Staff Profile
Professor Jens R Hentschke
Professor of Latin American History and Politics, Dr. phil. (History), Habilitation (German Higher Doctorate; Political Science), FRHistS - Deputy Head of School, Director for Postgraduate Research
- Email: j.r.hentschke@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8710
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 5442
- Personal Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff
- Address: University of Newcastle
SPLAS
Old Library Building
Claremont Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
U.K.
Background
Dpl., Dr. phil., Habilitation, FRHistS
Jens R Hentschke was born in Germany but has lived in the United Kingdom for almost 25 years. He holds both German and UK citizenship.
He has repeatedly attracted long-term funding for his research and worked, for longer periods, at universities and in archives and libraries in Latin America, the U.S., and Eastern and Western Europe.
From 1996 to 2004, he was an External Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Political Science at Heidelberg University where he obtained his Habilitation.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Member of University Senate
2. Deputy Head of School
3. Director for Postgraduate Research
4. Degree Programme Director for Single Honours Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (RT47)
5. Performance Development Reviewer (PDR)
Qualifications
1. Diploma (eq.5-year MA degree) in LA Studies/History ('Distinction')
2. Dr. phil. in Latin American History ('summa cum laude')
3. Habilitation (eq. Livre-Docência/Doctorat d'Etat) in Pol. Science
Memberships
1. Latin American Studies Association, U.S.A.
2. Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos
3. Society for Latin American Studies, U.K. (Vice-President 2013-15, President 2015-17, Past President and Chair of the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies in the UK 2017-19)
4. American Historical Association, U.S.A.
5. Conference on Latin American History, U.S.A.
6. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerika-Forschung, Germany
7. Deutscher Hochschulverband, Germany
Within the university/region:
-Member of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, previously of the 'Americas Research Group'.
Honours and Awards
Election to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society in 1998
Languages
German (native language), English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Basic reading skills in Russian (once high-level proficiency) and French (3rd language in school).
Research Interests
1. History and Politics of Latin America, especially Brazil and Southern Cone, from the late 18th to the 20th cc.
2. History of Ideas in Latin America and beyond, especially the impact of liberalism, positivism, Krausism, and (neo-) populism on state and nation-building.
3. History of Education in Latin America/social policy analysis
Apart from the books and articles listed on this webpage, Professor Hentschke has published more than 30 book reviews, several printed conference reports, some longer interviews with Brazilian broadsheet papers (in part reprinted on the internet), many journalistic articles, and research reports for DFG and AHRB/C.
Current Work
In late 2016, Jens R Hentschke published a big monograph on the normative ideas, especially liberalism, positivism, and Krausism, that shaped the transformation of Uruguay into the hemisphere's first welfare state democracy. Education was a key in the (re-) construction of the nation which began with the 'Reforma Vareliana' in the 1870s. By placing Uruguay into the broader context of what scholars have called South America's 'Corridor of Ideas' from Santiago de Chile through Buenos Aires and Montevideo to Porto Alegre, Hentschke shows how the country acted as a crossroads of intellectuals and a laboratory for the contestation, assimilation, and merger of global and autochthonous political and pedagogical philosophies (see review by Ana Frega in Hispanic American Historical Review, 99:1 (2019), 170-172: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7288248). After publishing a study on Spanish regeneracionista, Pan-Hispanista, and Krauso-Positivist Adolfo González Posada and his influence in the River Plate region, Hentschke is currently working on an article that explores the interactions between Uruguay's Reforma Vareliana and the coinciding Belgian education reform and Kulturkampf ('first guerre scolaire).
Future Research
Professor Hentschke's 2006 monograph 'Reconstructing the Brazilian Nation: Public Schooling in the Vargas Era' combines macro- and micro-history and explores how regional politics, especially Rio Grande do Sul's, influenced Brazil's social transformation after 1930. This study offered a solid basis for an extension of Hentschke's research into the thriving area of borderland studies. From 2008, starting with the monograph on Uruguay, he has taken the exploration of state- and nation-building further and focused on other supra- and sub-national frontier regions of Latin America. After completing the spin-offs from the last monograph, Hentschke would like to research the ideas that guided Rafael Nunez's Regeneración in Colombia and then possibly develop a comparative project that asks how frontiers acted as laboratories of competing ideas about economic modernisation, state formation, and nation-building; in what way military and civilian institutions assimilated and contested them, thereby producing alternative generations of leaders; and under what conditions frontier modernization gained national relevance.
