Chair of Modern History | Christian Stenz
Research Associate
Contact:
Department of History
Grabengasse 3-5
Room 224 (2nd floor)
D-Heidelberg 69117
Email: christian.stenz@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours: Tuesday 13-14
Christian Stenz holds a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Zurich and an MA from the University of Heidelberg. He is currently a PhD student and research assistant at the Chair of Modern History in Heidelberg. He is working on a project about German-speaking planters and collectors in Guatemala in the second half of the 19th century. He is investigating the intersection of collecting practices and the management of a plantation and their fundamental importance for the establishment of a "racial capitalism" in modern Guatemala.
His research interests include the social and economic history and cultural history of Central and Latin America in a global context, with a particular focus on the history of knowledge, collecting, the environment and material culture(s). He teaches courses on colonialism, transimperial history and European expansion in the "long" 19th century. Visits and field trips to archives and museum collections are an important part of this teaching activity.
CV
Kantonsschule Wohlen 2012-2015
Eidgenössische Maturität
University of Zurich 2016-2019
B.A. in History and Political Sciences
Tutor of Historical and Scientific Research
University of Heidelberg 2019-2022
M.A. in History
Tutor of Historical and Scientific Research 2020-2022
Student Assistant for the Chair of Modern History
Deutsches Historisches Institut (DHI) Paris September and October 2021
Internship
University of Heidelberg Winter Term 22/23
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Teaching
Summer Term 23
Proseminar: Plantation Economies in Postcolonial Central and Southern America
Exkursion: Exkursion ins Linden-Museum, Stuttgart
Winter Term 22/23
Proseminar: Kolonialismus mit und ohne Kolonien im «langen 19. Jahrhundert»¨
Exkursion: Koloniale Spurensuche im Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
Publications
Stenz, Christian: Abgrenzung und Assimilation. Der Historische Verein der Fünf Orte von 1843-1860 zwischen Politik und wissenschaftlichem Selbstverständnis, in: Der Geschichtsfreund 174 (2021), S. 125-143.
Talks and Conferences
From the Temple Ceiling to the Museum Wall. How the Tikal Lintels Became Ethnographic Objects, presented at the Conference “Things on the Move – Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700-1900”, 08.09.22-10.09.22 at the German Historical Institute in London, online: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-129160.
Memberships
AG Latin American History in Global Perspective der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF), online: https://www.uni-bremen.de/geschichte-lateinamerikas/forschung/adlaf.
