Voices and Roots

Yat Ho did his Bachelor's in Art and Education with major in English Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Then he moved to Germany and completed his Master's at the University of Bayreuth with excellent results. Currently he is doing his PhD at University of Duisburg-Essen in English Linguistics.

Mona Bieling studied linguistics and cultural studies as well as international history and politics in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel and Egypt. In her dissertation project “Landscape and Power in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1948” she researched the interconnections between environmental and colonial history. During her doctorate she was employed as a research and teaching assistant. She completed her doctorate as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Since September 2023 she has been a research assistant at the Professorship for the History of Knowledge of Modern Societies at the HSU. Her research interests include colonial and environmental history, the history of knowledge transfer, the history of Zionism and modern Israel and Palestine.