My projects
Isabel Eiser
Welcome to my personal website
Welcome to my personal website
I am a certified project manager with experience as a scientific project coordinator and with research experience in co-creation, design anthropology, digital humanities, global history, media and communication research, as well as qualitative-quantitative data analysis. My PhD thesis was a digital analysis of strategies in public media over three centuries conducted at the research center Hamburg's (post-)colonial legacy in global history at the University of Hamburg. For this research I was supported for three years with a doctoral scholarship and travel reimburesement from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. I also worked as a scientific project coordinator and research assistant in the interdisciplinary BMBF joint project “D-WISE” at the University of Hamburg. As a lecturer, I offered a seminar on 'Discursive Struggles on (Post-)Colonial Legacies in the 21st century: Discourses on Restitution and the Benin Bronzes' at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History. In Frankfurt I gained extensive work experience in project management, exhibition design, cultural education, and as a consultant in transfer and public relations. I gained my Magister degree in ethnology and art education at the Goethe University Frankfurt with a focus on scientific communication, film, and exhibition design.
My PhD project was embedded in a German-Nigerian research project on the Benin Bronzes. It was located at the research center 'Hamburg's (post-)colonial legacy,' in the department of history, work area global history, at the University of Hamburg. The work aimed at a critical analysis of discourse strategies in media, (counter-)hegemonic struggles, and the development of discursive symbols. The PhD project as well as the archival research in Nigeria was funded by a three-year dissertation grant and travel grants by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. During my work in the D-WISE-project at the University of Hamburg, I extended my research interest to questions of co-creation, design thinking, human-computer-interaction, and digital anthropology.
My projects deal with critical media research, cultural education, public history, co-creation, and design anthropology.
In the context of my PhD research, I aim at transferring some of my research materials and findings to the public.
The PhD project "Becoming an Emblem. Form Colonial Propaganda to Decolonial Movement. A Discourse Analysis on the Benin Bronzes."
was conducted as a transnational and digital discourse analysis on the Benin Bronzes' process of iconization in mass media and culture.
This page is planned to offer an open access to a selection of archival materials and research results.
Find a list of 141 Nigerian newspapers accessible via Nigerian National Archives, Ibadan, here:
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The following interactive graph shows West African and Nigerian newspapers mentioning the Benin Bronzes, based on for this PhD conducted research in digital newspapers archives from the ULB Düsseldorf and readex/newsbank:
Feel free to reach out. I offer interviews, presentations, articles, and reviews among other things