Felix A. Jimenez Botta
Felix A. Jiménez Botta is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University Korea, and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2018. He is the author of Latin America Solidarity and the Politics of Human Rights in West Germany, 1973–1990 (2025). The manuscript examines the contradictory uses of human rights in the advocacy campaigns towards in Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador in the Federal Republic of Germany. He has also published scholarly articles on the history of migration, Holocaust memory in postwar Germany, and British solidarity movements in the 1980s. He is currently conducting research for a global intellectual history of the concept of cosmopolitanism.
George Mason University Korea
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I wish to propose a meet the author panel for my recently published book (CUP, 2025). The book is an addition to several fields: human rights, German history, and global history. In this meet the author presentation I would explain how this book helps to globalize German history and how it challenges the historiography of human rights by centering non-European actors and non-European concerns in the evolution of human rights politics in a European country such as Germany.