About Valeska Huber

Valeska Huber is leading the research group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century at the Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin. In her research, she focuses on communication in various forms, from migration and mobility to epidemics and international health regimes, and, more recently, the politics of mass communication in the twentieth century (with a specific interest in education and language). She is the author of Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor with Jürgen Osterhammel of Global Publics: Their Power and Their Limits, 1870–1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020).