Michael Zeuske

Biography

Michael Zeuske is a Rostock historian and professor of Latin and Caribbean history. He is a specialist in the history of Latin America, the history of the Atlantic, the history of slaves and slave traders as well as the history of Cuba , Venezuela and the Caribbean . He was Professor for Comparative History / Ibero-America at the University of Leipzig. In 1993, he was appointed to a professorship for Iberian and Latin American history at the University of Cologne. Although Zeuske's scientific work on the slave history of Latin America is indisputable, for example, in the assessment of modern Cuba, Peter B. Schumann, a journalist and Latin American expert, has shortcomings in respect of the inner-Cuban opposition , which he mentions only in his books Zeuske also clarified that the Cuban Revolutionary regime had from the outset on violent repression of the opposition forces.

Research Interest

Michael Zeuske research interests lie in Slavery and human trafficking, Global history of slavery, Transnational as well as comparative research and history of the relations of Africa and Europe to the Iberian world.