Melanie Boehi

Experience

• 2020–present
  SNSF Postdoc.Mobility fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation
• 2022–present
  Postdoctoral fellow, Université de Lausanne
• 2018–2020
  SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation
• 2018–2018
  Lecturer, University of Basel
• 2012–2018
  PhD student, University of Basel
• 2017–2017
  Lecturer, University of Basel
• 2017–2017
  Co-editor A* Magazine, University of Basel

Education

• 2018 
  University of Basel, PhD
• 2011 
  University of the Western Cape, MA

Publications

• 2018
  Multispecies histories of South African imperial formations in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Uriel Orlow and Shela Sheikh (eds.), Theatrum Botanicum (Berlin: Sternberg Press 2018), 81-87.
• 2016
  The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa, co-edited with Maano Ramutsindela and Giorgio Miescher ,
• 2016
  “‘Flowers are South Africa’s silent ambassadors’: flower shows and botanical diplomacy in South Africa, Maano Ramutsindela, Giorgio Miescher and Melanie Boehi (eds.), The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2016), 149-176.
• 2015
  Who cut down Margaret Thatcher’s tree?, Veit Arlt, Stephanie Bishop and Pascal Schmid (eds.), Explorations in African History: Reading Patrick Harries (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2015), 71-74

Grants and Contracts

• 2020
  SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Swiss National Science Foundation

• 2018
  SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Swiss National Science Foundation