Richard Herzog 

Postdoc: A03 — Dynastic marriage

Career

Current Research Project

• "Intercultural Marriage Politics and Security in Colonial Ibero-America"
• Maintenance of the database and website "Dynastische Eheverträge der Frühen Neuzeit (1500-1800)"

Key research activities

• Ibero-America and early modern Spain
• Global and Colonial History
• Mesoamerica, Ethno-history of the Nahua (Aztecs)
• Decolonial Studies
• Food Studies
• Digital Humanities
• History of Emotions

Scholarships

DAAD Stipend

• Research stay at the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla (09/2018 – 10/2018)

Travel Grant (GCSC)

• Research stay at the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla (03/2018 – 04/2018)

Travel Grant (GCSC)

• Research stay at the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexiko-Stadt (07/2017 – 10/2017)

Publications

• “Temporality and narrative structure in the works of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de Chimalpahin”, in: Johannes Paulmann, Lyndal Roper, Noëmie Duhaut (Hg.): Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Berlin (in review, Publikation 2022).
• “A 19th Century Woman in Power in South Asia: An Inspiring Path of Life for Struggles Against Injustice”, in: Béatrice Hendrich (Hg.): Female Fighters in diverse world regions and organizations, Oxfordshire (in review).
• “Conferring a Universal Scope to Nahua Political Concepts: An aim in the works of Domingo de Chimalpahin (early 17th Century)”, in: Laura Dierksmeier, Fabian Fechner, Kazuhisa Takeda (Hg.): Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800, Tübingen 2021.
• “Acolhua Past and Novohispanic Merit: Self and Community in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Struggles for a Cacicazgo”, in: Stefan Rinke, Nikolaus Böttcher, Nino Vallen (Hg.): Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, Historamericana 44, Stuttgart 2019.
• „Die Legende der Rani von Jhansi und ihre Verwendung im indischen Nationalismus“, in: CrossAsia Repository (CrossAsia E-Publishing), Heidelberg/Berlin 2016.
• “Conceptions of Time and History in New Spain: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca (~1625)“, in: Global Histories: a student journal, Bd. 1, 2015.

Reviews / conference proceedings

• “How Aztecs Reacted to Colonial Epidemics”, journalistischer Artikel, JSTOR Daily, 09/2020.
• “Extraktivismus und Widerstand in Lateinamerika. Workshop am GCSC, Gießen, 26.-28. Juni 2018”, Tagungsbericht, in: Wissenschaft & Frieden, n. 4, 2018.
• „Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Seite an Seite – Das koloniale Mexiko aus indigener Sicht“, Rezension von Peter Villella, „Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800“, in: KULT_online, [S.l.], n. 50, 2017.

Teaching

•  SoSe 2019: Quellenübung „Legitimierung kolonialer Herrschaft. Das spanische Imperium im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert“, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen
• SoSe 2018: Quellenübung „Die Eroberung Mexikos aus spanischer und indigener Perspektive“, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen

Workshops & other activities

• Mit-Organisation des Panels “Colonial Native Historiography: Between Historical Traditions and Future Collective Imaginaries” mit Dr. Antje Gunsenheimer, Tagung “Future today / yesterday / tomorrow – Visions of future(s) in the Americas”. Dazu eigener Vortrag “Cosmogony and Prophecy in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Writings“, Universität Bonn, 2019.
• Mit-Organisation des Workshops “Logics of Extractive Occupation and Collective Action in Latin America”, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2018.
• Editorial Board member at „On_Culture - The Open Journal for the Study of Culture“, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Gießen (11/2017 – 03/2019)

 Lectures (selection)

•  „Nahua-Stimmen aus dem kolonialen Zentral-Mexiko: für das Überleben ihrer politisch-gesellschaftlichen Überzeugungen (frühes 17. Jahrhundert)", Oberseminar Frühe Neuzeit, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2021.
• “Conferring a Universal Scope to Nahua Political Concepts: An Aim in the Works of Domingo Chimalpahin (Early 17th Century)”, Joint Mainz-Oxford-Graduate Workshop: European History across Boundaries, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, 2021.
• “The View from Mexico City: Domingo de Chimalpahin’s political concepts in a global perspective (early 17th century)”, Global Cultural History – 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Tallinn University, Estonia, 2019.
• „’The Great altepetl of Salamanca’: Political Organisation between Colonial Mexico and Europe in the Works of Domingo de Chimalpahin (Early 17th Century)”, Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2018.
•  “Anáhuac to New Spain – Native locality and narrative strategy in the writings of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de Chimalpahin (early 17th century)“, Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires, (15th-19th centuries), Universität von Évora, 2018.
• “Building on Iberian and Nahua Precursors: Native Authors and altepetl in Central New Spain“, Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 2017.
• „‘Instrumentos de tanto bien’? Matrilineality and Native Women’s Agency in Early Colonial Mexico“, Lecture Series: Exploring decolonial and queer feminisms, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2017.
• „Politischer Raum und Erbe bei Autoren indigener Abstammung Neu-Spaniens“, Oberseminar Frühe Neuzeit, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2017.