Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck

Chair for Latin American History
© Sarah Albiez-Wieck

Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck
Münster University
Department of History
Fürstenberghaus, room 218 e
48143 Münster

Tel.: + 49 (0) 251 / 83-24356
Sarah Albiez-Wieck
 

In winter term 2026/27, Professor Albiez-Wieck will be a guest professor at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg EViR. Her teaching commitment for this semester will be taken over by PD Dr. Thomas Weller from The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz.

Office hours during semester break 
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12.8. 10-11 am (via Zoom)
17.8. 8-10 am (viaZoom)
2.9. 10-11 am (via Zoom)
17.9. 1-2 pm (in person)
29-9- 10-11 am (via Zoom)
7.10. 2-3 pm (in person)

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  • CURRICULUM VITAE

    ACADEMIC POSITIONS

    since Oct. 2022: Full Professor at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History (Non-European History)
    2020-2022: Interim Professor in Iberian and Latin American History (W2), University of Cologne
    2019-2020: Interim Professor for Ibero-Romance Cultural Studies with special focus on Latin America (W1), Department of Romance Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    2014-2019: Senior Researcher, Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne 
    2010-2014: Managing director (Senior Researcher), “Research Network Latin America – Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging“, University of Cologne

    EDUCATION

    2021: Habilitation and Right to Lecture in Modern History, Department of History, University of Cologne (Similar to US Tenure)
    2011: PhD, Anthropology of the Americas, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 
    2007: Degree (with distinction), Latin American studies, University of Cologne

    ACADEMIC FUNCTIONS

    since 2026: member of the Historische Kommission für Westfalen
    since 2024: Centre for Empire Studies: (Post)colonial Histories and Global Entanglements (with Kevin Lenk und Felix Brahm), speaker
    since 2024: Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens, Abteilung Münster e.V., 2nd Deputy chairperson
    since 2024: Consejo Asesor del Boletín Americanista, membership
    since 2023: Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, head of sub-project Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines  
    since 2023: VHD Association, membership
    since 2023: Advisory board of the journal "Huellas", membership
    seit 2023: Advisory board of the journal "Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas", membership
    2016-2022: Board member of the Working group German Latin American Research

     

  • PUBLICATIONS

    Monographs

    2022: Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain 16th-19th Century. Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging. Leiden, Boston: Brill (European expansion and indigenous response, 40). Partly available in open acces at: https://brill.com/view/title/34680. Review: https://rg.lhlt.mpg.de/index.php/rg/article/view/2331/2382 and https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/doi/10.1215/00182168-11385026/388735/Taxing-Difference-in-Peru-and-New-Spain-16th-19th?redirectedFrom=PDF

    2013: Contactos exteriores del Estado Tarasco. Influencias desde dentro y fuera de Mesoamérica. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán. Review: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-595/albiez-wieck-sarah-contactos-exteriores-del-estado-tarasco-influencias-desde-dentro-y-fuera-de-mesoamerica-jahrgang-110-2015-heft-2?hitid=00&search-click&page=1

    (Eine frühere Version des Manuskripts bzw. der Dissertation ist Online verfügbar unter urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-26262; http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2011/2626/2626.htm, 2011).

    2009: Die “Breve relación” des Pedro Ponce de León. Ein unbekannter Autor und sein Bericht über religiöse Praktiken in Zentralmexiko, Bonn: BAS / Shaker Verlag. Review: https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/1331/977


    Editorial Work

    2022: Género en América Latina. Homenaje a Barbara Potthast. Madrid, Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana, Vervuert. Ed. with Silke Hensel, Holger M. Meding, and Katharina Schembs. Review: https://www.amerindianresearch.de/amerindianresearch-2022-4.htm

    2020: Taxing difference: Empires as spaces of ordered inequality / Steuern von Differenz: Imperien als Räume geordneter Ungleichheit. Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3.

    2020: El que no tiene de inga, tiene de mandinga. Honor y mestizaje en los mundos americanos. Madrid, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert; Iberoamericana Vervuert. Ed. with Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira und Antonio Fuentes Barragán. Review: https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/12618

    2016: Continuidades y discontinuidades: El Michoacán antiguo desde el surgimiento del Estado tarasco hasta la época colonial, Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán. Ed. with Hans Roskamp.

    2015: Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript. Herausgegeben zusammen mit dem UoC Forum Ethnicity as a Political Ressource.

