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.windus(at)uni-koeln(dot)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 |