{"id":2868,"date":"2024-11-19T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:55:12","slug":"dr-javier-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/dr-javier-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Javier Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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University of Basel
European empires and socio-ecological transformations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2021 – September 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Javier Francisco is a historian for European imperial history in the Early Modern Atlantic World, focusing on socio-political and economic-ecological entanglements. Among his research interests are: theory building on imperial longevity, the ecological impact of land use transformations (particularly, plantation and forests), transcultural practices of agriculture and hunting, processes of transfer of knowledge, missionary networks, Indigenous and local agency, as well as conflicts and social transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, he advocates inter-disciplinary cooperation including joint projects with political scientists, ecologists, mathematicians as well as the GiZ and Fraunhofer Institute. His public outreach activities include a joint YAS publication of a graphic novel on the climate crises and current mass extinction, interviews at Deutschlandfunk and Arte as well as pulic lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His academic career stages include: the University of T\u00fcbingen (bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree) and Queensland University in Brisbane (study abroad); the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (PhD) including Columbia University (New York) and Colegio de M\u00e9xico (Mexico City) as visiting scholar; the Max-Weber Kolleg in Erfurt, the University of Freiburg and Harvard University (Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs). He has conducted archival work in the Americas and Europe i.a. Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Paris, Sevilla, Den Haag and Vatican City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his spare time, he likes sports (volleyball, swimming, badminton), jazz music, writing short stories, reading & watching fantasy & science-fiction (Star Trek, Asimov, Dune), cares for animals and nature and enjoys social gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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