Peggy Piesche

Peggy Piesche, born and raised in the GDR, is a cultural studies and literary scholar. After many years of teaching in the Netherlands (University of Utrecht) and the USA (Vassar College and Hamilton College/NY), she worked at the Academy of Advanced African Studies (University of Bayreuth) until 2016 with a research focus on future concepts in Africa and the diaspora. Her research and teaching activities lie in the fields and respective interfaces of Black Feminist Studies and Critical Race Studies, Diaspora and Translocality, Performativity of Memory Cultures (Spatiality and Coloniality of Memories) and Whiteness Studies. She has published on racialisation and Black Images, colonial history and collective memory, Afrofuturism and African/Diasporic future plans.
Peggy Piesche is also a transcultural trainer for critical whiteness reflection in science, politics and society. She is a fellow member of ADEFRA e.V. (Black Women in Germany) and since 2016 Executive Board Member of ASWAD (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora).
From 2017 to 2019 she was an expert at the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Since 2019 Peggy Piesche has been working as an expert on Diversity, Intersectionality and Decolonization at the Federal Agency for Civic Education.