Research Roles
1. Member of the University's 'Latin America Group'
2. Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Committee
3. Member of the Newcastle Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies bursary selection committee
4. Member of the School Research Committee
5. Field of Studies Leader for History, Politics, and Society
6. Chair of Postgraduate Progress Review Panels
7. Research Mentor
8. Personal Research Plan Reviewer
9. Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies REF Internal Quality Reviewer
Postgraduate Supervision
Co-supervisor of Steven Robinson, Ph.D in Politics ("The Europeanisation of Portuguese Foreign Policy") and Selina Patel, PhD in HIstory ("Kept Indoors? Gender, Honour, and Concubines in Bahia, Brazil, 1750-1831")
Jens R Hentschke is willing to supervise Masters and Ph.D. theses in HISTORY: late 18th to late 20th cc. political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America, especially Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, with foci on state formation and reconstruction, nation-building, regional politics, education reform, positivism(s), Krausism, and populism.
A good reading knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish is essential but can be acquired while at university.
Esteem Indicators
Professor Hentschke served on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Latin American Studies for 13 years, including as Vice-President (2013-15), President (2015-17) and Past President (2017-19), and as Chair of the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies in the UK (2017-19). He has been appointed to the international Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-American Institute Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin (2015-21), Europe's largest research centre in the field, and acts as External Examiner of the Masters by Research programme in Latin American Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies in London (2018-22). He was an Associate Fellow of the Institute of the Americas at UCL (2012-18), He also belonged, for a constitutional maximum of six years, to the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College, and served on several of its panels and as a Strategic Reviewer. He is also a member of the International Review Board of the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) and the international panel of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which reviewed the German government's 50 million Euro programme to strengthen Area Studies (2009-15). He has acted as a peer reviewer for the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, and the National University of Ireland Studentship Board; was an assessor of professorial candidates; and has been a reader of manuscripts for various publishers and journals in Europe and the Americas. Professor Hentschke is a member of the Editorial Council of the History programme of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Press and the journals Estudos Ibero-Americanos at PUCRS and Anos 90 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the International Editorial Council of Múltipla at UPIS in Brasília, the Scientific Committee of @rquivo Brasileiro de Educação at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, and the Advisory Council of Locus: Revista de Historia at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, all in Brazil, and he also serves on the Editorial Committee of Páginas de Educación at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. In addition, he forms part of the international research network 'Intellectual History and History of Concepts: Theoretical-Methodological Connections', coordinated by PUCRS. He has been invited to present papers at international conferences, expert symposia, and round tables in Brazil, Germany, and the U.S. and has been repeatedly interviewed on historical and political events in Latin America by leading Brazilian broadsheet papers, BBC History, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters. His publications are recommended for further reading in encyclopedia (Lexikon der Politik, Beck, Germany/Diccionario de Ciencia Política, Porruas Mexico), constitute required course literature at European and North American universities, and some have been translated into Portuguese and Spanish. Following an invitation by the Styrian Pedagogical Faculty and Association of Historians, he also conducted a two-day seminar for secondary school (head) teachers in Graz, Austria.
