Curriculum Vitae

Main Fields of Research

Early modern Economic and Cultural History, Spanish Empire and its European connections especially: Cultural Exchange, Communication Media and Networks, Mining, Prices, State Finances

University Education

1978–1984 Medieval and Modern History, Spanish and Economics in Cologne and Seville
1983 Master in History and Spanish, Cologne
1984 Diploma in Economics, Cologne
1987 Doctor of Philosophy, History, Cologne
1994 Habilitation for Modern History, Spanish and Latinamerican History, Hamburg

Appointments

1988-1996 Assistant Professor, History Department, Hamburg
1998-2022 Full Professor of Economic and Social History, Department of History, University of Graz

Invited Professorships

1995 Visiting Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Latin America
1996 Visiting Professor, University of Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, Institute Études Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines
1997 Visiting Fellow at the Post Graduate College at the University of Bielefeld
2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla

Academic Administration:
1999-2001 Vice Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2005 Commission for the External Evaluation of Teaching at the History Departments of the Universities of Baden-Württemberg
2007-2010 Vice Head of the Department of History, University of Graz
2009-2010 Chair of the Commission for PhD Studies, University of Graz
2013-2014 Chair of the Commission for History Studies, University of Graz
2013-2015 FWO-Expertpanel: History, History of Arts and Archeology, Flanders
2013-2016 Chair of the History Section of the Academia Europaea
Boards of Refereed Journals:
1995-2016 Editorial Board Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina
2001-2006 with Horst Pietschmann, Hamburg, Director of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas
2007-2011 Director of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas
since 2009 Advisory Board of the Anuario de Estudios Americanos
2011-2020 Advisory Board of HISPANIA Revista Española de Historia
2013-2022 Advisory Board Cuadernos de Historia Moderna
since 2017 Advisory Board, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas
Boards of Series:
1999-2003 Editorial board: Querschnitte (series of textbooks)
1999-2010 Editorial board: Edition Weltregionen (series of textbooks)
Professional Associations:
since 1995 Asociación de Historiadores Europeos de América Latina (AHILA), Verein für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte
since 2010 Academia Europaea/The European Academy, London
since 2015 Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid

Academic Administration

1999-2001 Vice Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2005 Commission for the External Evaluation of Teaching at the History Departments of the Universities of Baden-Württemberg
2007-2010 Vice Head of the Department of History, University of Graz
2009-2010 Chair of the Commission for PhD Studies, University of Graz
2013-2014 Chair of the Commission for History Studies, University of Graz
2013-2015 FWO-Expertpanel: History, History of Arts and Archeology, Flanders
2013-2016 Chair of the History Section of the Academia Europaea
2018-2020 ESF College of Expert Reviewers

Boards of Refereed Journals

1995-2016 Editorial Board Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina

2001-2006 with Horst Pietschmann, Hamburg, Director of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas

2007-2011 Director of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas

2009-2018 Advisory Board of the Anuario de Estudios Americanos

2011-2020 Advisory Board of HISPANIA Revista Española de Historia

2013-2022 Advisory Board Cuadernos de Historia Moderna

since 2017 Advisory Board, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas

Boards of Series

1999-2003 Editorial board: Querschnitte (series of textbooks)

1999-2010 Editorial board: Edition Weltregionen (series of textbooks)

Professional Associations

since 1995 Asociación de historiadores europeos de América Latina (AHILA), Verein für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte

since 2010 Academia Europaea/The European Academy, London

since 2015 Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid

Fellowships

1980/81 Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) for Studies in the Winter Term at the University of Seville
1985 DAAD for 6 Month Archival Studies in Spain
1985-1987 Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dissertation Fellowship
1991-1993 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Habilitation Fellowship, Research in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Spain
1993 John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI, three Months Research Fellowship
since 1994 several Erasmus Teaching Mobility short stays at Gent, Konstanz, Salford, Seville
2018 Research Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, three Months

Research Projects with Doctoral Researchers

2002-2006 Editing the yearly issues of the journal Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, financed by Land Steiermark
2002-2011 Publishing costs for the yearly issues of the journal Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2004-2007 Between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: Seville (1550-1650), financed by FWF - Der Wissenschaftsfonds Österreichs
2009-2010 Die steirische Finanzwirtschaft zu Beginn der Neuzeit: Schuldscheine als Mittel zur Vermehrung der Geldmenge (1515-1635), financed by Fonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank
2008-2012 Cultural and technological transfer from the Southern Atlantic to Central Europe in times of crisis and warefare (1640-1740), financed by FWF - Der Wissenschaftsfonds Österreichs

PhD-Examination and Supervision

External Examination and Supervisor:
1998 Universidad de Sevilla
2005 University Hamburg
2008, 2010 European University Institute (Florence)
2013, 2016 Universidad Complutense (Madrid)
2015 University of Graz
Supervisor at Graz:
2003 Hubert Nagele, Kupfererzbergbau in der Radmer, 1650-1742
2004 Andrea Penz, Inseln der Seligen: Fremdenverkehr in Österreich und Irland von 1900 bis 1938
2008 Eberhard Crailsheim, The Spanish Connection. French and Flemish Merchant Networks in Seville (1570-1650)
2008 Werner Stangl, Zwischen Authentizität und Fiktion: Die private Korrespondenz spanischer Emigranten aus Amerika, 1492-1824
2010 Martin Khull-Kohlwald, Der Adel auf dem Lande und sein Kredit : der Schuldschein als zentrales Finanzinstrument in der Steiermark (1515-1635)
2011 Jutta Wimmler, Body, Mind, Technology: The Influence of the French Caribbean and West Africa on French Culture and Society, ca. 1640 – 1740
2011 Veronika Hyden, Reisende, Migranten, Kulturmanager. Mittlerpersönlichkeiten zwischen Frankreich und dem Wiener Hof 1630–1730
2012 Benita Wister, Kakao: Vom habsburgischen Hofgetränk zur niederländischen Kolonialware. Der Diffusionsprozess der Schokolade in Mitteleuropa vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert vor dem Hintergrund eines konsumspezifischen Kulturtransfers am Beispiel der Steiermark und Westfalens
2012 Roland Bernhard, Geschichtsmythen über Hispanoamerika. Entdeckung, Eroberung und Kolonisierung in deutschen und österreichischen Schulbüchern des 21. Jahrhunderts
2018 Domenic Hofmann, 'Plata o Plomo?' How American Silver Led the Spanish Crown Astray - Promoting the Spanish Mining Sector (1550-1650)
2018 Harald Kleinberger-Pierer, Die visuelle Revolution des Maschinenbildes. Mediale Repräsentation von Technik im 18. Jahrhundert
2019 Peter Paul Marckhgott-Sanabria, Bureaucracy and Mining in Spain, 1675-1700: Late Habsburg Mining Administration as a Prototype for Bourbon Fiscal Reforms

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