Stefan Rinke

Stefan Rinke (2018)

Stefan Rinke (born December 31, 1965 in Helmstedt ) is a German historian . Since 2005 he has been Professor of Latin American History at the Latin America Institute and the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin .

Career

After graduating from high school Julianum in Helmstedt in 1984, Stefan Rinke studied history and American studies in Bamberg and Bowling Green (US state Ohio) from 1985 to 1990 . He graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts in Bowling Green and in 1990 with a diploma in history in Bamberg. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung supported him with a doctoral scholarship from 1991 to 1993. In 1995 he received his doctorate from the Catholic University of Eichstätt with a thesis on German-Latin American relations during the Weimar Republic from a transnational perspective under Hans-Joachim König . The work was published in 1996 as the first volume in the series Histoamericana founded by König and Rinke .

From 1996 to 1998 he was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with a postdoctoral fellowship. During this time he spent research stays in Santiago de Chile and Washington DC, among others . In September 1998 he was offered a position at Tufts University as Visiting Assistant Professor for the Comparative History of the Americas and Europe, where he taught until 1999.

In the same year, Stefan Rinke started a research assistant position in Eichstätt. In 2003 he received his habilitation there with a thesis on North Americanization and socio-cultural change in Chile . In 2005 he was offered the professorship for Latin American history at the Free University of Berlin.

Research priorities

Stefan Rinke researches the history of Latin America primarily from a transregional and global historical perspective. Research focuses on cultural globalization and North Americanization, popular culture, revolutionary research, memory and historical awareness, history of knowledge, trans-American relationships, temporality and the future. They cover the period from the colonial era (Columbus, Conquista of Mexico, identities) through the independence phase (Atlantic revolutions, future thinking), the 19th century (state formation and dictatorships, USA and Latin America), the 20th century (First World War, football, aviation ) to contemporary history (memory and conflict in Colombia and Chile, Colonia Dignidad). The spatial focuses include the history of Chile and Mexico.

International activities

Stefan Rinke was visiting professor and research fellow at leading international universities, including El Colegio de México and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

From 2009 to 2018 he was the spokesman for the first German-Latin American graduate school (IGK 1531 “Between Spaces - Entre Espacios”), a cooperation with Mexican partners dedicated to interdisciplinary research into globalization in the past and present. In the Collaborative Research Center 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” he acted as co-speaker from 2010 to 2017.

In 2014 he organized the Congress of European Latin American Historians at the Free University and was President of the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA) from 2014 to 2017 .

Since 2019, Stefan Rinke has been the spokesman for the International Graduate School "Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation", a German-Mexican cooperation that is dedicated to researching the temporalities of the future within the humanities and social sciences. In 2019, the Federal Foreign Office approved an oral history project he led for Colonia Dignidad in Chile.

Rinke has successfully nominated the historians Hilda Sabato (2011), Irina Podgorny (2013), Raanan Rein (2016) and Max Paul Friedman (2018) for awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

Rinke supervised numerous doctorates. Several of the doctoral theses were awarded. Rinke's students hold professorships in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Switzerland. Furthermore, Rinke has so far supervised a successfully completed habilitation as well as numerous postdoc projects by scientists from Germany and abroad.

Rinke is a member of the advisory boards of the German Historical Institute Washington DC and Berkeley, the Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Avanzados (CALAS) in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. He is also a member of the editorial board of international scientific journals. He regularly advises academic publishers, magazines and scientific organizations on three continents.

Prizes and awards

In 2003, Stefan Rinke was awarded the Eichstätter University Society Prize for his habilitation thesis. For the period from 2013 to 2015 he received a Research Fellowship from the Einstein Foundation Berlin . In 2017 he was honored with the Premio Alzate of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) for his complete work. The following year, the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2019 the Dahlem Research School presented him with the Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision. The Academia Mexicana de la Historia and the Ecuadorian Academia Nacional de Historia appointed Rinke as a corresponding member.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Conquistadors and Aztecs. Cortés and the conquest of Mexico . CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73399-4 .
with Walther L. Bernecker, Mariano Delgado, Friedrich Edelmayer, Nikolas Jaspert and Ursula Prutsch: World Empire Spain: The Golden Age. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-4020-7 .
Latin America . Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-2601-0 .
In the wake of the catastrophe. Latin America and the First World War. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50269-4 . English translation: Latin America and the First World War . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-56606-4 . Spanish translation: América Latina y la primera Guerra Mundial. Una historia global. FCE, Mexico 2019, ISBN 978-6-071-66553-9 .
Columbus and the day of Guanahani 1492. A turning point in history. Theiss, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2731-4 .
with Frederik Schulze: A Brief History of Brazil. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64441-2 .
Latin America and the USA. A story between rooms - from colonial times to today. (= Story compact ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-24551-2 . Spanish translation: América Latina y Estados Unidos. Una historia entre espacios desde la época colonial hasta hoy. Marcial Pons / El Colegio de México, Madrid / México 2015, ISBN 978-84-15963-19-6 . Portuguese translation: América Latina e Estados Unidos. Uma história entre espaços - do período colonial aos dias atuais . Autografía / EDUPE, Rio de Janeiro, 2015.
Revolutions in Latin America. Paths to Independence, 1760–1830. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60142-2 . Spanish translation: Las revoluciones en América Latina: Las vías a la independencia, 1760–1830. El Colegio de México, México 2011, ISBN 978-607-462-299-7 .
History of Latin America. From the earliest cultures to the present day. Beck knowledge. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60693-9 . Portuguese translation: História de América Latina: Das Culturas Pre-Colombianas até o Presente. ediPUCRS, Porto Alegre 2012, ISBN 978-85-397-0204-6 . Spanish translation: Historia de Latinoamérica. Desde las primeras culturas hasta el presente . El Colegio de México, México, 2016.
Little history of Chile. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54804-8 .
Encounters with the Yankee: North Americanization and Socio-Cultural Change in Chile, 1898–1990 (= Latin American Research. Volume 32). Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-06804-7 . Spanish translation: Encuentros con el yanqui: norteamericanización y cambio sociocultural en Chile 1898–1990. DIBAM, Santiago de Chile 2013, ISBN 978-956-244-071-4 .
Cultura de masas, reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931. Universidad Católica / Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, Valparaiso 2002, ISBN 956-244-151-2 .
"The last free continent". German Latin America Policy under the Sign of Transnational Relations, 1918–1933. 2 volumes. Heinz, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88099-670-9 (also: Eichstätt, Catholic University, dissertation, 1995).
Between world politics and the Monroe Doctrine: Ambassador Speck von Sternburg and German-American Relations, 1898–1908 (= German-American Studies. Volume 11). Heinz, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-88099-629-6 .