Funding
(only listing of large and research-related grants)
1. Volkswagen Foundation Area Studies Fellowship for research at St Antony's College, Oxford, 1993-5, all incl. ca. £ 30,000
2. Research Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, for field work in Germany, Britain, Brazil, and the U.S., 1996-8, ca. DM 100,000
3. Arts and Humanities Research Board Leave Award, 2001, cov. 4 months of annual salary
4. Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, 2011-12, cov. 9 months of annual salary
Undergraduate Teaching
LAS1010 Introduction to Latin America (block on the long-term impact of WWI and the Great Depression on Latin American economies, societies, and polities)
SPA1019 Introduction to the History, Culture, and Society of the Iberian Peninsula (Comparative History and Politics of Spain and Portugal in first semester)
LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil from Independence to the Mexican Revolution, 1789/1810-1917
LAS4001 Inter-American Relations since the Spanish-American War (1898)
SML4099 Dissertation in Spanish/Portuguese/Latin American Studies (History and Politics topics)
Postgraduate Teaching
Dr Hentschke teaches on the MA course in 'Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies' (MALAIS, under reconstruction):
LAS8003 'Intellectual and Political Thought in Brazil (and Spanish America) since Independence', currently merged with LAS8005 'Thinking Latin America'
LAS8005 'Research Methods in LA Interdisciplinary Studies' (Historical Method)
LAS8104 Dissertation
LAS8105 'Themed Reading'
GEO8202 'Country Cases'
SOC8100 'The Shaping of Latin America 1': Humanities
and made various contributions to other courses, especially SOC8101 The Shaping of Latin America I: Social and Political Themes', on the MALAIS degree.
In the past he taught seven cohorts of MA students at Heidelberg University as well as on Newcastle's MA in 'The Americas'. He also supervised a Portuguese Level E translation project on the MA in ML.
- Hentschke JR. Philosophical Polemics, School Reform, and Nation-Building in Uruguay, 1868-1915: Reforma Vareliana and Batllismo from a Transnational Perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016.
- Hentschke JR. Positivismo ao estilo gaúcho: A ditadura de Júlio de Castilhos e seu impacto sobre a construção do Estado e da nação no Brasil de Getúlio Vargas. Porto Alegre: Ed. da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016.
- Hentschke JR. Reconstructing the Brazilian Nation: Public Schooling in the Vargas Era. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.
- Hentschke JR, ed. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Hentschke JR. Positivism gaúcho-Style: Júlio de Castilhos Dictatorship and its Impact on State- and Nation-Building in Vargas's Brazil. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2004.
- Hentschke JR. Populismus: Bedeutungsebenen eines umstrittenen theoretischen Konzepts. A cross-national analysis. Münster: CeLA/University of Münster, 1998.
- Hentschke JR. Estado Novo. Genesis und Konsolidierung der brasilianischen Diktatur von 1937: Eine Fallstudie zu den sozioökonomischen und politischen Transformationen in Lateinamerika im Umfeld der Grossen Depression. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Saarbrücken, 1996.
- Hentschke JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista: Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Latin American Institute, 1990.
- Hentschke JR. German-Brazilians Between Conflicting Nation-State Interests: The Quest for Cultural Pluralism, 1871-1950s. In: João Paulo Avelãs Nunes, Luciano Aronne de Abreu, Miliandre Garcia de Souza, Tatyana de Amaral Maia, ed. A Independência e o Brasil Independente. vol. 2, Porto Alegre: EdiPUCRS, 2022, pp.199-238.
- Hentschke JR. José da Silva Lisboa and Brazil's Independence: Preface. In: Guilherme Celestino, The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2022, pp.vi-ix.
- Hentschke JR. Comtismo, Castilhismo, and Varguismo: Anatomy of a Brazilian Creed. Locus: Revista de História 2021, 27(2), 245-287.
- Hentschke JR. La Escuela Normal de Paraná en Argentina y sus discípulos: fusiones de liberalismo, krausismo y positivismo comteano en el templo creado por Sarmiento para civilizar a la nación, de 1870 a 1916. Hablemos de Historia: Cuestiones Teóricas y Metodológicas de la Historia 2020, (10), 38-65.
- Hentschke JR. Adolfo Posada’s Krauso-positivist project of social and political reform: its impact on Spain, Argentina and Uruguay. Historical Research 2020, 93(259), 105-130.
