Agustina Carrizo de Reimann, PhD

Agustina Carrizo de Reimann is currently an Associate Researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics at the Universität Leipzig and the Lateinamerika-Institut at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), specializing in Latin American Political and Cultural History (19-20th century). She has taught B.A. and M.A. courses at the History and the Global and European Studies Institutes at the Universität Leipzig and the binational M.A. “Conflict, Memory and Peace” at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingoldstadt. In 2017, she completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Michael Riekenberg and Claudio Lomnitz on the meanings of political violence during the “Anarchy of the 1820s” in Mexico and Argentina. The internationally renowned publishing house Iberoamericana Vervuert published her dissertation in 2019 under the title Una historia densa de la anarquía postindependiente. She has initiated and participated in international exchanges with renowned scholars and junior researchers. As a result of one of these collaborations, she edited 2020 the bilingual publication Making Modern Police in Latin America. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Polizeien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.

For her current book project, she explores the question of the role of police cultures concerning fin-de-siècle state modernization in Argentina and Mexico. She takes a praxeological approach to determine features and interconnections between diverse police writing practices —everyday paperwork, magazines, and memoirs— that developed during Orden Conservador (1880-1916) and the Porfiriato (1876-1911). The comparative analysis shows that, despite their precarious situation, the Gendarmeria Municipal of Mexico City and the Policía de la Capital of Buenos Aires sought to establish their authority and became controversial intermediaries between capitals’ communities and the “reading states.” With its interdisciplinary framework, the study tackles the indeterminacy of modern police as both society members and state agents while ultimately challenging common assumptions about Latin America’s unfulfilled modernity. Besides the history of conflict and violence and Latin America’s divergent integration under the global condition, her research and teaching interests include methodological aspects of interdisciplinary work.