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Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany – January 2015 to Present

• - PhD candidacy in History of Technology on Circulation and Appropriation of Urban Technologies: Drainage and Traffic Technologies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1913-1999.

University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – September 2005 to August 2013

• - M.A. in History
  • Dissertation Topic: Health Implications of Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Uhehe: A Historical Perspective
• - B.A. in History and Archaeology

June 2022 to present: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the ERC Global HoT Project at TU Darmstadt.

November 2018 to present: Assistant Editor for Book Reviews and Publicity of Tanzania Zamani Journal of the University of Dar es Salaam and the Historical Association of Tanzania.

November 2018 to November 2021: Examinations Officer of the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam.

October 2018 – May 2022: Assistant Lecturer in History teaching Survey of World History of Science and Technology; Health and Diseases in Modern African History; and Population and Urban History of Tanzania.

January – June 2018: Scientific Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Institute of Technological History, TU Darmstadt, Germany.

October 2016 – February 2017: Co-instructor at TU Darmstadt of the course titled “Sources of African History” with official no: 02-04-0430-ü

October 2013 – December 2014: University of Dar es Salaam, Assistant Lecturer in History

- November 18-21, 2021: Presented the paper “Swala Bicycles: A Hubris Account from Tanzania” at the virtual annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at New Orleans, Louisiana

- November 1-3, 2018: Presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Historical Association of Tanzania. Title: “The Making of the Welfare State in Dar es Salaam”

- July 23-39, 2017: Presented a paper in 25th ICHST Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The title of the paper was: “Technology and Colonialism: Did the British Overrate their Technological Might in the Groundnut Scheme in Tanganyika, 1946-1961?”

- January 30-31, 2017: Participated in the Teaching in English to Non-native Speakers Workshop organized by and conducted at TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.

- December 1-3, 2016: Presented a paper in the 59th African Studies Association annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., USA. Title of the paper was: “Critiquing Postcoloniality? Towards an STS Perspective in African Urbanization”.

- June 22-25, 2016: Presented a paper in the Annual Meeting of the Society for History of Technology in Singapore titled “Drainage Infrastructures in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1891-1960: When Technological Innovation and Health Intersect”.

- May 9-10, 2016: Presented a paper in Graz 2016 STS Annual Conference in Graz, Austria titled “Public Transport Infrastructures and Services in Dar es Salaam: Placing Users into Urban Transport Narratives?”

- March 30, 2016: Attended “The Worlds of Cult: Comparison of European and African Witchcraft Cults” at Queen Mary University of London, UK, organized by Dr. Reuben Loffman.

- December 14-16, 2015: Participated in “Mediation Theory and Philosophy of Technology” Workshop prepared by University of Twente, Netherlands.

- March 9-15, 2015: Participated in “Interdisciplinary PhD Training Week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” organized by TU Berlin, TU Darmstadt, Ardhi University and University of Dar es Salaam.

Edward, Frank, „Planned Vulnerabilities? Street Flooding and Drainage Infrastructure in Colonial Dar es Salaam“,HoST: Journal of History of Science and Technology 16 (1), 2022: 29-47; link to journal

- Book review: “Liberation and Technology: Development Possibilities in Pursuing Technological Autonomy by Gussai Sheikheldin” in Tanzania Zamani 12 (2) (2020), pp.181-186.

- with Mikael Hård, “Maintaining the local Empire: The Public Works Department in Dar es Salaam, 1920–60”. The Journal of Transport History. DOI: 10.1177/0022526619883457

- Book review: “Amy S. Patterson, Africa and Global Health Governance: Domestic Politics and International Structures .Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2018”. Medical History 63 (2) (2019), pp.242-244. DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2019.22

- Book review: “What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga”. Technology and Culture 59 (3) (2018), pp.815-816. DOI: 10.1353/tech.2018.0083

- Book review: “Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni, Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2013”. Tanzania Zamani IX (2) (2017), pp.174-178.

- Book review: “Casper Andersen, British Engineers and Africa, 1875-1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011. African Studies Review 59 (3) (December 2016), pp.253-254. DOI: 10.1017/asr.2016.108

- “Health Implications of Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Uhehe: A Historical Perspective”. Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam, 2013.

- June 2017: Awarded ICOHTEC Travel Grant to attend the 25th ICHST Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 23-29, 2017.

- November 2016: HBS Travel Grant to attend the 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington, D.C., USA, Dec.1-3, 2016.

- April 2016: SHOT Travel Grant to attend the SHOT Annual Meeting in Singapore 22-25 June, 2016.

- February, 2016: IPD4all Research Grant by the Graduate School for Urban Studies at TU Darmstadt for a Two-week Archival Research in London, UK.

- Jan. 2015-Dec. 2017: Hans-Böckler Stiftung stipend scholarship for PhD studies at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, from January 2015 to December 2017.

- February, 2009: GeSoMo GEGA-NUFU Scholarship for M.A. History at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

- History of Technology and Urbanization in Africa.