Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck
(Faculty of History)
Sarah Albiez-Wieck has been a professor in the Department of History since October 2022. After studying Latin American regional studies at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Lisbon and Mexico City, she completed her doctorate in Bonn in ethnology with a special focus on ancient American studies in cooperation with the Mexican Colegio de Michoacán. She was managing director of a joint project in Cologne and a research assistant at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History in Cologne. She held junior professorships in Bochum and Cologne. In the summer semester of 2023, she conducted research in Argentina as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Sarah Albiez-Wieck is primarily concerned with the history of the Spanish colonial empire, especially in Hispano-America and also in the Philippines. At the center of her interest are social categories and differentiations, which she examined in her habilitation on the basis of tax categories. In a more recent project, she is approaching these by analyzing visual representations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition, she is currently working with Raquel Gil Montero (Argentina) on the account of a Spanish farmer who traveled through America for years at the End of the 17th century.