Fields of Expertise
Biography
since 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne
2018-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher at the CRC 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy”, Project B02 “Emergence, expansion, and transformation of the welfare state in the Cono Sur in exchange with Southern Europe”, University of Bremen
2016-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Latin American History, University of Bremen (Temporary Position for Postdocs, Central Research Development Fund, University of Bremen)
2015 Ph.D. University of Bremen. Title of the thesis: Bevölkerung, Fertilität und Familienplanung in Kolumbien zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges: Eine transnationale Wissensgeschichte (Population, Fertility, and Family Planning in Colombia during the Cold War: A Transnational History of Knowledge)
2015 – 2016: Lecturer at the Department for Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne
2011-2015: Member of the Scientific Network „Population, Knowledge, Order, Transformation: Demography and Politics in the Twentieth Century in Global Perspective“, funded by the DFG
2009-2015: Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Latin American History, University of Bremen
2003-2009: Diploma in Area Studies Latin America at the University of Cologne and the Universidad de Oviedo. Subjects: Iberian- and Latin American History, Anglo-American History, Political Science and Spanish
Diploma Thesis: “This is an American History” – Spanish Civil War Monuments and Politics of Commemoration in the United States
Member of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD), the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA), the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF), the ADLAF working group „Latin American History in Global Perspectives“, and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Bibliography
Books:
* Bevölkerung, Fertilität und Familienplanung in Kolumbien. Eine transnationale Wissensgeschichte im Kalten Krieg, Bielefeld: transcript 2017. (http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3540-9)
Articles:
* “El ‘Population Establishment’ en Colombia: Cooperaciones científicas y saberes contestados en los años 1960”, in: Buenaventura Gómez, Laura Alejandra; Jiménez Ángel, Andrés; Schuster, Sven (eds.): Colombia Conectada. El “Tibet de Sudamérica” en perspectiva global (siglos XIX y XX), Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario 2023, pp. 337-365.
* “Modern Infrastructure as a Flagship of “Civilized” Nations: Envisioning and Constructing New Healthy Spaces for Uruguayan Children (1900s to 1930s)”, in: Comparativ, 32, 5, 2022, pp. 570-589.
* with Katharina Schembs: “Spaces of Progress and Development in Latin America: An Introduction”, in: Comparativ, 32, 5, 2022, pp. 537-546.
* “Working Mothers and 'Machos Completos' – Gendered Modernity in Fertility Surveys in Colombia (1960s to 1970s)”, in: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina, 59, 2022, pp. 99-131.
* “Demographic Concerns and Interventions: The Changing Population-Development Nexus in the 20th Century”, in: Unger, Corinna R.; Borowy, Iris; Pernet, Corinne A. (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development, Abingdon; New York: Routledge 2022, pp. 134–147.
with Delia González de Reufels: “Transnational Events and National Health Reform: The Latin American Medical Congresses and the Legitimisation of Public Health Reforms in Chile and Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century”, in: Kuhlmann, Johanna; Nullmeier, Frank (eds.): Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 337-368.
* “Did Migrants Build the Welfare State? Migration as a Social Policy Driver in Early Twentieth-Century Uruguay”, in: Nullmeier Frank; González de Reufels, Delia; Obinger, Herbert (eds.): International Impacts on Social Policy. Short Histories in a Global Perspective, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 477-488.
* “The Transnational Formation of a Healthy Nation: Uruguayan Travelling Reformers in the Early 20th Century (1905-1931)”, in: Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 19, 3, 2021, pp. 1-22.
* “Frauen und Geschlechterbeziehungen”, in: Fischer, Thomas; Klengel, Susanne; Pastrana Buelvas, Eduardo (ed.): Kolumbien Heute, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert 2017, pp. 243-258.
* with Maria Dörnemann: “Population Problems in Modernization and Development: Positions and Practices”, in: The Population Knowledge Network (ed.): Twentieth Century Population Thinking. A Critical Reader of Primary Sources, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2015, pp. 142-171.
* “Contested Survey Data: Interpreting Colombian Women’s Family Ideals in the Early Sixties”, in: Contemporanea,18, 3, 2015, pp. 478-483.
* “Ein Laboratorium der Modernisierung: Public Health, Bevölkerungsforschung und Familienplanung in Candelaria (Kolumbien)”, in: Etzemüller, Thomas (ed.): Vom “Volk” zur “Population”. Formen der interventionistischen Bevölkerungspolitik in der Nachkriegszeit, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2015, pp. 79-104.
* “‘Lateinamerika ist ein Paradies für Demografen und ein Albtraum für Planer’ – Bevölkerungsexpertise im Kalten Krieg”, in: Rinke, Stefan; González de Reufels, Delia (ed.): Expert Knowledge in Latin American History: Local, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, Stuttgart: Verlag Hans Dieter Heinz 2014, pp. 333-358.
* “‘I see the flag in all of that’. Discussions on Americanism and Internationalism in the Making of the San Francisco Monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade”, in: American Communist History, 10, 1, 2011, pp. 1-33.
* with Vanessa Höse: “Bicentenario 2.0. Nationale Grenzen im grenzenlosen Medium”, in: Hispanorama, 129, 2010, pp. 23-27.
* “Sidewalk Views of the Monument”, in: The Volunteer, 25, 4, Dezember 2008, p. 4.
Edited volumes and issues:
* with Katharina Schembs (eds.): Spaces of Progress and Development: Planning in Rural and Urban Latin America (19th and 20th Century), Special Issue, Comparativ, 32, 5, 2022.
* with The Population Knowledge Network (ed.): Twentieth Century Population Thinking. A Critical Reader of Primary Sources, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2015.
* with Christoph Höltke (Ed.): Nicaragua – der Traum von der Freiheit [Lateinamerika im Fokus, Vol. 2], Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin 2011.
* with Georg Ismar (Ed.) “Themenschwerpunkt Bolivien”, in: Hispanorama, 112, May 2006, pp. 9-60.
Reviews:
* Buenos Aires in Zeiten der Cholera und des Gelbfiebers, Rezension zu Antonio Carbone (2022): Park, tenement, slaughterhouse. Elite imaginaries of Buenos Aires, 1852-1880. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, in: sub\urban, 11, 3/4, 2023, pp. 509-515.
* Sergio Yanes Torrado, Carlos Marín Suárez and María Cantabrana Carassou: Papeles de plomo. Los voluntarios uruguayos en la Guerra de España. Barcelona: Descontrol Editorial 2017, in: Iberoamericana, 21, 78, 2021, pp. 308-311.
* Sönke Bauck, Nüchterne Staatsbürger für junge Nationen: die Temperenzbewegung am Rio de la Plata (1876-1933). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2018, in: Iberoamericana, 20, 75, 2020, pp. 342-345.
* Albert Manke and Kateřina Březinová (Ed.), Kleinstaaten und sekundäre Akteure im Kalten Krieg: Politische, wirtschaftliche, militärische und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika. Bielefeld: transcript 2016, in: Journal of Cold War Studies, 22, 3, 2020, pp. 266-268.
* Claudia Roesch: Macho Men and Modern Women. Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2015, in: H-Soz-Kult, 05.02.2018, on: http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-26872 (06.02.2018).
* Lukas Rehm: Politische Gewalt in Kolumbien. Die Violencia in Tolima, 1946-1964, Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter-Heinz. Akademischer Verlag 2014, in: sehepunkte 15, 9, 2015, on: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/09/25925.html (14.10.2015).
* Grace Livingstone: America’s Backyard. The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror, London/New York: Zedbooks 2009. In: Iberoamericana, 25, 4, 2010, pp. 298-299.