Prof. Dr. Barbara Potthast
Department of History, Institute for Iberian and Latin American History
Philosophikum (Arts and Humanities Building)
Room: 0.017
E-mail: barbara.potthast(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
Phone: + 49 221 470 2446
Short Biography
President of the Centro Latinamericano de Colonia (CLAC) and ASPLA 2000 - present
Professor at the University of Cologne and director of the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History 1992 - 2000
Professor at the University of Bielefeld 1992
Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) 1986
PhD, Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History, University of Cologne
Aktuelle Forschung
Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Convivality-Inequality in Latin America
Mecila, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, is one of five international centres for advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in cooperation with local institutions and funding agencies.
Mecila is an academic consortium composed of three German institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (coordination), Universität zu Köln, and Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz); and four Latin American institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, El Colegio de México, and Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CONICET / Universidad Nacional de La Plata). The Centre aims at developing cutting-edge research through horizontal interdisciplinary cooperation among scholars from Germany, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions of the world, drawing on long-term collaborative ties between the consortium institutions.
Mecila’s headquarters are in São Paulo, Brazil. Its activities take place at all seven member institutions, as well as at other cooperating institutions with joint projects.
Funding: BMBF
Website: mecila.net
Duration: 2020-2026
Prof. Dr. Barbara Potthast was awarded the University Prize of the University of Cologne
Professor and Speaker of the Global South Studies Center Dr. Barbara Potthast, Professor of Iberian and Latin American History, was awarded the University Prize 2018 in the "Research" category at the Rector's New Year's Reception. She receives the award for her life's work in the field of women's studies and for her work at the GSSC.