Funded Projects
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 Practices of Comparing (funded by the German Research Council)
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) is a university-based Center for Advanced Studies founded by a consortium of Latin American and German universities. The University of Guadalajara, Mexico, houses the head office of CALAS while three regional offices are located at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador; the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica; and the Universidad Nacional San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The German Universities Bielefeld, Kassel, Hanover and Jena are responsible for the project management. In addition, numerous other universities and research facilities from all over Latin America are associated with CALAS. Together with Bielefeld colleague and CALAS director Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier and two colleagues from Guadalajara I will coordinate the research group Coping with Environmental Crises, which is scheduled to start working at the center in 2021.
Other Research Projects
- Encountering the Tropics and Transforming Unfamiliar Environments in the Caribbean, 1494 to 1804
- Historical Perspectives on Climate Change Aadaptation