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PD Dr. Astrid Windus

University of Cologne

Institute of History
Iberian and Latin American Department
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-50923 Cologne
Germany

Contact:

E-Mail: a.windusSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de

Research topics

  • Global and transcultural history of knowledge and communication since the early modern period
  • Pre- and postcolonial cultural history of Latin America and the Atlantic World, History of colonial contact zones (Spanish and Portuguese empires, Philippines)
  • History of religion
  • "Black Atlantic" - Afro-Latin American History
  • Cultural studies and postcolonial theory, theory of history, visual and material history, history and anthropology
  • History didactics

Academic background

2020-2021

Substitute for the professorship for European Contemporary History at the University of Siegen

2019

Habilitation on the topic "Myths, Images, Artefacts. On the communication of religious knowledge in an Andean contact zone. Carabuco, 17th-18th century" at the University of Siegen and Venia Legendi in Modern and Contemporary History and History of Knowledge.

SuSe 2018

Substitute for the professorship for Non-European History at the Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

WS 2017/18

Research associate at the Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster

SuSe 2017

Substitute for the professorship for Non-European History at the Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

SuSe 2015

Substitute for the professorship of Iberian and Latin American History at the Institute of History, University of Cologne

WS 2014/15

Substitute for the professorship for Non-European History at the Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

WS 2013/14

Substitute for the professorship for Non-European History at the Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2009-2016

Head of the DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group "Text, Image, Performance: Change and Ambivalence of Cultural Orders in Colonial Contact Zones (Provincia de Charcas and Philippines, 17th-18th Centuries)", Department of History, University of Hamburg

2005-2009

Research associate at the department of History, University of Duisburg-Essen, Departments of Non-European History, Social and Economic History, Modern and Contemporary History, Didactics of History

1999-2003

Supplementary studies in "Teaching qualification in Science and continuing education" at the Interdisciplinary Center for Higher Education Didactics IZHD, University of Hamburg

1999-2003

PhD in Modern History on "Afro-Argentines and Nation. Ways of Constructing Afro-Argentine Identity in 19th-Century in Buenos Aires," University of Hamburg

1991-1997

Master's degree in Ancient American Languages and Cultures, Ethnology and Latin American Studies, University of Hamburg