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Director of Research, CALAS Laboratorio 3 El antropoceno como crisis múltiple: Perspectivas desde América Latina 2023-2024.
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Speaker / Sprecher Department of Cultural Studies (2022-2024)
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Steering Committee CALAS (since 2019)
- Editorial Board American Studies Journal, USA (since 2016)
- Executive Director of the Association of Inter-American Studies IAS (2009-2023)
- Founder and Board Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies CIAS, Bielefeld University (in cooperation with Olaf Kaltmeier ) (since Feb. 2012)
- Founder and General Editor of the forum for inter-american research (e-journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, IAS) fiar (since 2007)
- Chair of the BMBF-Project Entangled Americas (2013-2019)
- Representative of the international committee of the American Studies Association ASA (2015-2018)
- Head of the academic Staff and Student Mobility Exchange Program ISAP (here: Bielefeld University-Universidad de Guadalajara), (since 2013)
- Appointment as Profesor Huesped für North American Studies y Estudios Interamericanos at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexiko (Januar 2010)
- Fulbright-Ombudsman for Bielefeld University, (since May 2007)
- Director of the International Postgraduate Forum at Bielefeld University (2007-2013)