Dr. Andreas Riffel
Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History
Research Associate
Contact:
University of Heidelberg
Department of History
Grabengasse 3-5
D-69117 Heidelberg
Room: 044A
Phone: +49 (0) 62 21 / 54 - 3361
E-Mail: andreas.riffel@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours:
by appointment
Dissertation:
"Greasers, Gringos, and Atrocities in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848"
CV:
Andreas Riffel earned his university entrance qualification in 2003. Thereafter he spent several months in Peru doing voluntary work. From April 2004 to July 2009 he studied History and Romance Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) at Heidelberg University and the University of Seville (Spain). He completed his M.A. with a thesis titled “Greasers and Gringos. Stereotypes, Discrimination, and Violence between Americans and Mexicans in the Center of the 19th Century”. He worked as a student academic assistant at the Heidelberg University Archives (July 2006 to July 2007) and as a tutor for graduate students at the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at Heidelberg University (October 2009 to January 2010), where he is a research associate since April 2010. From May to August 2011, the German Historical Institute Washington DC sponsored his archival research by a doctoral fellowship. He handed in the manuscript of his dissertation "Greasers, Gringos, and Atrocities in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848" in mid-March 2016.
Teaching:
- Winter Term 2010/11: "The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848"
- Winter Term 2011/12: "German Immigration to the U.S."
- Winter Term 2012/13: "Imperial Wizards, Fiery Crosses and Racist Terrorism: The Ku Klux Klan, 1866 to Today"
- Winter Term 2013/14: "Providence has so ordained it': Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion in the 19th Century"
- Winter Term 2014/15: "The American Revolution, 1763-1791"
- Winter Term 2015/16: "The History of the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S."
Publications:
Articles:
The Invisible Empire – der Ku Klux Klan von 1866-1871 als Geheimgesellschaft, in: Jacob, Frank (Hg.): Geheimgesellschaften: Kulturhistorische Sozialstudien / Secret Societies: Comparative Studies in Culture, Society and History, Würzburg 2013, S. 237-273.
Conference Reports:
Together with Sophie Lorenz: Conference Report Toward an International History of Lynching. 04.06.2010-06.06.2010, Heidelberg, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.07.2010, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=3210>; also published in AHF-Information, 2010, Nr.150, <http://www.ahf-muenchen.de/Tagungsberichte/Berichte/pdf/2010/150-10.pdf>.