Research

Dr. des Lukas Böckmann

Image of person with microphone

Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute;
Research Associate at the Academy Project

boeckmann@dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-702

Working at the Dubnow Institute as Research Associate. Since 2022 he is also a Research Associate at the Academy Project »European Traditions – Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures.« Since 2015 PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute.

Studied Ibero-American History, Romance Language and Literature and Philosophy at the universities of Cologne, Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa, Mexico) and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Completed his diploma degree at the university of Cologne in 2013. Subject of the diploma thesis: »Wiederkehr des Immergleichen? Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der argentinischen Linken um die ›cuestión judía‹ zwischen 1958 und 1974.« 2023 PhD at the Leipzig University. Subject of PhD thesis: »"A Paradise on Earth." Catholic Tradition and Political Theology among the Argentine Guerillas of the 1960s.« Since November 2013 he works as academic assistant at the Academy Project »European Traditions – Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures«.

Research Interests

  • Intellectual history of Latin American labour movement and political left

Reviews

Zwischen Neuer Linker und Establishment. Debatten um jüdische Zugehörigkeit im revolutionären Argentinien (review of Beatrice D. Gurwitz, Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt. Between the New World and the Thirld World, Boston, Mass./Leiden 2016), in: Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur. Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts 1 (2017), 58 f.

David Kunzle, Chesucristo. Die Fusion von Che Guevara und Jesus Christus in Bildern und Schriften, Berlin 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, 20 September 2016.