Proyectos de investigación actuales
- Mestiz@ as a Travelling Concept:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/forschung/profil/ideenlabor/index.html
Project Description: "Mestizo" (métis, mestiço, mesties) was the most prominent legal categorization referring to people of so-called "mixed" ancestry in colonial contexts in the Americas. It played a key role in the organization of social difference and the concept contributed to processes of increasing racialization. The project aims at tracing the origin, dissemination,
translation and adaptation of the categorization in the early modern Americas. It studies practices of mestiz@s and their
families and processes of belonging and migration in a transimperial approach. In the world of science, there are ideas that go beyond the ordinary – ideas that challenge conventional thought patterns, open new horizons and pave the way for ground-breaking discoveries. However, these ideas often appear to be too risky or unconventional to be immediately pursued through conventional funding channels. In order to initiate and promote such projects at the University of Münster, the “Ideas Lab” was established as a strategic funding measure. - Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines, Sub-project EXC 2060 A3-39 at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at Münster University (2023 - 2025)
- Gregorio de Robles. An early modern travel report by a Spanish peasant (with Dr. Raquel Gil Montero)
En este proyecto de investigación, Raquel Gil Montero y yo analizamos un insólito relato de viaje del siglo XVII. Además de la rareza de los relatos de viaje de esta época, su singularidad reside principalmente en el hecho de que el viajero, Gregorio de Robles, se autoidentificó como campesino. Este español excepcional recorrió los dominios de los imperios español, portugués, británico, francés y holandés en América y Europa, e incluso tocó brevemente el sur de África.
Proyectos de investigación finalizados
- Konstruktionsprozesse des ‚Ethnischen‘ in Michoacán, Mexiko und Cajamarca, Peru. Translokale Positionierungen indigener Migrant_innen unter der Kolonialherrschaft. Financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
- UoC Forum Ethnicity as a Political Ressource. Financed by Köln University in the framework of its Excellence Initiative.
- Außenkontakte des taraskischen Staates in Westmexiko. Financed by Gerda Henkel Foundation