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Dr. Katharina Schembs


Department of History, Institute for Iberian and Latin American History

Philosophikum (Arts and Humanities Building)

Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln

Room 0.021

E-Mail: katharina.schembs(at)uni-koeln.de

Telefon: (+49)221-470 4149
Fax: (+49)221-4704996

Short Biography

2021
Fellow at Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality - Inequality in Latin America), Research Group "Conservative educational projects and their configurations of conviviality-inequality in Argentina and Chile: the Macri and Piñera governments (2010-2020)"

since 2017
Assistant Professor at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne

2014-2016
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, research project “Staging work in the corporatist state. Visual propaganda in Fascist Italy and in Peronist Argentina in a transnational perspective (1922-1955)“, funded by the German Research Community (DFG)

2012-2014                             
Spokesperson of the young scholars group of the German Association of Research on Latin America (ADLAF)

2010 – 2013
Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 640) „Representations of Social Orders in Transformation”, Humboldt University Berlin

2005-2010
Studies of History, Spanish and Art History at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

Research Interests
  • Visual History
  • Populism
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Latin American Architecture
  • South-South Cooperations

Recent Publications