I am a global historian of technology, economy, and the environment with a particular focus on globalization processes, the intersection of ecology and economy, and the nineteenth and twentieth century. My work bridges history and environmental humanities. My research interests range from asphalted roads as infrastructures of the Anthropocene to the international trade in hazardous waste, and from wetlands as non-binary spaces of inquiry to verticality as an enviro-historical concept. In my teaching, I like to use walking as a methodology. My research has received numerous prizes and awards, such as the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Hagley Prize awarded by the Business History Conference (BHC) and the Hagley Museum and Library. My work has been supported through fellowships, among them from the Smithsonian Institution, the Science History Institute, the German Historical Institute, or the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Pennsylvania.

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I am speaker of the International Doctoral Program Um(Welt)Denken. Rethinking Environment. The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society, hosted by Augsburg 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 and LMU Munich and funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.? homepage IDK - Rethinking Environment

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Before joining the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg in 2023, I held positions at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Munich (LMU), the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Freiburg, and the Freie Universit?t Berlin. Between 2016 and 2023, I worked as PI and Project Director of the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.? homepage RCC LMU - Hazardous Travels

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Selected Publications

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Monographs

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• Wiring the world. The social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks. Columbia Studies in International and Global History, Columbia 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Press, 2016. link to publisher
• The Toxic Ship. The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade, Weyerhaeuser Series in Environmental History, 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Washington Press, 2023. link to publisher

Editorships

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Together with May-Brith Ohman Nielsen. Toxic timescapes. Examining toxicity across time and space. Ohio 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Press, 2022. Competitively selected as one of twenty books to be made open access through the platform Knowledge Unlatched and their Focus Collection 2023: Climate Change.? link to publisher

Articles and Book Chapters

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• “Toxicity,” in The Philosopher 110, 1 (2022): 57-61. article
• “Toxic commons. Global inequality in the age of the Anthropocene,” Environmental History (July 2021): 38-44. article
• “Hidden Externalities: The Globalization of Hazardous Waste,” Business History Review 93, 1 (2019): 51-74. awarded with the Henrietta Larson Prize for best publication. article
• Together with David Stradling, “Water as the Ultimate Sink: Linking Fresh and Saltwater History,” International Review of Environmental History 5, 1 (2019): 23-41.? article
• “Rettet die Erde vor den ?konomen? Lawrence Summers’ Memo und der Kampf um die Deutungshoheit über den internationalen Giftmüllhandel,“ Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 56 (2017), 353-373. article
• “A Wave of Interest and Action for Planet Earth? How UNEP Spoke for the Environment from Stockholm to Rio,” Heidi Tworek et al. (Eds.), International Organizations and the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】ia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, (Routledge Studies in Modern History), Routledge 2018, 204-231. link to publisher

Academic Positions

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Heisenberg-Professor for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities
威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????? since February 2023

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Professor for Contemporary History (part-time replacement)??????????????????????????? ?? ??April-Sept 2022
Ruprecht-Karls 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Heidelberg

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Project Director & Principal Investigator ??????????????????????????????????? ??????????? ??Sept 2016 - January 2023
Ludwig Maximilian 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group
“Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy”

Guest Professor
威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Vienna, Department of Science and Technology Studies????????????????????? ????????? Spring 2021

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Lecturer for North American History??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ?2013-2016
Albert Ludwig 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Freiburg, Dept. of History

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Lecturer for North American History??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????? ?????????????? 2011-2013
Freie Universit?t Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies

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