Dr. Matti Steinitz

Since 04/2016: Research associate at Bielefeld University
- Research and teaching position in North American and InterAmerican Studies, specialising in Hemispheric Black Studies
- Coordination of the international research network "Black Americas Network"
- Organisation of international conferences and symposia

Since 1999: Freelance journalist
- Publications in Latin America News, Tagesspiegel, junge Welt, Neues Deutschland, Wax Poetics (USA), Página/12 (Argentina), Brecha (Uruguay), among others

10/2008- 12/2012 Student assistant at the Institute for Comparative Educational Science at HU Berlin
- Translation and proofreading of German, English and Spanish texts - editing and formatting of various scientific publications and book projects

INTERNSHIP
010/2005 - 04/2006 Semanario Brecha, Montevideo (weekly magazine Uruguay) - interviews, articles, reports, research

STUDIES
10/2000 - 08/2013 Freie Universität Berlin, Master's degree in Latin American Studies (major subject), North American Studies (1st minor subject), Political Science (2nd minor subject)
- Master's thesis: "The influence of the Black Power Movement in Latin America" (grade 1.0)

KNOWLEDGE/ SKILLS
English/Spanish: business fluent in spoken and written
Portuguese: very good knowledge
French: very good knowledge

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Monograph:
Black Power in Latin America -- North-South Dialogues in the Afro-Atlantic Diaspora, WeltTrends Verlag, Potsdam 2015
Editorship:
Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective : Movements and Cultures of Resistance in the Black Americas (with Wilfried Raussert), WVT/New Orleans University Press, 2022
Book chapter:
"Black Power in a paraíso racial? The Black Rio movement, U.S. Soul music, and Afro-Brazilian mobilisations under military rule (1970-1976)", in: Politics of Entanglement in the Americas: Connecting Transnational Flows and Local Perspectives, ed. by Lukas Rehm, Jochen Kemner, Olaf Kaltmeier, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017.
"'Calling Out Around the World' - How Soul music transnationalised the African-American freedom struggle", in: Sonic Politics. Music and Social Movements in the Americas from the 1960s to the present, ed. by Wilfried Raussert and Olaf Kaltmeier, Routledge, 2019.
"'We Got Latin Soul!' Transbarrio dialogues and Afro-Latin identity formation in New York's Puerto Rican community during the age of Black Power (1966-1972)", in: Human Rights in the Americas, ed. by Luz Kirschner, Maria Herrera Sobek, Francisco Lomeli, Routledge, 2021.
"Hemispheric Ambassador of Black Power: Carlos E. Russell and the Practice of Pan-Afro-Americanism between New York and Panama". Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective: Movements and Cultures of Resistance in the Black Americas, Ed. Wilfried Raussert and Matti Steinitz, New Orleans and Trier: WVT/New Orleans University Press, 2022
Academic Journals:
"Technologies and Social Change in the Americas: Introduction" (with W. Raussert, Olak Kaltmeier, Mario Rufer & Robert Curley), in: FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research 14 (2021).
"Soulful Sancocho - Soul Music and Practices of Hemispheric Black Transnationalism in 1960s and 1970s Panama", in: The Black Scholar, 52:1 (2022): 15-26.
"Diálogos afro-hemisféricos. "Soul music y transnacionalismo negro en contextos afrolatinoamericanos", in: PerspectivasAfro 2:2(2023): 351-370