Samuël Coghe is Associate Professor in African and Global History at Ghent University. He holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence (2014) and has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, University of Gießen and Freie Universität Berlin. He also was Interim Chair of African History at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
His works focuses on the history of colonialism in Africa from transimperial and global perspectives and with a particular focus on socio-economic history and the history of science/knowledge. More particularly, his research has dealt with the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, colonial population politics and the history of medicine in Africa. His current research focuses on the commodification of cattle in Central and Southern Africa from a global perspective. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant CATTLEFRONTIERS – (Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s (2023-2028).
His recent publications include Population Politics in the Tropics. Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola (CUP 2022) and ‘A New Pastoral Frontier. Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945-1960’, Environmental History 27,4 (2022): 692-721.
