David Rentsch
David Rentsch holds a Master of Arts in African Studies from the University of Basel and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Bern. He has been a doctoral student at the Institute of History at the University of Bern since June 2021. As part of the SNSF Ambizione project "Disruptions and Anticipations of the Synthetic Age: Rubber, Science and Ressources", he is working on his dissertation project entitled "Yangambi and the Global Rubber Frontier: Science, Cash-Crops and social Change in the Belgian Congo, c. 1908-1960."
Titel des Promotionsvorhabens
“Yangambi and the Global Rubber Frontier: Science, Cash-Crops and Social Change in the Belgian Congo, c. 1908-1960.”
