Herr PD Dr. Frederik Schulze

Recent Academic Appointments

• 04/2022–09/2023: Substitute Professor for Ibero-American History at the University of Bielefeld
• 11/2021–03/2022: Assistant Professor (wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne
• 04/2013–10/2021: Assistant Professor (wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Global and Latin American History at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
• 09/2017–02/2018: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Knowledge, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
• 04/2008–03/2013: Research Associate and Lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Global and Latin American History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Education

• 10/2021: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: Habilitation in Modern History, venia legendi as of October 25, 2021. Thesis title: “Wissen im Fluss. Der lateinamerikanische Staudammbau im 20. Jh als globale Wissensgeschichte” (reviewers: Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer, Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel, Prof. Dr. Julia Obertreis and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister)
• 05/2014: Freie Universität Berlin: Ph.D. in Modern and Latin American History – “Auswanderung und gescheiterte Kolonialdiskurse: ‘Deutschtum' im südlichen Brasilien (1824–1941)” (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Böttcher), Friedrich Meinecke Prize 2014
• 04/2000–12/2006: Freie Universität Berlin: M.A. in History, Latin American Studies and Musicology

Research Abroad (Selection)

• 09/2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, German Historical Institute in Paris, France
• 05–06/2017: Research in Mexico (sponsored by Heinrich-Hertz-Foundation)
• 02–04/2017: Research in Brazil and Uruguay
• 08–10/2015: Research in Brazil and Venezuela (sponsored by Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation)
• 08–09/2013: PROBRAL-exchange program with PUC-RS, Porto Alegre, Brazil (sponsored by DAAD)
• 08–09/2009: Research in Brazil (sponsored by Center for International Cooperation, Freie Universität Berlin)
• 01–03, 08–09/2008: Research in Brazil (sponsored by DAAD)

Conference Organization (Selection)

• 28–29 November 2022: With Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht), The Globalization of Large Dams, Bielefeld (sponsored by Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld)
• 20–21 July 2022: With Jan Hansen (Berlin), Material Assemblages: Towards a New History of Infrastructure, Herrenhausen Symposium, Hannover (sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation)
• 5–9 November 2021: With Mauricio Dimant (Jerusalem), The Power of Uncertainty: Crises in Contemporary Latin America, Panel at the 12th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, online (sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
• 30 September–1 October 2021: With Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht): A Global History of Dams, online workshop
• 22 July 2019: With Georg Fischer and Luciana Murari, Prospection and Inventory: Changing Meanings of Nature in Latin American History, Panel at the 3. World Congress of Environmental History in Florianópolis/Brazil

Conference Papers
Two keynote speeches and around 60 invited papers at conferences and seminars in Germany, the U.S., Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, including the Australian Historical Association, Deutscher Historikertag, German Historical Museum Berlin, German Studies Association, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Water History Conference.

Teaching
25 semesters of (undergraduate and graduate) teaching experience in History at the following institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Bielefeld University, Universidade de São Paulo, PUC-RS Porto Alegre.