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I studied Latin American Studies in Cologne, Lisbon and Mexico-City. I hold a Phd in Anthropology of the Americas by the University of Bonn. From 2010 – 2013 I was the Managing Director of the Research Network for Latin America “Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging”. Since 2014 I am Senior Researcher at the Department for Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne working on a post-doc project funded by the German Resarch Association (DFG). I am principal investigator at the “Global South Studies Center” and member of the executive board of the German Association of Research about Latin America (ADLAF) as well as of the Junior Faculty Club at the University of Cologne. I have two children.

Recent Publications

Monographs

2013: Contactos exteriores del Estado Tarasco. Influencias desde dentro y fuera de Mesoamérica. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán.

(A previous version of the manuscript i.e. the Phd thesis is available online at urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-26262; http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2011/2626/2626.htm, 2011).

2009: Die “Breve relación” des Pedro Ponce de León. Ein unbekannter Autor und sein Bericht über religiöse Praktiken in Zentralmexiko, Bonn: BAS / Shaker Verlag.

Editorial work

In preparation: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Cruz Lira, Lina Mercedes; Fuentes Barragán, Antonio (eds.): De ingas y mandingas. Honor y mestizaje en perspectiva familiar en los mundos americanos. Edited together with Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira and Antonio Fuentes Barragán.

2016: Continuidades y discontinuidades: El Michoacán antiguo desde el surgimiento del Estado tarasco hasta la época colonial, Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán. Edited together with Hans Roskamp.

2015: Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript. Edited together with the UoC Forum Ethnicity as a Political Resource.

2011: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging. Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 1). Edited together with Nelly Castro, Lara Jüssen and Eva Youkhana.

2007: China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag, Berlin (WVB) (Lateinamerika im Fokus IV). Edited together with Philipp Kauppert and Sophie Müller.

Articles in Edited Volumes and Journals

Manuscript completed: “Laboríos and vagos. Migrants negotiating tributary categories in colonial Michoacán”, submitted to: Verbum et lingua (Dossier “Migration and cultural identity in Mexico”, coordinated by PhD Adrián Herrera and Florian Homann)

Manuscript completed: “Ascendencia ‘mixta’ y categoría fiscal. Estrategias de peticionarios cajamarquinos y michoacanos, siglos XVII-XIX.” In: Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira y Antonio Fuentes Barragán (eds.): De ingas y mandingas. Honor y mestizaje en perspectiva familiar en los mundos americanos.

Forthcoming: Translocal agency in colonial societies. Categorizing and negotiating belonging of indigenous migrants in New Spain and Peru. To be published in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft. (Dossier “Migration, Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit”, coordinated by PhD Anne Friedrichs.) Accepted February 2018.

Forthcoming: “Die Indigenen als Teil der Kolonialgesellschaft“. In: Dürr, Eveline; Kammler, Henry (Ed.): Einführung in die Ethnologie Mesoamerikas. Münster et.al.: Waxmann-Verlag, p. 162-172.

2017:” Indigenous migrants negotiating belonging. Peticiones de cambio de fuero in Cajamarca, Peru, 17th-18th century.” In Colonial Latin American Review 26 (4), pp. 483–508. DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233. Available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233, checked on 08/03/2018.

2017: “Tributgesetzgebung und ihre Umsetzung in den Vizekönigreichen Peru und Neuspanien im Vergleich“. In Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 54 (1), pp. 211–257. Available online at https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ojs3/index.php/jbla/article/view/25/13, checked on 01/08/2017.

2016: “Identidades y pertenencias en el Michoacán antiguo antes y después de la conquista”. In: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Roskamp, Hans (Ed.): Continuidades y discontinuidades: El Michoacán antiguo desde el surgimiento del Estado tarasco hasta la época colonial, Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán.

2015: “Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods,” in: University of Cologne Forum Ethnicity as a Political Resource (Ed.): Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 171-181.

2013: “Social categorisations in the Tarascan State. Debates about the existence of Ethnicity in Prehispanic West Mexico” In: Célleri, Daniela; Schwarz, Tobias; Wittger, Bea (Ed.): Interdependencies of Social Categorisations. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 2), pp. 265-288.

2013: Stichwort „Mesoamerika“ in: Hensel, Silke; Potthast, Barbara (Ed.): Das Lateinamerika Lexikon, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, pp. 216-217.

2011: “Introduction”, together with Nelly Castro, Lara Jüssen and Eva Youkhana, in: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Castro, Nelly; Jüssen, Lara; Youkhana, Eva (Ed.): Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging. Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 1). pp. 11-34.

2009: “Außenbeziehungen der Tarasken“, in: AmerIndian Research, Vol. 3, Nr. 13, pp. 157-165.

2007: “Die Beziehungen zwischen China und Lateinamerika von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag“, together with Philipp Kauppert, in: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Kauppert, Philipp; Müller, Sophie (Ed.): China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag, Berlin (WVB). pp. 15-38.

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Country Focus

Mexico, Peru

Expertise by Geography

Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Economic History, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Race