Stefan Rinke

Stefan Rinke is a German historian. Since 2005, he has been professor of Latin American History at the Latin American Institute and at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin.

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Biography

After graduating from the Gymnasium Julianum in Helmstedt in 1984, Stefan Rinke studied history and American studies in Bamberg and Bowling Green from 1985 to 1990. He completed his studies 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 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt with a thesis on German-Latin American relations during the Weimar Republic from a transnational perspective. His advisor was. The thesis was published in 1996 as the first volume of the Historamericana series, which was founded by König and Rinke. From 2021 to 2024, the Historamericana series was published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft and has since been continued by Herder Verlag in Freiburg im Breisgau. The volumes are available as Open Access Gold and Print on Demand.
From 1996 to 1998, the German Research Foundation granted him a postdoctoral fellowship. During this time he spent research periods in Santiago de Chile and Washington D.C., among other places. In September 1998 he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor for the Comparative History of the Americas and Europe at Tufts University, where he taught until 1999.
In 1999 Stefan Rinke took up a position as assistant professor in Eichstätt. In 2003, he qualified as a professor with a thesis on North Americanization and socio-cultural change in Chile. In 2005, he was appointed professor of Latin American history at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2007 to 2009, from 2017 to 2019, and from 2023 to 2024, Rinke was chairman of the institute council of the Latin American Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Research focus

Stefan Rinke explores the history of Latin America primarily from a transregional and global historical perspective. His research focuses on cultural globalization and North Americanization, popular culture, revolutions, memory and historical consciousness, history of knowledge, trans-American relations, temporality and future. They cover the period from colonial times, the independence period, the 19th century, the 20th century to contemporary history. His territorial focus lies on Chilean and Mexican history, among others.

International activities

Stefan Rinke has been 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 spokesperson of the first German-Latin American Research Training Group, a cooperation with Mexican partners dedicated to interdisciplinary research on globalization in history and the present. In the Collaborative Research Center 700 "Governance in Spaces of Limited Statehood" he served as co-spokesperson from 2010 to 2017.
In 2014 he organized the European Congress of Historians of Latin America at Freie Universität and was president of the from 2014 to 2017.
Since 2019, Stefan Rinke has been the spokesperson of the International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation," a German-Mexican cooperation dedicated to researching temporalities of the future in the humanities and social sciences. From 2019 to 2022, he also directed an oral history project on Colonia Dignidad in Chile, funded by the German Foreign Office on behalf of the German Bundestag.
In the project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Rinke and his team have been investigating since 2021 the effects of telenovelas and series in Latin America on the political attitudes and historical consciousness of viewers. Since 2023, he is also head of the research project Selbstzeugnisse von Juden nach der Rückkehr aus Lateinamerika nach Berlin, which is funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Stefan Rinke is a host to numerous scholarship holders and researchers from all over the world. He also successfully nominated the historians. He has also successfully nominated the historians Hilda Sabato, Irina Podgorny, Raanan Rein, Max Paul Friedman, Ricardo Pérez Montfort, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Diego Armus for Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Awards.
He has supervised numerous award-winning doctoral theses. His students hold professorships in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Colombia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru and Switzerland. In his department, a successfully completed habilitation as well as many postdoctoral projects of researchers from Germany and abroad have been developed so far.
Rinke is a member of the advisory board of the German Historical Institute Washington D.C. and Berkeley, the Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Avanzados in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. He is also a member of the editorial board of international scientific journals. He regularly reviews for academic publishers, journals and scientific organizations on three continents.

Awards and honors

In 2003, Stefan Rinke was awarded the Eichstätter Universitätsgesellschaft 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 awarded the Premio Alzate of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología for his complete works. In 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 a corresponding member. Rinke was honored a Talent Scout in the Henriette Herz Scouting Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2020.

Authored works (selection)

Conquistadoren und Azteken. Cortés und die Eroberung Mexikos. C. H. Beck, München 2019,

