Prof. Dr. Barbara Potthast

Institute of Iberian and Latin-American History, Universität zu Köln

Barbara Potthast is professor at the University of Cologne and the director of the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History. She also is also president of the Centro Latinoamericano de Colonia (CLAC) and of the Global South Studies Center of Cologne (GSSC). Her research interests are the history of gender and family as well as processes of collective identity formation. Her main research areas are Paraguay and Argentina, as well as the Atlantic Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua.