Florian Wieser (BA, MA (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship)
Thesis title: Survivance between Empires: Black and Indigenous American Existence within the French-Spanish Conflict of the Circum-Caribbean, 1559-1697
Year of study: 4
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: F.Wieser@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
I was born and educated in Germany, completing my undergraduate and graduate degrees at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Early in my studies I developed an interest in colonial history and began to focus on the early modern Spanish empire and especially the marginalised groups within it. To further this research, I spent a semester studying at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid via the ERASMUS programme. I have researched history of sexuality and gender, history of the body and medicine, and discursive history. For my PhD project, I am looking at the role of Black and Indigenous American people in the space between the French and Spanish colonial empires in the circum-Caribbean region. My PhD research is funded by the Scottish Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). In 2024, I also completed a Visiting Doctoral Researchership at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
CV
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Current research interests
early modern history (sixteenth-century history, seventeenth-century history); colonial and imperial history; Spanish history; French history; Black history and slavery studies; indigenous peoples' history; history of sexuality and gender; history of the body; discursive history- 2017 “‘… und ich weiß, dass sie alle Sodomiten sind:’ Diskurse von Macht, Männlichkeit und Homosexualitäten in Darstellungen des frühkolonialen Neuspanien (Mexiko).” Invertito: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten 19: 10–39. (in German, read here: https://www.academia.edu/42126142/_und_ich_wei%C3%9F_dass_sie_alle_Sodomiten_sind_Diskurse_von_Macht_M%C3%A4nnlichkeit_und_Homosexualit%C3%A4ten_in_Darstellungen_des_fr%C3%BChkolonialen_Neuspanien_Mexiko_)
- 2019 “Talking to Strange Men: The Bodily Masculinity of the Racial Other in Early Modern Spain's Global Empire.” Global Histories: A Student Journal 5, no. 2: 40–57. (read here: https://www.academia.edu/41450815/Talking_to_Strange_Men_The_Bodily_Masculinity_of_the_Ethnic_Other_in_Early_Modern_Spains_Global_Empire)
- 2023 with Annemarie Kinzelbach, “A New Concept for Surgery in European Hospitals? Records of Practice in Germany, Italy, and Spain During the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. (read here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-022-00355-6)
- 2023 “The Ten Plagues of the New World: The Sensemaking of Epidemic Depopulation in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica”, in Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes, ed. Hanneke van Asperen and Lotte Jensen (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), 157–176. (read here: https://www.academia.edu/103246297/The_Ten_Plagues_of_the_New_World_The_Sensemaking_of_Epidemic_Depopulation_in_Sixteenth_Century_Mesoamerica)