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Sarujan Theivendran is a doctoral student at the Chair of History of the Modern World at ETH Zurich, working on a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project titled 'Engineering Empires Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism' from c. 1860 to 1980. His research focuses on global entanglements and disciplinary transformations within geology, particularly looking at the careers of geologists Albert Heim and his son Arnold Heim, exploring their roles in resource extraction during the colonial period. Sarujan holds an M.A. in Contemporary History from the University of Fribourg/Freiburg, where his master's thesis focused on Swiss development aid to Sri Lanka from 1961 to 1982. His academic interests include the history of knowledge, science, empire, postcolonial and decolonial theories, environmental history, and modern history across the Mašriq and South-East Asia.
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