Laura Dierksmeier (PhD)

Postdoc in SFB 1070, Universität Tübingen

SFB1070

Universität Tübingen

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Postdoc in SFB1070 "Resource Cultures," Universität Tübingen, Subproject C05: Inselökonomien Eine vergleichende Studie von Insel-Gesellschaften im späten Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

Former position(s)

Postdoc in Grk 1662: "Religious Knowledge in Premodern Europe," Universität Tübingen, 2016 - 2017.

Research Assistant, and PhD Student, Early Modern History, Universität Tübingen, Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, 2012 - 2016.

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan-Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700 (Academy of American Franciscan History, 2020)

Articles

“Water Scarcity at Sea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Preservation of Freshwater on Volcanic Islands” (mit F. Schön), erscheint 2020/2021.

RessourcenKulturen. Konzepte und Anwendungen, Hrsg S. Teuber. Universität Tübingen Press, erscheint 2020.

Teaching Insularity: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives (mit A. Kouremenos), SHIMA: The International Journal into Research of Island Cultures, 2020, 284 – 297.

Forbidden Herbs? Alzate’s Defense of Pipilzitzintles, Colonial Latin American Review 29(2), erscheint Mai 2020, 263 –286.

Cultural History of Fresh Island Water in Early Modern Spain in Waters as a Resource, Hrsg S. Teuber. (SFB1070, University of Tuebingen Press), erscheint 2020.

“The Narrower the Divide, the Deeper the Trench: Bartolomé de las Casas and Toribio de Motolinía” in Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion. Hrsg. R. Roldán-Figueroa und D.Orique, O.P. (Boston: Brill), 2018, 348 –391.

“From Isolation to Inclusion: Confraternities in Urban Colonial Mexico” in Space, Place & Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Early Modern City, Hrsg. D.Presciutti (Boston: Brill), 2017, 68 – 87.

Edited volumes

European Islands Between Isolated and Interconnected Life Worlds (with F. Schön, A. Condit, V. Palmowski, und A.Kouremenos), SFB 1070, Universität Tübingen Press, in Juni 2020 abgegeben.

Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492 –1800, mit F. Fechner und K.Takeda, SFB 1070, Universität Tübingen Press, erscheint 2020/2021.

Areas of research

Research Areas: Environmental History, Atlantic World, Insularity Theory, Religious History of Latin America

Topics: island history, water management, confraternities, Indigenous knowledge, missionary science, sea navigation, cartography

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