Profile

Profile ^.  Research^.  Publications ^.  Teaching ^.  lectures 

Historian and political scientist

Research assistant at the Department of History (Modern History and Historical Migration Research)

Member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS)

Member of the Research Center Costa Rica Center

Current research project (DFG):  Negotiating Resettlement.

After studying history and political science at the University of Hanover and the Universidad de Costa Rica, Sebastian Huhn initially worked from 2006 to 2010 as a research assistant in the DFG-funded research project "Public Spheres and Violence in Central America" led by Prof. Dr. Anika Oettler at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. He received his doctorate (summa cum laude) from the University of Hamburg in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, Sebastian Huhn worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG). At the IKG, he played a key role in the BMZ-funded research and cooperation project "Violence Research and Development", which he designed and applied for together with Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer and Boris Wilke. Sebastian Huhn has been a research assistant at the Department of History (Modern History and Historical Migration Research) at Osnabrück University since 2016.

Main research areas

Contemporary history; historical migration research; migration and violence; crime, violence and public security; violence in the Global South; history of urban violence; discourses on social regulation, national identity and historical images; youth culture, youth gangs and youth violence.

Functions and memberships

German Latin American Studies Association (ADLAF).

Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Displaced Persons Research Network.

Costa Rica Center, Osnabrück University.

2018: Program Committee member/ Trach Chair "Violence and (In-)security", Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Barcelona, May 23-26.

2014-2016: Editorial board member of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

2014-2015: Member of the Board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University.

2006-2009: Responsible editor of the GIGA Focus Latin America.

Third-party funds & scholarships

2020-2023 DFG research project (own position)

2020-2022 Pro*Niedersachsen [with Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass] Research project

2018 DAAD travel grant

2016 DAAD travel grant

2015 DAAD travel grant

2013 Bielefeld Young Talent Fund research travel grant

2012-2015 BMZ, third-party funding for research project (with Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer & Boris Wilke)

2012 Fritz Thyssen Foundation, conference funding (with Hannes Warnecke)

2012 DAAD travel grant

2011 GIGA, publication grant

2011 University of Hamburg, publication grant

2010 DAAD, short-term scholarship for field research and guest researcher stay, UCR, Costa Rica

2010 DAAD travel grant

2009 DAAD travel grant

Expert and peer review activities

Bertelsmann Transformation Index, German 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.