- Hentschke JR. 'Civilizar' Uruguay: la construcción cultural de la nación por los varelistas y los batllistas en el contexto de los desafíos globales. In: Sonia Scaffo, Ana Ribeiro, Dora Borges, ed. José Pedro Varela y la Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular: Una década fecunda 1868-1879. Montevideo: SAEP, 2018, pp.33-60.
- Hentschke J. More than "queens of the home": positivist modernisation, teacher training, and gender mobility in Uruguay, 1882-1915. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2013, 19(1), 1-30.
- Hentschke J. Artiguista, White, Cosmopolitan, and Educated: Constructions of Nationhood in Uruguayan Textbooks and Related Narratives, 1868-1915. Journal of Latin American Studies 2012, 44(4), 733-764.
- Hentschke JR. José Victorino Lastarria's Libertarian Krauso-Positivism and the Discourse on State- and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Chile. Intellectual History Review 2012, 22(2), 241-260.
- Hentschke JR. Argentina's Escuela Normal de Paraná and its disciples: mergers of liberalism, Krausism, and Comtean positivism in Sarmiento's temple for civilizing the nation, 1870 to 1916. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2011, 17(1), 1-31.
- Hentschke JR. Getúlio Vargas 1882-1954. In: Werz N, ed. Populisten, Revolutionäre, Staatsmänner: Politiker in Lateinamerika. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2009, pp.216-237.
- Hentschke JR. Politics without History?. In: Mohr, A., Nohlen, D, ed. Politikwissenschaft in Heidelberg: 50 Jahre Institut für Politische Wissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, pp.365-367.
- Hentschke JR. The Vargas Era Development and Institutional Model: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.1-29.
- Hentschke JR. Brasiliens Republikanisierung: Die Suche nach Alternativen in einem Prozess der "Amerikanisierung". In: Nitschack, H, ed. Brasilien im amerikanischen Kontext: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik: Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik. Frankfurt am Main: Teo Ferrer de Mesquita, 2005, pp.45-72.
- Hentschke JR. From "Order and Progress" to "National Security and Economic Development" - The Origins of Brazil's 1969 National Security State; Da "ordem e progresso" à "segurança nacional e desenvolvimento econômico" - A origem do estado de segurança nacional no Brasil de 1969. Justiça & História 2004, 4(7), 211-258.
- Hentschke JR. Lateinamerika zwischen Populismus und Neopopulismus : Die britische und amerikanische Theoriediskussion der späten 1990er Jahre und ihre Anwendung auf Brasilien, Chile und Peru. In: Nohlen, D; Sangmeister, H, ed. Macht, Markt, Meinungen : Demokratie, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Lateinamerika. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, pp.49-74.
- Hentschke JR. Interview: A Era Vargas e os seus legados a largo prazo. Entrevista com Jens R Hentschke. Impulso. Revista de Ciências Sociais e Humanas 2002, 13(31), 165-173.
- Hentschke JR. O surgimento do estado intervencionista no Brasil. In: Nascimento, A, ed. Brasil: Perspectivas internacionais. Piracicaba: Universidade Metodista, 2002, pp.273-307.
- Hentschke JR. O projeto positivista no Rio Grande do Sul. In: Brancato, SML; Menezes, AMM; Kothe, MG, ed. Simpósio Internacional. Estados Americanos: Relações continentais e intercontinentais - 500 anos de história. Porto Alegre: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2000, pp.159-169.
- Hentschke JR. Die Entstehung des interventionistischen Staates in Brasilien. Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 1999, 25(3-4), 239-267.
- Hentschke JR. Die Ursprünge der Ära Vargas: Rio Grande do Suls positivistische Entwicklungs- und Erziehungsdiktatur. In: Eschenburg, R; Heineberg, H; Pfister, U; Strosetzky, C, ed. Lateinamerika: Gesellschaft-Raum-Kooperation. Festschrift für Achim Schrader zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1999, pp.155-173.
- Hentschke JR. Langfristige Auswirkungen der Großen Depression. Brasilkunde/Estudos Brasileiros: Staden-Jahrbuch/Anuário Hanns Staden, Fundação Martius São Paulo 1996, 43/44, 15-30.
