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Dr. Richard Herzog

Postdoc: subproject A03 - Dynastic marriage

  • Contact

    Philipps-Universität Marburg
    SFB 138
    Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6
    35032 Marburg

    ☎ 06421 28-24477

  • Vita

    Since 2021
    Research associate at the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 138 "Dynamics of Security"

    2021
    Doctorate (Dr. Phil.) at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Dissertation topic: "Nahua voices from colonial Central Mexico: For the survival of their political-social beliefs (early 17th century)

    2019 - 2020
    PhD scholarship at the Leibnitz Institute of European History, Mainz

    2016 - 2019
    PhD scholarship at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen

    2015
    Internship at the History Research Department, Ibero-American Institute Berlin

    2013 - 2015
    Research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

    M.A. program in Global History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

    2010 - 2011
    Study abroad at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

    2008 - 2012
    BA in History and English Studies, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

  • Research interests

    Ibero-America and early modern Spain
    Global and colonial history
    Mesoamerica, ethno-history of the Nahua (Aztecs)
    Food History
    Digital Humanities
    Decolonial Studies
    History of emotions

  • Current reserach projects

    Interkulturelle Ehepolitik und Sicherheit im kolonialzeitlichen Iberoamerika.

    The Radical Transformation of Lifeways and Emotions Through Food Transfer Between Spanish America and Europe.

    Betreuung der Datenbank und Website "Dynastische Eheverträge der Frühen Neuzeit (1500-1800)"

  • Teaching

    Summer Term 2023
    Proseminar „Weltbilder und Hierarchien in Iberoamerika (16.-18. Jahrhundert)“, Philipps-Universität Marburg

    Summer Term 2019
    Quellenübung „Legitimierung kolonialer Herrschaft. Das spanische Imperium im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert“, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen

    Summer Term 2018
    Quellenübung „Die Eroberung Mexikos aus spanischer und indigener Perspektive“, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen

  • Awards

    2022
    Preis der Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte

  • Publications

    to be published
    Nahua-Stimmen aus dem kolonialen Zentralmexiko. Für das Überleben ihrer politisch-gesellschaftlichen Überzeugungen, Darmstadt: WBG.

    2023
    A woman in Power 19th-century South Asia: An Inspiring life path for struggles against injustice”, in: Béatrice Hendrich (Hrsg.): Female Fighters in Armed Conflict. Listening to their own stories, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 21-38.

    2022
    Temporality and narrative structure in the works of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de Chimalpahin, in: Paulmann et al. (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Berlin.

    2021
    Conferring a Universal Scope to Nahua Political Concepts: An aim in the works of Domingo de Chimalpahin (early 17th Century), in:  Dierksmeier, Laura/Fechner, Fabian/ Takeda, Kazuhisa (Hrsg.): Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800, Tübingen.

    2019
    Acolhua Past and Novohispanic Merit: Self and Community in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Struggles for a Cacicazgo, in: Rinke, Stefan/Böttcher, Nikolaus/Vallen, Nino (Hrsg.): Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, Historamericana 44, Stuttgart.

    2016
    Die Legende der Rani von Jhansi und ihre Verwendung im indischen Nationalismus, in: CrossAsia Repository (CrossAsia E-Publishing), Heidelberg/Berlin 2016.

    2015
    Conceptions of Time and History in New Spain: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca (~1625), in: Global Histories: A student Journal, Band 1.

  • Reviews & conference reports

    2020
    How Aztecs Reacted to Colonial Epidemics”, journalistischer Artikel, JSTOR Daily, 09/2020.

    2018
    “Extraktivismus und Widerstand in Lateinamerika. Workshop am GCSC, Gießen, 26.-28. Juni 2018”, Tagungsbericht, in: Wissenschaft & Frieden, Nr. 4.

    2017
    Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Seite an Seite – Das koloniale Mexiko aus indigener Sicht. Rezension von Peter Villella, „Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800“, in: KULT online, Nr. 50.

  • Talks (selected)

    2023
    “Spanish and Nahua Views on Colonial Policies and their Effects on Cocoliztli Epidemics (16th-17th centuries).” Konferenz: Bodies, Remedies, Policies: From Early Modern Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narratives, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.

    2022
    “Matrilineality and Native Female Rulership as Told by Nahua Historians of Early Colonial Mexico.” Konferenz: The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media, Philipps-Universität Marburg.

    “The Lasting Transgressive Power of Nahua Female Rulership in Central Mexico”. Konferenz:  Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World 1500–1850, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main.

    2021
    “Conferring a Universal Scope to Nahua Political Concepts: An Aim in the Works of Domingo Chimalpahin (Early 17th Century)”, Joint Mainz-Oxford-Graduate Workshop: European History across Boundaries, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz

    2019
    “The View from Mexico City: Domingo de Chimalpahin’s political concepts in a global perspective (early 17th century)”, Konferenz: Global Cultural History – 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Tallinn University, Estonia.

    2018
    „’The Great altepetl of Salamanca’: Political Organisation between Colonial Mexico and Europe in the Works of Domingo de Chimalpahin (Early 17th Century)”, Konferenz: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

     “Anáhuac to New Spain – Native locality and narrative strategy in the writings of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de Chimalpahin (early 17th century)“, Konferenz: Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires, (15th-19th centuries), Universität von Évora.

    2017
    “Building on Iberian and Nahua Precursors: Native Authors and altepetl in Central New Spain“, Konferenz: Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität Berlin.

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