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Biography

1975-1982 Studies in Cologne and Seville - History and Hispanic Studies
1982 First state examination for teaching history and Spanish
1986 Doctorate at the University of Cologne
1986-1992 Research assistant in the Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne
1992 Habilitation
1992 Appointment as university professor at Bielefeld University
1996 - 2016 Member of the Board and Vice Chairwoman of the interdisciplinary "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Lateinamerikaforschung" - ADLAF (Chair from 2004 to 2006)
WS 2000 - WS 2022/23 University Professor at the University of Cologne and Head of the Iberian and Latin American Department of the Institute of History
2003 - 2022 President of the Centro Latinaméricano de Colonia (CLAC) and ASPLA
Since 2010 President and network coordinator of the Network Latinamerica
2014 - 2021 Speaker for the Global South Study Center Cologne
Since 2017 Co-Speaker for the Maria Sibylla merian centre: Conviviality-inequality in Latin America
2021 - 2023 Member of the Board of Directors for the Global South Study Center Cologne
Since SS 2023 Emerita at the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History