This Monday, September 2, PhD Student, Toke Kløve Junge will have his first day at Global Studies! Below you can read his personal presentation and get a short impression of his project:

My name is Toke Kløve Junge, and from the 1^st September 2024 I will be starting as a PhD student with the project "A House Moving Around the World: A Critical Cultural Geography of Shipboard Life in the Indian Ocean, ca. 830-1680". I hold an MA in International and Global History from Aarhus University, and a BA in History with a minor in Religious Studies also from Aarhus. My studies have mainly focused on religious interconnectivity in the Indian Ocean and the Global South between the 14^th and 20^th centuries, primarily with an eye on Islam and Hinduism. 

In my project, I will research the different dimensions of shipboard life in the pre-modern Indian Ocean using the theoretical apparatus of Critical Cultural Geography. I will be analyzing a variety of textual, pictorial and archaeological sources, to get a sense of how shipboard lives were ordered and how ships were construed as socio-political spaces in the Indian Ocean before the rise of European colonial powers in the 18^th and 19th centuries.

CONTACT INFO:

Office: 1461-623 (together with Phillip Stenmann Baun)
Email: toke@cas.au.dk
Teams: 8715 0429