Editorships

with Nikolaus Böttcher and Nino Vallen (eds.), Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern World (Stuttgart: Heinz 2019).
with Michael Wildt (ed.), Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective (Frankfurt: Campus 2017).
with Carlos Riojas (ed.), Historia global: perspectivas y tensiones (Stuttgart: Heinz 2017).
with Raanan Rein and Nadia Zysman (eds.), The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
with Mónika Contreras Saiz and Tajana Louis (eds.), Memoria y conflicto - memorias en conflicto: intercambios metódicos y teóricos de experiencias locales latinoamericanas (Stuttgart: Heinz 2016).
with Ingrid Kummels, Claudia Rauhut and Birte Timm (eds.), Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practice, Ideas (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014).
with Delia González de Reufels (ed.), Expert Knowledge in Latin American History: Local, Transnational, and Global Perspectives (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2014).
with Mónika Contreras Saiz and Lasse Hölck (eds.), Gobernanza y seguridad: la conquista republicana de las fronteras latinoamericanas en el siglo XIX (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2014).
with Diego Armus (ed.): Del football al fútbol / futebol: Historias argentinas, brasileras y uruguayas en el siglo XX (Frankfurt a. M./Madrid: Vervuert, 2014).
with Kay Schiller (ed.): The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014).
with Carlos Alba and Marianne Braig (eds.), Latin America and Asia - Relations in the context of Globalization from Colonial Times to the Present . América Latina y Asia - relaciones en el contexto de la globalización de la época colonia hasta el presente (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2014).
with Christina Peters (ed.): Global Play: Football Between Region, Nation, and the World in Latin American, African, and European History (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2014).
with Georg Fischer, Christina Peters, Frederik Schulze (eds.): Brazil in the World: Region, Nation and Globalization, 1870-1945 (Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 2013).
with Carlos Alba, Marianne Braig and Guillermo Zermeño (eds.): Entre Espacios: Movimientos, actores y representaciones de la globalización (Berlin: Tranvía, 2013).
with Hans-Peter Hinz and Frederik Schulze (eds.): Bicentenario: 200 years of independence in Latin America. History between memory and future (Stuttgart-Berlin: Heinz-Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2011).
with Inga Luther, Nina Elsemann and Franka Bindernagel (eds.): Memory makes history: Latin America and Europe in the context of transnational interdependencies . (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2011).
with Helmut Bley, Hans-Joachim König and Kirsten Rüther: Encyclopedia of Modern Times . 16 volumes. Metzler, Stuttgart 2005–2012, ISBN 978-3-476-01935-6 .
with Hans-Joachim König : HISTORAMERICANA. Heinz, Stuttgart.
with Jörg Baberowski and Michael Wildt: Own and Foreign Worlds . Campus. Frankfurt a. M.
Mithrsg. Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani (Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires), ISSN 1850-2563.
Mithrsg. History and society . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ISSN 2196-9000
Mithrsg. Historia . Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile, ISSN 0717-7194.
Mithrsg. Iberoamericana: América Latina, España, Portugal . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main / Madrid, ISSN 1577-3388

Web links

Individual evidence

^ André Felipe Cândido da Silva, Miriam Junghans, Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, Pedro Felipe Neves de Muñoz: Trocas intelectuais entre Alemanha e América Latina: entrevista com Stefan Rinke. In: História, Ciencias, Saude-Manguinhos. vol. 21 no.1 Rio de Janeiro Jan./Mar. 2014, accessed April 10, 2015.
↑ Stefan Rinke: "The Last Free Continent". German Latin America Policy under the Sign of Transnational Relations, 1918–1933. 2 volumes. Heinz, Stuttgart 1996.
^ Stefan Rinke: Encounters with the Yankee: North Americanization and Sociocultural Change in Chile, 1898–1990 (= Latin American research. 32). Böhlau, Cologne 2004.
↑ Entre espacios: la historia latinoamericana en el contexto global: Actas del XVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA), Free University of Berlin, 9-13 de septiembre de 2014. Accessed on March 27, 2020 .
^ International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future". Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
↑ Colonia Dignidad. A Chilean-German oral history archive. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
↑ LAI. History. Vocations. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
↑ LAI. History. Completed doctorates. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
↑ Historamericana. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rinke, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helmstedt