Moçambicano, 1962–1989. Self-published.

Medienkommunikation

Wetzel, Johanna M. (2023). Wissenschaftliche Beratung/Hintergrundinterview für Clara Neubert, “Vatersuche in Mosambik – Sandras Papa war Vertragsarbeiter in der DDR”, Deep Doku, rbb. www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:5073e530631f1c1d/

Vita

Akademische Laufbahn

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (seit 04/2025)
Universität Bremen, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
Projekttitel: „Transnational Youth Solidarities: the Free German Youth’s relations with the ‘newly decolonized states’ in Asia, Africa and Latin America (1964-1989)“

Ausbildung

DPhil in International Development (03/2025)
University of Oxford & Wolfson College (GB)
Dissertationstitel: „Revolutionary Youth in Mozambique: Socialist Discourses, Organizations, and Experiences among the Independence Generation (1964-1985)”
Doktormutter: Prof. Dr.Jocelyn Alexander

MPhil in Development Studies (07/2019)
University of Oxford & St Antony’s College

BA in International Relations (07/2017)
University of Groningen (NL), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, COL)

BA in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline (07/2017)
University of Groningen (NL), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, COL)

Drittmittel, Stipendien und Preise

Zentrale Forschungsförderung der Universität Bremen, PostDoc-Stelle Projektlinie A (2025-2028)
Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, Promotionsstipendium (2022-2024)
Royal Historical Society, Forschungszuschuss (2021)
Wolfson College, Forschungszuschuss (2021)
Queen Elizabeth House Bursary, Studiengebührenstipendium (2020-2022)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Master Studienstipendium für Graduierte aller Fächer (2018-2019)
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Master Studienstipendium (2017-2019)