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Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of Modern and Contemporary History with special emphasis on Latin America (Prof. Dr. Albiez- Wieck)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
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0000-0002-0865-2025

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • History of Latin America and the Philippines
  • Migration & Belonging
  • Racism, ethnicity, othering
  • (Post)colonialism, decolonization and comparative history of colonialism
  • Unfree labor
  • Tax categories, social categorizations
  • Indigenous and African-descended population
  • Petitions
  • Mestizos and mestizaje in a global perspective
  • Travelogues
  • Tarascan state in western Mexico

Academic Education

09/2015 - 01/2021Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Modern and Contemporary History, University of Cologne
11/2007 - 11/2011Doctorate in anthropology, with a focus on Ancient American Studies, University of Bonn (in cooperation with the Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico)
10/2001 - 05/2007Studies in Regional Sciences of Latin America, University of Cologne, University of Bonn, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Work Experience

since 10/2022Professorship in Modern and Contemporary History with a focus on non-European history, University of Münster
01/2023 - 07/2023Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at INCIHUSA-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina
10/2020 - 09/2022Interim Professor in Iberian and Latin American History (W2), University of Cologne
02/2014 - 09/2022Research assistant, Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne; dedicated position of the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2016-2019; leave of absence for acting professorships; interrupted by two parental leaves and leave of absence for acting professorships
10/2019 - 03/2020Interim Professor for Ibero-Romance Cultural Studies with special focus on Latin America (W1), Department of Romance Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
02/2010 - 01/2014Director (research assistant), Research Network for Latin America “Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging” (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research), University of Cologne
11/2007 - 01/2010Doctoral scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation
11/2008 - 01/2009Research assistant, Centre for Research and Teaching on Latin America, University of Cologne
08/2007 - 10/2007Research assistant, Department of Ancient American Studies and Anthropology, University of Bonn

Functions and Memberships

since 2024Membership, Consejo Asesor del Boletín Americanista
since 2024Stellvertretende Vorsitzende, Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens
since 2023Mitgliedschaft, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”
since 11/2015Mitgliedschaft, German History Society
since 06/2011Mitgliedschaft, German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, regional group Mesoamerica
since 11/2006Mitgliedschaft, Working group German Latin American Research
04/2020 - 2022Mitgliedschaft, Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

Publications

Racializing Mestizos and Mestizas in the Philippines. Dean Worcester's Anthropometric Types in the Early 20th Century.
Albiez-Wieck, Sarah (2025)
In: Histories, 5 (2)(23).
Research article (journal)
Caste Society
Albiez-Wieck, Sarah (2025)
In: Micheal Tarver, Carlos E. Márquez Petit (eds.), South America. From European contact to independence. New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic.
Research article (book contribution)
Aprender a viajar: Gregorio de Robles y su recorrido americano de fines del siglo XVII
Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Gil Montero, Raquel (2025)
In: Historia, 58(I).
Research article (journal)
Buenaventura Campa: “Una Visita a las Rancherías de Ilongotes“ y “Los Mayóyaos y la raza ifugao: (apuntes para un estudio)”
Albiez-Wieck, Sarah (2025)
In:  Friedlein, Roger; Friedel Ablanedo, Beatriz, Pohl, Katharina (eds.), Galería de viajeros y una viajera a las Islas Filipinas. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo.
Research article (book contribution)
Dependent Labour in Colonial Spanish America: Indios Yanaconas and Indios Laboríos
Albiez-Wieck, Sarah (2025)
In: International Review of Social History, 1.
Research article (journal)
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Projects

Mestizo as travelling concept
Duration: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Ideas Lab
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
EXC 2060 A3-39 - Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines
Duration: 01/06/2023 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Doctorates

[Working title] Sacred Frames: Ecclesiastical Images of Filipino Religious Groups vis-à-vis the Colonial Photography of the United States, 1898-1935
Candidate: Virgilio Angelo Gelera Gener | Supervisors: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Santillan, Neil Martial del Rosario
Period of time: 03/07/2023 - 30/06/2026
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster