The Network
Coordination
Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental history
- Energy history
- Disaster history
- Infrastructure history
- History of social movements
- History of health and the body
Damiana Salm
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Energy history
- Social history
- Environmental history
- Relationship between energy consumption, the built environment/indoor climate and social inequalities
- Environmental justice and social justice
Dr. Anna-Katharina Wöbse
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental history of the 20th century
- History of environmental diplomacy
- Conservation humanities
- Human-animal-studies
- Visual history and environmental photography
Members
Dr. Ana Clara Alves de Oliveira
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental sciences and visual culture
- Cultures of extractivism
- Postcolonial theory and ecology
- Gender and work in historical photographs
- Post-apocalyptic studies and audiovisual media
Dr. Martin Bemmann
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental, economic, global and intellectual history
- Relationships between economics and ecology in industrial societies
- European history in the 19th and 20th centuries in its global context
- History of international organisations
- History of globalisation and integration processes in Europe
Tuba Bozkurt
Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft
Romanisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Depictions of violence and nature in 20th-century French-language literature
- Ecocriticism
- Literary animal studies
- Intertextuality and intermediality
Amaury Coulomb
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental history
- Forest history
- Contemporary history of Germany
Dr. Roderich von Detten
Professur für Forstökonomie und Forstplanung
Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen
Research interests:
- Sustainability and strategic management
- History of forestry ideas
- Forestry terminology
- Organisational research
- Strategic management and planning in the environmental sector against a backdrop of uncertainty, complexity and lack of knowledge
- Communication and normative management
Annalena Erhardt
Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft
Research interests:
- Media culture studies research on the Anthropocene and biodiversity
- Intermedia and interdisciplinary photobook research
- Visual and environmental history of species extinction
- Transmedia ecocriticism, extinction studies, multispecies ethnography
Dr. Mariachiara Franceschini
Abteilung Klassische Archäologie
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften
Research interests:
- Water and rivers in ancient times
- Landscape archaeology and urban planning
- Sacred architecture
Rebecca Heinrich
Neuere deutsche Literatur
Deutsches Seminar
Research interests:
- Literatures, cultures and poetics of the vegetable world
- Poetry and ecology (especially Romanticism, contemporary)
- Gender, Masculinity and Intersectionality Studies
- Heroic narratives, heroisation and heroism
Dr. Philipp Höfele
Young Academy for Sustainability Research
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Research interests:
- Practical philosophy and ethics
- Environmental and natural philosophy
- Philosophy of technology
- Philosophical aesthetics
- History of philosophy from the 18th to the 21st century (especially the Anthropocene discourse)
Matthias Kaub
Lehrstuhl Neutestamentliche Literatur und Exegese
Theologische Fakultät
Research interests:
- Theology and community development in early Christianity in the pre-Constantinian period
- Ancient discourses on sustainability
Lena Krause
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Environmental history
- History of raw materials and fabrics
- Colonial history and global history
- Economic and business history
Dr. Nina Kulawik
Innovationscampus Nachhaltigkeit
Funding priorities:
- Transdisciplinary sustainability science
- Areas of innovation: climate protection, resource conservation, well-being
Klara Machata
Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
Englisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Postcolonial ecocriticism
- Climate fiction
- Critical plant studies
- Spatial literary studies
Apl. Prof. Dr. Astrid Möller
Außerplanmäßige Professur für Alte Geschichte
Seminar für Alte Geschichte
Research interests:
- Economy and ecology of ancient Greece
- Ancient agriculture (especially horticulture)
Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner
Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft
Research interests:
- American studies
- Environmental humanities
- Ecocriticism
- Cognitive narratology
- Film and media studies
Dr. Dörte Peters
Innovationscampus Nachhaltigkeit
Funding priorities:
- Transdisciplinary sustainability science
- Areas of innovation: climate protection, resource conservation, well-being
Vandana Rani
Deutsches Seminar
Research interests:
- Contemporary youth literature from German- and Hindi-speaking countries
- Romantic literature
- Ecocriticism
- Anthropocene
- Translation studies
Kelly J. A. Schmidt
Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Mediävistik
Englisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Scottish Literature and Cultural Studies
- Ecocriticism (especially nature prose and climate fiction)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Sulimma
Lehrstuhl für Nordamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Englisches Seminar
Research interests:
- Popular Culture
- Film and media studies
- (Literary and Cultural) Urban studies
- (Green) Gentrification
- Climate fiction
- Energy humanities
Dr. Marius Tarita
Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Seminar
Research interests:
- History of socialist countries in Europe after 1945
- History of institutions
- Environmental history
- Cooperation between socialist countries
- Polish-romanian relations in the interwar period
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dominik Zink
Juniorprofessur für interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft
Deutsches Seminar
Research interests:
- Contemporary intersectional literature of origin
- Interculturality and ecology
- Romanticism and the reception of romanticism
- Postcolonial research on similarity
Project Team Zertifikat Nachhaltigkeit
Project Coordination Christoph Pfisterer and Elena Janke
Zentrum für Schlüsselqualifikationen
Selected courses and formats:
- Interdisciplinary lecture series on sustainability
- Events on cross-cutting issues
- Student project workshops