Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck

• 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 – 01.2021

Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Modern and Contemporary History, University of Cologne

11.2007 – 11.2011

Doctorate in anthropology, with a focus on Ancient American Studies, University of Bonn (in cooperation with the Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico)

10.2001 – 05.2007

Studies in Regional Sciences of Latin America, University of Cologne, University of Bonn, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Positions

01. – 07.2023

Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at INCIHUSA-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

since 10.2022

Professorship in Modern and Contemporary History with a focus on non-European history, University of Münster

02.2014 – 09.2022

Research 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

10.2020 – 09.2022

Interim Professor in Iberian and Latin American History (W2), University of Cologne

10.2019 – 03.2020

Interim Professor for Ibero-Romance Cultural Studies with special focus on Latin America (W1), Department of Romance Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

02.2010 – 01.2014

Director (research assistant), Research Network for Latin America “Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging” (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research), University of Cologne

11.2007 – 01.2010

Doctoral scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation

11.2008 – 01.2009

Research assistant, Centre for Research and Teaching on Latin America, University of Cologne

08. – 10.2007

Research assistant, Department of Ancient American Studies and Anthropology, University of Bonn

External Functions

since 2024

Consejo Asesor del Boletín Americanista (Membership)

since 2024

Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende)

since 2023

Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” (Mitgliedschaft)

04.2020 – 2022

Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil (Mitgliedschaft)

since 11.2015

German History Society (Mitgliedschaft)

since 06.2011

German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, regional group Mesoamerica (Mitgliedschaft)

since 11.2006

Working group German Latin American Research (Mitgliedschaft)

Summer Term 2026

Lecture

• Lecture: Einführung in die frühe Neuzeit [084203]
  (in cooperation with Ulrike Ludwig)
  • [16^th Apr | Thu, 10.00 a. m. – 12.00 p. m. | weekly | F2]

Seminar

• Introductory seminar: Einführung in das Studium der neueren Geschichte: Unfreie Arbeit in Lateinamerika [084216]
  • [15^th Apr | Wed, 12.00 p. m. – 4.00 p. m. | weekly | F 040]

Practice

• Practice: Die lange Eroberung Lateinamerikas [084247]
  • [16^th Apr | Thu, 2.00 p. m. – 4.00 p. m. | weekly | F 33]

Colloquium

• Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte [084300]
  (in cooperation with Fernando Esposito and Olaf Blaschke)
  • [15^th Apr | Wed, 6.00 p. m. – 8.00 p. m. | weekly | F2]
  • [Wed, 13^th May 2026, 8.00 p. m. – 9.45 p. m. | Single Course | F2]

Winter Term 2025/26

Seminars

• Seminar: Gender and Empire. The Philippines under Spanish, US and Japanese rule. [082287]
• Intermediate seminar: Koloniale Fotografie [082235]

Colloquium

• Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte [082291]
  (in cooperation with Fernando Esposito, Heike Bungert and Olaf Blaschke)

Summer Term 2025

Lecture

• Lecture: Einführung in die frühe Neuzeit: Perspektiven aus Europa und Iberoamerika [080202]
  (in cooperation with Ulrike Ludwig)

Seminars

• Seminar: Imperial – kolonial – (post)kolonial. Theoretische Überlegungen und das spanische Kolonialreich [080271]
• Intermediate seminar: (Münster)postkolonial [080234]

Practice

• Practice: El imperio español y la historia global [080245]

Colloquium

• Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte [080286]
  (in cooperation with Fernando Esposito and Caroline Rothauge)

Winter Term 2024/25

Seminars

• Introductory seminar: Einführung in das Studium der neueren Geschichte: Frauen in Lateinamerika [088218]
• Intermediate seminar: Münster postkolonial – fachdidaktische und fachwissenschaftliche Perspektiven [088236]
  (in cooperation with Johannes Jansen)

Practice

• Practice: Gender in Reiseberichten über Lateinamerika und die Philippinen [088259]

Colloquium

• Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte [088305]
  (in cooperation with Silke Mende and Olaf Blaschke)

Summer Term 2024

Lecture

• Lecture: Migration in Lateinamerika [086203]

Seminar

• Intermediate seminar: Münster (post)kolonial [086234]

Practices

• Practice: Rassismus vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart [086238]
  (in cooperation with Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich)
• Practice: América en relatos de viaje (Spanisch für Historiker*innen) [086272]

Colloquium

• Colloquium: Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte in Kooperation mit der Ringvorlesung Empire Studies [086283]
  (in cooperation with Silke Mende and Olaf Blaschke)

• Books
• Articles
• Theses (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)
• Other Scientific Publications

Books

Books (Monographs)

2022

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2022. European expansion and indigenous response, Vol. 40, Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain 16th-19th Century. Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging Leiden and Boston: Brill.

