Prof. Dr. Michael Max Paul Zeuske

Michael Zeuske is focusing on different forms of dependency in the Atlantic slavery (1450-1886), in the global history of slavery and in different local slaveries and slave trades on a micro-historical level as well (life histories of enslaved people and slave traders). Dependencies on these different forms and levels between "Slavery and Freedom“ are interesting to examine in the beginnings of the processes of enslavement, as well as in the relations among the enslaved (ritualized forms of kinship) and in the relations of love and sex between enslaved women and slavers (slave traders as well as slave holders). We are unaware if these types of relations were also important between enslaved men and slavers/holders (and there are only very few examples of relations between enslaved men and slaveholding women). We also know extremely little about religious dependencies of enslaved children in the Eastern hemisphere enclaves under Portuguese control.

17 books, 21 edited volumes, 196 papers. 250 national and international lectures, 3 completed and one ongoing habilitation, 25 completed and 10 ongoing Ph.D. supervisions, 185 supervised Diploma and Magister theses, 30 Master and 45 Bachelor theses.

1991
Habilitation/Venia legendi in Modern History 1500–1917, Global History

1980–1983
Ph.D., University of Leipzig, Germany

1976–1981
Studies in History and Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany

1993–2019
Professor for Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne, Germany

1992
Professor for Comparative History and Ibero-American History at the Department of History, University of Leipzig, Germany

1984–1991
Research Associate of the Department of History, University of Leipzig, Germany

since 2012
Corresponding member of the Academia de la Historia (La Habana)

2009–2014
Member of the editorial board of the "International Review for Social History"

2007–present
Co-editor "Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte"

1991–present
Co-founder and co-editor of the journal "COMPARATIV. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsgeschichte"

2016–2020
La configuración de los espacios atlánticos ibéricos. Ministerio de Economía y Competividad (head: Prof. Santiago de Luxán Méndez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, HAR2015-66142-R)

2015–2018
International Research Project: La participación española en el tráfico de esclavos y los legados de la esclavitud en España (1765–1886)" (MINECO/FEDER HAR2015-67365P - Prof. Dr. Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

2010–present
Research Network "International Research Seminar on the Second Slavery", Fernand Braudel Center, University of Binghampton (SUNY), University of Cologne, set of Universities from USA, Brazil, France, Latin America

2007–2011
proyecto de investigación "Santiago de Cuba” (HQ2007-62149/HIST), Directorate-General of the Ministry of the Environment, investigador principal: Juan Andreo García

2007–2010
fellow of the research project "Global Labor Relations" (responsible for the Latin America section 1500–2000) IISH Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003–present
"The Law in Slavery and Freedom", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA