Frank Gerits

Frank Gerits is an Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University and a research fellow at the International Studies Group of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.He has held positions at New York University (2015), the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa (2016) and the University of Amsterdam (2017). In 2020, 'Visions of African Unity', a volume he edited together with Matteo Grilli was published. His monograph, 'The Ideological Scramble in Africa: How the Search for Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order (1945-1966)', was be published with Cornell University Press in 2023. He is currently working on two projects: "Moral Empire: Belgian colonialism and decolonisation 1830-2030" and "Climate Change: A Global History".