Institute of History

Research Projects

Research of the Chair of Iberian and Latin American History

Ongoing research projects

Funding by VolkswagenStiftung, Turning Land into Capital
SNSF-Project, From mission to cooperation. Liberation theology and the emergence and transformation of social movements in the Andean region (1960s -1980s)

Ongoing Research Projects

International Research Project

Turning Land into Capital

The project «Turning Land into Capital» aims to understand the role of land as a means of (re)producing wealth in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses particularly on the two historical periods from the 1860s to the Great Depression of 1929 and from the 1980s to the 2020s.

SNSF Research Project

From mission to cooperation. Liberation theology

From a comparative and transnational perspective, this research project investigates the Catholic Church and its role in the development of peasant and indigenous movements in Ecuador and Peru from the 1960s to the 1980s.