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Stefan Rinke


Stefan Rinke (born December 31, 1965) is a German historian and specialist in Latin American history. Since 2005 he has been Professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin.

Born in Helmstedt, West Germany, Rinke studied History and American Studies at the universities of Bamberg and Bowling Green (Ohio). He earned a Master of Arts at Bowling Green in 1990 and a Diploma in History at Bamberg in 1990. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation awarded him a Doctoral Fellowship from 1991 to 1993 and in 1995 he earned his doctorate at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt with a study on German-Latin American relations in the period of the Weimar Republic from a transnational perspective. His tutor was Hans-Joachim König. The thesis was published as the first volume in the series HISTORAMERICANA edited by König and Rinke. Funded by a Postdoc Fellowship of the German Research Fund (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) he did research in Santiago de Chile and in Washington D.C. In September 1998 he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor for the Comparative History of the Americas and Europe at Tufts University where he taught until 1999.

In that year Rinke became Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) in Eichstätt. In 2003 he completed his thesis of Habilitation on North Americanization and Socio-Cultural Change in Chile. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Latin American History at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2007 bis 2009 he served as director of the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Since 2009 he is chairman of the first German-Latin American Graduate School („Between Spaces – Entre Espacios“), a cooperation with Mexican partners, which studies globalization in past and present from an interdisciplinary angle. Rinke is also speaker of Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”.


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