Mackenthun, Gesa

Gesa Mackenthun is a professor of American studies at Universität Rostock. She initiated the DFG graduate school Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship. Her books include Embattled Excavations. Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past (2021), Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), Fictions of the Black Atlantic (2004), and the co-edited volume Decolonizing ›Prehistory‹. Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (with Christen Mucher, 2021).