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Karolin Wetjen has been Assistant Professor at Kassel University since 2019. After completing two master's degrees (with distinction) in Medieval and Modern History, Latin, and Education, she earned her doctorate (summa cum laude) in Modern History at Göttingen University in 2019 with a thesis on negotiations of Religion in East Africa at the end of the 19th century, which has recently been published. (Mission als theologisches Labor. Koloniale Aushandlungen des Religiösen in Ostafrika um 1900, Stuttgart 2020). She received grants from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften, and the DAAD. In 2017, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Modern History at the University of Göttingen.

Karolin Wetjen co-edited (with Linda Ratschiller) a volume on new approaches in mission history (Verflochtene Mission: Perspektiven auf eine neue Missionsgeschichte, Cologne 2018) and authored several articles on mission history and religion. Her research interests include the history of cultural entanglements with regards to religion, environmentalism, colonialism, power, and gender.