- Hentschke JR. Der Bürgerkrieg von 1893/95: Brennspiegel der Widersprüche bei der Republikanisierung Brasiliens. In: Schelsky, D; Zoller, R, ed. Brasilien: Die Unordnung des Fortschritts. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.83-126.
- Hentschke JR. Die Plantagensklaverei in Brasilien: Kritische Anmerkungen zum Versuch ihrer Einordnung in das Marx'sche Konzept der Produktionsweisen und Gesellschaftsformationen. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 21(1), 119-134.
- Hentschke JR. Zum Zusammenhang von Sklavenfrage und Staatsfrage im Brasilien des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Zoller, R, ed. Amerikaner wider Willen: Beiträge zur Sklaverei in Lateinamerika und ihren Folgen. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.236-265.
- Hentschke JR. Fortsetzung des Internationalismus oder isolationistische Wende? Die außen- und sicherheitspolitische Debatte in den Vereinigten Staaten nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges. Ein Rückblick auf die Präsidentschaftswahlen 1992. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(6), 994-1014.
- Hentschke JR. Plantation Slavery in Brazil and the Discussion about Modes of Production. Some Critical Comments. In: Binder, W, ed. Slavery in the Americas. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1993, pp.115-130.
- Hentschke JR. Die langfristigen Auswirkungen der Großen Depression auf das politische System Brasiliens. In: Reinhard, W; Waldmann, P, ed. Nord und Süd in Amerika: Gemeinsamkeiten, Gegensätze, europäischer Hintergrund. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1992, pp.851-861.
- Hentschke JR. Wie finden die USA aus der Rezession? Kommunitarier und Demokraten fordern neue Wirtschafts- und Sozialethik und Investitionen im Bildungsbereich. Berliner Debatte Initial: Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs 1992, 1(6), 75-78.
- Hentschke JR. Die Menschheit am ethischen Scheideweg: Gedanken zur Umweltphilosophie und den Prämissen praktischen Handelns José Lutzenbergers. Reflecciones 1991, 2(2), 72-77.
- Hentschke JR. Iluminismo y Gran Revolucion Francesa en la Independencia del Brasil. In: Thiemer-Sachse, U; Pade, W; Strauch, W, ed. América Latina en el pasado, presente y futuro. 1492-1992. Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano/University of Rostock, 1991.
- Hentschke JR. A luta abolicionista-republicana e a Grande Revolução Francesa - um estudo de história das idéias. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.13-25.
- Hentschke JR. Alternativas del desarrollo histórico en el Brasil en los años veinte. Contribución a la discusión. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.45-49.
- Hentschke JR. Der abolitionistisch-republikanische Kampf in Brasilien und die Große Französische Revolution: Eine ideengeschichtliche Studie. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1990, 18(2), 332-342.
- Hentschke JR. Die brasilianische Verfassung von 1891: Realität und Fiktion. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1990, 38(12), 1081-1087.
- Hentschke JR. La independencia de Brasil, 1817-22. In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de las revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.41-45.
- Hentschke JR. La revolución de 1888/89-94 en Brasil. In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.107-111.
- Hentschke JR. "Die Illusion der Yankees": Zu einem frühen Zeugnis konservativer Kapitalismuskritik. Lateinamerika 1989, 24(1), 137-144.
- Hentschke JR. Abolition der Sklaverei und Errichtung der Republik in Brasilien 1888-89 - Zäsur im brasilianischen bürgerlichen Revolutionszyklus. Lateinamerika 1988, 23(1), 9-29.
- Hentschke JR. Herausbildung und Entwicklung des brasilianischen Liberalismus im 19. Jahrhundert. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1988, 16(2), 327-338.
- Hentschke JR. Der "Grito de Ipiranga" - Eine Betrachtung der brasilianischen Unabhängigkeit. In: Kossok, M, ed. Leipziger Beiträge zur Revolutionsforschung. Karl-Marx-Universitat Leipzig: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Vergleichende Revolutionsforschung, 1986, pp.64-77.