* English: Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan. Oxford University Press, 2023.
* Spanish: Conquistadores y aztecas. Cortés y la conquista de México. edaf, 2021.
with, Mariano Delgado, Friedrich Edelmayer, Nikolas Jaspert und Ursula Prutsch: Weltreich Spanien: Das Goldene Zeitalter. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2019, Lateinamerika. Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, Im Sog der Katastrophe. Lateinamerika und der Erste Weltkrieg. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015,
* English: Latin America and the First World War. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2017,
* Spanish: América Latina y la primera Guerra Mundial. Una historia global. FCE, Mexiko 2019, Kolumbus und der Tag von Guanahani 1492. Ein Wendepunkt der Geschichte. Theiss, Stuttgart 2013,
with Frederik Schulze: Kleine Geschichte Brasiliens. Beck, München 2013, Lateinamerika und die USA. Eine Geschichte zwischen Räumen – von der Kolonialzeit bis heute.. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012,
* Spanish: América Latina y Estados Unidos. Una historia entre espacios desde la época colonial hasta hoy. Marcial Pons/El Colegio de México, Madrid/México 2015,
* Portuguese: América Latina e Estados Unidos. Uma história entre espaços - do período colonial aos dias atuais. Autografía/EDUPE, Rio de Janeiro, 2015.Revolutionen in Lateinamerika. Wege in die Unabhängigkeit, 1760–1830. Beck, München 2010,
* Spanish: Las revoluciones en América Latina: Las vías a la independencia, 1760–1830. El Colegio de México, México 2011, Geschichte Lateinamerikas. Von den frühesten Kulturen bis zur Gegenwart. Beck-Wissen. Beck, München 2010,
* Turkish: Latin Amerika Tarihi: Ilk Uygarliklardan Bugüne. Runik Kitap, Istanbul 2021.
* Portuguese: História de América Latina: Das Culturas Pre-Colombianas até o Presente. ediPUCRS, Porto Alegre 2012,
* Spanish: Historia de Latinoamérica. Desde las primeras culturas hasta el presente. El Colegio de México, México, 2016.Kleine Geschichte Chiles. Beck, München 2007, Begegnungen mit dem Yankee: Nordamerikanisierung und soziokultureller Wandel in Chile, 1898–1990. Böhlau, Köln 2004,
* Spanish: Encuentros con el yanqui: norteamericanización y cambio sociocultural en Chile 1898–1990. DIBAM, Santiago de Chile 2013, Cultura de masas, reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931. Universidad Católica/Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, Valparaiso 2002, „Der letzte freie Kontinent“. Deutsche Lateinamerikapolitik im Zeichen transnationaler Beziehungen, 1918–1933. 2 Teilbände. Heinz, Stuttgart 1996, Zwischen Weltpolitik und Monroe Doktrin: Botschafter Speck von Sternburg und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1898–1908. Heinz, Stuttgart 1992,

Edited works (selection)

with Philipp Kandler and Dorothee Wein : Colonia Dignidad: Neue Debatten und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven.
with Karina Kriegesmann : Aufbrüche und Umbrüche: 50 Jahre Lateinamerika Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-38622.
with Carlos Riojas : Repensar el “Mundo”: Reflexiones y representaciones globales ,.
with Carlos Riojas : América Latina y la historia global: Repensar el mundo,.
with Carlos Alba Vega and Marianne Braig, La violencia en América Latina entre espacios temporales del pasado y del futuro.
with Nelson Chacón : Recopilación de fuentes para la historia Mapuche, siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX: edición y comentarios, .
with Federico Navarrete and Nino Vallen : Der Codex Mendoza: Das Meisterwerk aztekisch-spanischer Buchkultur, .
with Christian Cwik and Hans-Joachim König : Diktaturen in Lateinamerika im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, .
with Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin : Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America. Jewish Latin America, Vol. 12, .
with Nikolaus Böttcher and Nino Vallen : Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern World.
with : Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective.
with Carlos Riojas : Historia global: perspectivas y tensiones.
with Raanan Rein and Nadia Zysman : The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America.
with Mónika Contreras Saiz and Tajana Louis : Memoria y conflicto - memorias en conflicto: intercambios metódicos y teóricos de experiencias locales latinoamericanas .
with Ingrid Kummels, Claudia Rauhut and Birte Timm : Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practice, Ideas.
with : Expert Knowledge in Latin American History: Local, Transnational, and Global Perspectives.
with Mónika Contreras Saiz and Lasse Hölck : Gobernanza y seguridad: la conquista republicana de las fronteras latinoamericanas en el siglo XIX.
with Diego Armus : Del football al fútbol/futebol: Historias argentinas, brasileras y uruguayas en el siglo XX.
with Kay Schiller : The FIFA World Cup 1930–2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities.
with Carlos Alba and : Latin America and Asia – Relations in the context of Globalization from Colonial Times to the Present. América Latina y Asia – relaciones en el context de la globalización de la época colonia hasta el presente.
with Christina Peters : Global Play: Football Between Region, Nation, and the World in Latin American, African, and European History.
with Georg Fischer, Christina Peters, Frederik Schulze : Brasilien in der Welt: Region, Nation und Globalisierung, 1870–1945.
with Carlos Alba, and Guillermo Zermeño : Entre Espacios: Movimientos, actores y representaciones de la globalización.
with Hans-Peter Hinz and Frederik Schulze : Bicentenario: 200 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Lateinamerika. Geschichte zwischen Erinnerung und Zukunft.
with Inga Luther, Nina Elsemann and Franka Bindernagel : Erinnerung schreibt Geschichte: Lateinamerika und Europa im Kontext transnationaler Verflechtungen..
with Helmut Bley, and Kirsten Rüther, ed. of the dimension Global Interaction, Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, 16 vols...
with editor of the book series HISTORAMERICANA.
with Jörg Baberowski and editor of the book series Eigene und Fremde Welten
Co-editor of the book series Inter-American Perspectives.
Co-editor of Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani,.
Co-editor of Geschichte und Gesellschaft,.
Co-editor of Iberoamericana: América Latina, España, Portugal..