Since 2023
Project leader “Colonial Rule on the Ground: The District Administration of Indigenous Regions in New Spain and Peru in the 18th Century”, DFG Research Unit 5415 “Local Xenocracy. Administration and Cultural Entanglement in Pre-Modernity”, University of Cologne, Germany

2022–2023
Deputy Chair for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Germany

2021–2022
Researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne

2017–2018
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Knowledge, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

2013–2021
Assistant Professor in Latin American History at the University of Münster, Germany

2008–2013
Research Associate and Lecturer in Global and Latin American History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Colonial history of Peru
• Developmentalism in the Cold War
• Infrastructure and environment
• Migration and colonialism
• Global gender relations
• Historical theory

DFG Research Unit “Local Xenocracy. Administration and Cultural Entanglement in Pre-Modernity”, University of Cologne

This subproject examines the local administration in indigenous districts in New Spain and Peru from 1750–1820, focusing on negotiation processes between Spanish officials and the population. Ethnic categorizations played a major role in the administration. Their changes in the course of administrative reforms led to them being renegotiated, stabilized and questioned.