2013

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2013. Contactos exteriores del Estado tarasco: Influencias desde dentro y fuera de Mesoamérica Zamora: Libreía Colmich.

2009

• Albiez, Sarah. 2009. Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, Die "Breve relación" des Pedro Ponce de León: Ein unbekannter Autor und sein Bericht über religiöse Praktiken in Zentralmexiko; con un amplio resumen en español Aachen: Shaker Verlag.

Books (Edited Collections)

2022

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, Meding, Holger, Hensel, Silke, and Schembs, Katharina, eds. 2022. Género en América Latina. Homenaje a Barbara Potthast Frankfurt a.M.: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

2020

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2020. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3, Taxing difference: Empires as spaces of ordered inequality / Steuern von Differenz: Imperien als Räume geordneter Ungleichheit, edited by Sarah Albiez-Wieck. Dhau: Röhrig Universitätsverlag.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, Cruz Lira, Lina Mercedes, and Fuentes Barragán, Antonio, eds. 2020. El que no tiene de inga, tiene de mandinga. Honor y mestizaje en los mundos americanos Madrid , Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana Vervuert. doi: 10.31819/9783964569097.

2016

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Roskamp, Hans, eds. 2016. Nuevas contribuciones al estudio del antiguo Michoacán Zamora, Michoacán: Libreía Colmich.
• Roskamp, Hans, and Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, eds. 2016. Continuidades y discontinuidades: El Michoacán antiguo desde el surgimiento del Estado tarasco hasta la época colonial Zamora: Libreía Colmich.

2015

• Political, Resource UFE, ed. 2015. Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

2011

• Albiez, Sarah, Castro, Nelly, Jüssen, Lara, and Youkhana, Eva, eds. 2011. Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging: Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions Frankfurt a.M. and Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

2007

• Albiez, Sarah, Kauppert, Philipp, and Müller, Sophie, eds. 2007. Lateinamerika im Fokus, China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines

Research Articles (Journals)

2025

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2025. “Racializing Mestizos and Mestizas in the Philippines. Dean Worcester's Anthropometric Types in the Early 20th Century.” Histories 5 (2) (23): 1–24. doi: 10.3390/histories5020023.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Gil Montero, Raquel. 2025. “Aprender a viajar: Gregorio de Robles y su recorrido americano de fines del siglo XVII.” Historia 58 (I): 41–68.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2025. “Dependent Labour in Colonial Spanish America: Indios Yanaconas and Indios Laboríos.” International Review of Social History 1: 1–28. doi: 10.1017/S0020859025100837.

2023

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Gil Montero, Raquel. 2023. “Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle.” The Seventeenth Century: 1–25. doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2273472.
• Gil Montero, Raquel, and Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2023. “Hospitality Towards European Travellers in Latin America in the Colonial Middle.” The Seventeenth Century 39 (1): 1–25. doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2273472.

2022

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Gil Montero, Raquel. 2022. “A needle in a haystack: Looking for an early modern peasant who travelled from Spain to America.” Histories 2: 91–111. doi: 10.3390/histories2020009.

2021

• Albiez-WIeck, Sarah. 2021. “Taxing Calidad: The Case of Spanish America and the Philippines.” E-Journal of Portuguese History 19: 110–129.

2020

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Gil Montero, Raquel. 2020. “The Emergence of Colonial Fiscal Categorizations in Peru. Forasteros and Yanaconas del Rey, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 54 (1): 1–24. doi: 10.1080/14701847.2020.1717109.
• Gil Montero, Raquel, and Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2020. “Putting tribute into perspective: Negotiating colonial obligations in seventeenth-century Peru.” Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3: 57–85.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 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.” Americas 77 (3): 472–473. doi: 10.1017/tam.2020.46.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2020. “Introducing Taxing Difference. Empires as Spaces of Ordered Inequality.” Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 3: 9–32.

2019

• Gil Montero, Raquel, and Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2019. “Conviviality as a Tool for Creating Networks: The Case of an Early Modern Global Peasant Traveller.” Mecila Working Paper Series 19.

2018

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2018. “Translocal agency in colonial societies: Categorizing and negotiating belonging of indigenous migrants in New Spain and Peru.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 44 (2): 196–222.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2018. “Laboríos and vagos: Migrants negotiating tributary categories in colonial Michoacán.” Verbum et Lingua 12 (Julio-Diciembre): 45–66.

2017

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2017. “Tributgesetzgebung und ihre Umsetzung in den Vizekönigreichen Peru und Neuspanien im Vergleich.” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 54 (1): 211–257.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2017. “Indigenous migrants negotiating belonging: Peticiones de cambio de fuero in Cajamarca, Peru, 17th-18th century.” Colonial Latin American Review 26 (4): 483–508. doi: 10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233.

