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Dr. Sebastian Huhn
Osnabrück University
Modern History/ IMIS
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
Room 03/226a
49069 Osnabrück
Tel. +49 541 969 4233
sebastian.huhn [ at ] uos.de
Dr. Sebastian Huhn
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Profile
Historian and Political Scientist
Senior Researcher at the Department for Modern History
Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS)
Costa Rica Center
Current research project (German Research Foundation): Negotiating Resettlement.
After studying history and political science at the University of Hannover, Germany and the Universidad de Costa Rica, I worked as a research assistant at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg between 2006 and 2010. In 2011 I received a PhD from the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude). Between 2011 and 2015 I worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University, Germany. In 2016 I joined the Department of History (Modern History and Historical Migration Research) and the Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the Osnabrück University.
Areas of research
Contemporary history; historical migration research; global history of migration; migration and violence; crime, violence and public safety; violence in the Global South; history of urban violence; discourses about the social order, national identity and images of history; youth culture, youth gangs and youth violence.
Publications
Teaching
Memberships
Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF).
Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Netzwerk Displaced Persons-Forschung.
Costa Rica Center, Osnabrück University.
2018: Program Committee member/ Track Chair „Violence and (In-)security”, Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Barcelona, 23-26. Mai.
2014-2016: Editorial Board of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.
2014-2015: Board member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG)at Bielefeld University.
2006-2009: Editor of the GIGA Focus Lateinamerika.
Third Party Funded Projects and Research Grants
2020-2023 research project funded by the German Research Foundation (project page)
2020-2022 research project funded by Pro*Niedersachsen [with Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass]
2018 DAAD travel grant
2016 DAAD travel grant
2015 DAAD travel grant
2013 Bielefelder Nachwuchsfond travel grant
2012-2015 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, project (with W. Heitmeyer & B. Wilke)
2012 Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, conference grant (with Hannes Warnecke)
2012 DAAD travel grant
2011 GIGA, publication grant
2011 Hamburg University, publication grant
2010 DAAD, grant for field research and visiting scholarship, UCR, Costa Rica
2010 DAAD travel grant
2009 DAAD travel grant
Adisory and Peer Reviews
Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Cuadernos Intercambio, Democratization, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German Foundation for Peace Research, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