    2011: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging. Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 1). Ed. with Nelly Castro, Lara Jüssen, and Eva Youkhana. Review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/blar.12247

    2007: China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag, Berlin (WVB) (Lateinamerika im Fokus IV). Ed. with Philipp Kauppert and Sophie Müller. Review: berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/1331/977


    Articles

    2026: “Der Weg nach Esmeraldas: Kapitulationen Und Koloniale Infrastruktur in der Audiencia de Quito (Ekuador), 16.–19. Jahrhundert.” In Räume Und Zeiten Des Kolonialen: Europäische Praktiken Der Dominanz Von Der Frühen Neuzeit Bis in Die Gegenwart. Edited by Anja Laukötter and Kim Siebenhühner. Köln; Wien, 27–54. Peripherien. Böhlau.

    2025: "Dependent Labour in Colonial Spanish America: Indios Yanaconas and Indios Laboríos". In International Review of Social History, pp. 1–28. DOI: 10.1017/S0020859025100837.

    2025: "Buenaventura Campa: 'Una Visita a las Rancherías de Ilongotes' y 'Los Mayóyaos y la raza ifugao: (apuntes para un estudio)'". In: Galería de viajeros y una viajera a las Islas Filipinas. Hrsg. von Roger Friedlein, Beatriz Friedel Ablanedo und Katharina Pohl. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo.

    2025: "Aprender a viajar: Gregorio de Robles y su recorrido americano de fines del siglo XVII". In Historia 58 (I), pp. 41–68. Available online at https://revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rhis/article/view/68449/71386, checked on 8/25/2025. With Raquel Gil Montero

    2025: "Caste Society". In H. Micheal Tarver, Carlos E. Márquez Petit (Eds.): South America. From European contact to independence, I. New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 234–236.

    2025: "Racializing Mestizos and Mestizas in the Philippines. Dean Worcester’s Anthropometric Types in the Early 20th Century". In: Histories 5 (2) (23), pp. 1–24. DOI: 10.3390/histories5020023.

    2024: "(Colonial) Spanish America: On the Existence and Time Span of 'Normenkonkurrenz'". In: Konzeptforum Normenkonkurrenz und kulturelle Ambiguität: Conceptual Forum Concurrence of Norms and Cultural Ambiguity. Hrsg. von Ulrike Ludwig, S. 67–75. EViR Working Paper 09. Münster: Kate Hamburger Kolleg "Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht".

    2023: “Hospitality Towards European Travellers in Latin America in the Colonial Middle.” In The Seventeenth Century 39 (1), 1–25. Accessed November 10, 2023. doi:10.1080/0268117X.2023.2273472. With Raquel Gil Montero.

    2023: "'Mégico es el país de la desigualdad': Humboldt, la sociedad de castas y el racismo 'científico'". In: Saberes, Silencios, Intuiciones: Alexander von Humboldt a los 250 años de su nacimiento. Hrsg. von Scarlett O´Phelan Godoy, S. 257–300. Lima: Instituto Riva-Agüero; PUCP; Fundacion Bustamante de la Fuente.

    2022: "A needle in a haystack: Looking for an early modern peasant who travelled from Spain to America". In: Histories 2, pp. 91–111. DOI: 10.3390/histories2020009. With Raquel Gil Montero

    2021: "Taxing Calidad: The Case of Spanish America and the Philippines". In: Portuguese History 19 (2). DOI: 10.26300/58b8-hs97.

    2020: “Putting tribute into perspective Negotiating colonial obligations in seventeenth-century Peru”, In Dhau. Jahrbuch für Außereuropäische Geschichte, 3, pp. 57-85. With Raquel Gil Montero.

    2020 “Introducing Taxing Difference. Empires as Spaces of Ordered Inequality”. In: Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3, pp. 9-32.

    2020: “The Emergence of Colonial Fiscal Categorizations in Peru. Forasteros and Yanaconas del Rey, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.” In: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 54 (1), pp. 1–24. DOI: 10.1080/14701847.2020.1717109 . Available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14701847.2020.1717109, last checked on 6 May 2020. With Raquel Gil Montero.

    2020: “Ascendencia ‘mixta’ y categoría fiscal. Estrategias de peticionarios cajamarquinos y michoacanos, siglos XVII-XIX”. In: Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira und Antonio Fuentes Barragán (Hg.): El que no tiene de inga, tiene de mandinga. Honor y mestizaje en los mundos americanos. Madrid, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert; Iberoamericana Vervuert, pp. 111–162.

    2019: “Conviviality as a Tool for Creating Networks: The Case of an Early Modern Global Peasant Traveller”. In: Mecila Working Paper Series (19). Online verfügbar unter http://mecila.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WP-19-Gil-Montero-and-Albiez-Wieck-Online-Final.pdf, zuletzt geprüft am 02.09.2019. With Raquel Gil Montero.

    2018c: “Laboríos and vagos. Migrants negotiating tributary categories in colonial Michoacán”. In Verbum et Lingua 12 (Julio-Diciembre), pp. 45–66. Available online at http://www.verbumetlingua.cucsh.udg.mx/digital/12, last checked on 18 December 2018.

    2018b: „Die Indigenen als Teil der Kolonialgesellschaft“. In Eveline Dürr, Henry Kammler (Eds.): Einführung in die Ethnologie Mesoamerikas. Münster et.al.: Waxmann-Verlag, pp. 162–172.

    2018a: “Translocal agency in colonial societies. Categorizing and negotiating belonging of indigenous migrants in New Spain and Peru”. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 44 (2), pp. 196-222. (Dossier “Migration, Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit”, herausgegeben von Anne Friedrichs.) Online at: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/zeitschriften-und-kapitel/48732/translocal-agency-in-colonial-societies-categorizing-and-negotiating-belonging-of-indigenous-migrants-in-new-spain-and-peru, last checked on 12 July 2018.

    2017b: ”Indigenous migrants negotiating belonging. Peticiones de cambio de fuero in Cajamarca, Peru, 17th-18th century.” In Colonial Latin American Review 26 (4), pp. 483–508. DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233. Available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233, last checked on 08 March 2018.

    2017a: “Tributgesetzgebung und ihre Umsetzung in den Vizekönigreichen Peru und Neuspanien im Vergleich“. In Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 54 (1), pp. 211–257. Available online at: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ojs3/index.php/jbla/article/view/25/13, last checked on 8 March 2018.

    2016: “Identidades y pertenencias en el Michoacán antiguo antes y después de la conquista”. In: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Roskamp, Hans (ed.): Continuidades y discontinuidades: El Michoacán antiguo desde el surgimiento del Estado tarasco hasta la época colonial, Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, pp. 121-141.

    2015: “Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods,” in: University of Cologne Forum Ethnicity as a Political Ressource (ed.): Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 171-181.

    2013b: “Social categorisations in the Tarascan State. Debates about the existence of Ethnicity in Prehispanic West Mexico” In: Célleri, Daniela; Schwarz, Tobias; Wittger, Bea (ed.): Interdependencies of Social Categorisations. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 2), pp. 265-288.

    2013a: Stichwort „Mesoamerika“, in: Hensel, Silke; Potthast, Barbara (ed.): Das Lateinamerika Lexikon, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, pp. 216-217.

    2011: “Introduction”, with Nelly Castro, Lara Jüssen und Eva Youkhana, in: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Castro, Nelly; Jüssen, Lara; Youkhana, Eva (ed.): Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging. Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions. Frankfurt a.M.; Madrid: Vervuert; Iberoamericana (Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, 1). pp. 11-34.

    2009: „Außenbeziehungen der Tarasken“, in: AmerIndian Research, Jg. 3, Nr. 13, pp. 157-165.

    2007: „Die Beziehungen zwischen China und Lateinamerika von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag“, gemeinsam mit Philipp Kauppert, in: Albiez-Wieck, Sarah; Kauppert, Philipp; Müller, Sophie (ed.): China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag, Berlin (WVB), pp. 15-38.


    Reviews and Miscellanea

    2020: Book review: The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán. By David L. Haskell. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2018. Pp. 263. $87.00 cloth; $31.95. paper. In: The Americas 77 (3), pp. 472–473. DOI: 10.1017/tam.2020.46.

    2016c: “Book review: Je le dis pour mémoire. Testaments d´indiens, lieux d´une justice ordinaire. Cajamarca, Pérou, XVIIe siècle by Aude Argouse”, in: Colonial Latin American Review, Jg. 25, Nr. 4, pp. 578-579.

    2006: „Die Welt verändern, ohne die Macht zu übernehmen?“ Rezension: John Holloway: Die zwei Zeiten der Revolution. Würde, Macht und die Politik der Zapatistas.  Aus dem Englischen und Spanischen übersetzt und eingeleitet von Jens Kastner. In: Matices. Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, Jg. 13, Nr. 50, p. 70.

    2007/2008: „Neue Übersetzung der Leyenda de los Soles“. Rezension: Berthold Riese: Aztekische Schöpfungs- und Stammesgeschichte.“ In: Matices. Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, Jg. 14, Nr. 56, p. 65.

    Verschiedene Länderberichte (Mexiko und Kolumbien) in Matices. Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, Nr. 51 (2006) – 61 (2009).