Doctoral Researcher Lars Dickmann

Lars Dickmann holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Sociology and a Master’s degree in European History in Global Perspective, both from the University of Basel. After graduating, he worked for a year as an assistant at the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Basel. Before that, he was a student assistant in the SNSF project Printed Markets. The Basel Avisblatt 1729-1845 and wrote his Master’s thesis on Lost & Found advertisements as part of this project.

In his PhD project “Swiss Entomologists in the Dutch East Indies: Transnational Connections, Agronomic Engineering, and Plantation Science,” he looks at entomologists and their trajectories as proxy-imperial actors in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, as state agents, museologists, and biological engineers. By analyzing the role of applied entomology in the control of insect infestations, his project examines how enmity between humans and insects was constructed.