2009

• Albiez, Sarah. 2009. “Außenbeziehungen der Tarasken.” AmerIndian Research 3 (13): 157–165.

Review (Journal)

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2016. “Book review: Je le dis pour mémoire. Testaments d´indiens, lieux d´une justice ordinaire. Cajamarca, Pérou, XVIIe siècle by Aude Argouse.” Colonial Latin American Review 25 (4): 578–579. doi: 10.1080/10609164.2016.1281023.

Research Article in Edited Proceeding (Conference)

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 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, edited by Ulrike Ludwig. Münster: Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht/Legal Unity and Pluralism".

Research Article (Book Contributions)

2026

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 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. Wien; Köln: Böhlau.

2025

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2025. “Caste Society.” in South America. From European contact to independence, edited by Tarver Micheal and E.Márquez Petit Carlos. New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 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, edited by Roger Friedlein and Beatriz Pohl Katharina Friedel Ablanedo. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo.

2023

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2023. “'Mégico es el país de la desigualdad': Humboldt, la sociedad de castas y el racismo 'científico'.” in Saberes, Silencios, Intuiciones., edited by Scarlett O´Phelan Godoy. Lima: Instituto Riva-Agüero; PUCP; Fundacion Bustamante de la Fuente.

2022

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2022. “Matrimonio, calidad y migración en la época colonial. Dispensas matrimoniales en Perú y Nueva España.” in Género en América Latina. Homenaje a Barbara Potthast, edited by Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Holger Meding, Silke Hensel and Katharina Schembs. Frankfurt a.M.: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

2020

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2020. “Ascendencia ‘mixta’ y categoría fiscal: Estrategias de peticionarios cajamarquinos y michoacanos, siglos XVII-XIX.” in El que no tiene de inga, tiene de mandinga. Honor y mestizaje en los mundos americanos, edited by Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira and Antonio Fuentes Barragán. Madrid , Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

2018

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2018. “Die Indigenen als Teil der Kolonialgesellschaft.” in Einführung in die Ethnologie Mesoamerikas, edited by Eveline Dürr and Henry Kammler. Münster et.al.: Waxmann.

2016

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2016. “Identidades y pertenencias en el Michoacán antiguo antes y después de la conquista.” in Nuevas contribuciones al estudio del antiguo Michoacán, edited by Sarah Albiez-Wieck and Hans Roskamp. Zamora, Michoacán: Libreía Colmich.

2015

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2015. “Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods.” in Conceptualizing Ethnicity as a Political Resource, edited by Resource UFE Political. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

2013

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2013. “Social categorisations in the Tarascan State: Debates about the existence of Ethnicity in Prehispanic West Mexico.” in Interdependencies of social categorizations, Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging in Latin America, edited by Daniela Célleri, Tobias Schwarz and Bea Wittger. Frankfurt a.M. and Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert.
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2013. “Stichwort ‚Mesoamerika‘.” in Das Lateinamerika Lexikon, edited by Silke Hensel and Barbara Potthast. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag.

2011

• Albiez, Sarah, Castro, Nelly, Jüssen, Lara, and Youkhana, Eva. 2011. “Introduction.” in Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging, edited by Sarah Albiez, Nelly Castro, Lara Jüssen and Eva Youkhana. Frankfurt a.M.: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

2007

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Kauppert, Philipp. 2007. “Die Beziehungen zwischen China und Lateinamerika von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag.” in China und Lateinamerika: Ein transpazifischer Brückenschlag, edited by Albiez-Wieck Sarah, Philipp Kauppert and Sophie Müller. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.

AbstractThesis (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2020. “Taxing Difference. Fiscal petitions negotiating social differences and belonging in Peru and New Spain (sixteenth century – nineteenth century).” Habilitation thesis, Universität zu Köln.

Other Scientific Publications

2021

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Clemens, Pia. 2021. Lateinamerikanische Hausangestellte im Film
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2021. Interview und Hintergrundinformationen für “Imperio Tarasco” bei “12 de octubre: cómo era realmente América antes de la llegada de Cristóbal Colón”
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah, and Gil Montero, Raquel. 2021. Glossary Mecila: Colonial Conviviality. Video Serie des Merian Centre Inequality-Conviviality in Latin America

2007

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2007. „Neue Übersetzung der Leyenda de los Soles“. Rezension: Berthold Riese: Aztekische Schöpfungs- und Stammesgeschichte.“

2006

• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 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
• Albiez-Wieck, Sarah. 2006. Verschiedene Länderberichte (Mexiko und Kolumbien)

• Gener, Virgilio A.G.: Sacred Frames: Ecclesiastical Images of Filipino Religious Groups vis-à-vis the Colonial Photography of the United States, 1898-1935 [working title]

  Supervisors

  Santillan, Neil Martial del Rosario