Alumni ProEnviron Doctoral Students

Surname, First NameDissertationFinished in
Achermann, Dania“Von der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug zum Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre: Wandel und Kontinuitäten institutioneller Identitäten”2014
Aevermann, Tim“Monetary Assessment of Urban Ecosystem Services: The Case of Schlosspark Nymphenburg, Munich. Analysis from an Ecological– Economical Perspective”2014
Blanc, Julia“The Role of the Catholic Church in European Environmental Politics”2016
Blocher, Ewald„Der Wasserbau-Staat. Die Transformation des Nils und das moderne Ägypten, 1882–1971“2014
Brandl, Barbara“The Commodification of Seed and the Resistance of the Primary Sector: A Comparative Study of the United States and Germany”2016
Braun, Veit“Appropriating Life: Property in the Age of Bioeconomics”2019
Brill, Saskia“Negotiating Air: Cultural Perceptions of Greenhouse Gases”2019
Buchczyk, Sabine“Wilderness, All-Inclusive: The Development of Wilderness–EcoLodging in Alaska”2017
Degife, Azeb“The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia, Gambella Region”2020
De Majo, Claudio“Woodland Civilization: An Environmental History of the Sila Plateau from Essentiality to Neglect”2021
Deol, Ruhi“Building an Islandscape: Discourse, Livelihoods, and Development in the Andaman Islands, India”2021
De Smalen, Eveline“The Cultural Imagination of the Rhine-Meuse Delta in the Netherlands and the Humber Estuary in England”2019
Dumas, Daniel“’We Have to Get Really Uncomfortable to Get Comfortable’: Critically Assessing Narratives of Colonialism and Reconciliation in Representations of Indigenous Peoples and Geographies in Canada”2025
Duono, Moussa“Living in the Lassa Belt: Biomedical Research, Extractive Exchanges, and the Weight of Viral Atmospheres in Liberia”2026
Elek Tálas, Anikó“A Poetics of Displacement: Cosmological Mindscapes and Observers in J.C.’s Poetry”2019
Esselborn, Stefan“Übersetzer Afrikas: Das Internationale Afrikainstitut (IIALC/IAI) und die Praxis afrikanistischer Expertise, 1926–1976“2016
Fayiah, John Suleemulo“Disease Ecologies, Extractive Enclaves, and the Transformation of Health Infrastructure in Liberia”2026
Feichtner, Maximilian“Hazards in the Amazon: An Environmental History of Oil Production in Ecuador”2021
Fonck, Martín“’Exploring the Underground’: Following Evidence Practices and Traces of Geothermal Energy Futures in Chilean Andes”2021
Gora, L. Sasha“Culinary Land Claims: The Representation of Indigenous Foodways in Canada”2020
Hanwahr, Nils C.“Environmental Research Infrastructures in the Command and Control Anthropocene”2018
Hofmann, Rebecca“Situating Climate Change in Chuuk: Navigating ‘Belonging’ Through Environmental and Social Transformations in Micronesia”2015
Hutterer, Dorothea“The Local Environmental Aspects of Bavarian Territories from Around 1500 to 1800”2025
Ibeh, Lawrence“Disaggregated Assessment of the Risk of Resource-use Conflicts and Management: The Case of Oil Extractive Coastal Territories of Nigeria”2011
Jünger, Andreas“Ideas, Politics, and Materialities: A Socio-Environmental History of Organic Farming in Andalusia”2025
Kerwillain, Shadrach“Forest in the Making: History, Power, and Socio-Ecological Change in Liberia"2026
Kistler, Sebastian“How Much Equality is Fair?: Social-Ethical Studies on Sustainable and Fair Climate Protection”2016
Kleemann, Katrin“A Mist Connection: The Icelandic Laki Fissure Eruption of 1783”2020
Kneitz, Agnes“Eco-Novels: The Concept of Environmental Justice Thought Nineteenth Century Social Novels”2013
Lagier, Claire“Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology Within and Beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)”2019
Lakhani, Vikas“Dynamic Climates of Memory: Environmental Learning, Risk Perception, Remembering and Forgetting Disasters”2015
Liebig, Oliver David“The Mero Ikojts and the Wind: Energy Assemblages and Indigeneity in Mexico”2019
Liepold, Annka“Corn: An Environmental History”2017
Limmer-Kneitz, Agnes“Eco-Novels: The Concept of Environmental Justice Through Nineteenth Century Social Novels”2013
López-Maldonado, Yolanda“Groundwater Maya Project”2018
Luciano, Eugenio“The Anthropocene Hypothesis: Birth and Epistemology”2022
Märkl, Simon“Big Science Fiction: Nuclear Fusion and Popular Culture in the United States”2019
Mauch, Felix„Erinnerungsfluten: Das Sturmhochwasser von 1962 im Gedächtnis der Stadt Hamburg“2014
Mehnert, Antonia“Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature”2014
Meiske, Martin“The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-Scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the Anthropocene (1850–1950)”2019
Möller, Angelika“Grüne Stadt New York: Freizeit und Freiraum in der Metropole“2014
Monajati, Zarrin“The Theoretical and Aesthetical Representations of Islamic Environmental Ethics (With a Focus on Iranian Academicians and Cinematography)”2017
Ng, Huiying“Infra-Structural Remediations: Agroecological Futures as Prospective Ethnographies of Hope”2020
Oomen, Jaroen“Working in the Eye of the Storm: A Sociology of Climate Engineering “2019
Ortheil, Lotta“Beyond Lettuce: Urban Agroforestry, Food Practices, and SocioEcological Justice in Brazil and Europe”2026
Palmblad, Jonatan“Prometheus Rebound: Lewis Mumford, the Ecological Crisis, and the Return to Reality”2023
Del Pilar Peralta Ardila, Maria“Life Trajectories of Women in Defense and Care of the Environment, Colombia, 1990–2019”2026
Quagliati, Noemi“Beyond the Whiteness: Environmental Concerns in the Photo-Cine Aesthetics of Carrara Marble Quarries”2021
Reitz, Talitta“How Portland Became a Bicycle-Friendly City”2026
Roxo, Valentina“The Invention of Urban Farming—Crisis Management or Sustainable Future? An Examination of Urban Farming Approaches to Detroit’s Post-Industrial Problems”2020
Schlegel, Lena“The Societally Responses to Climate Change with a Focus on Wildfires in Southeast Australia”2025
Šimková, Pavla “Spectacle: A History of Boston’s Urban Islands”2019
Sirakova, Sevgi Mutlu“Connected Food: More-than-Human Geographies of Fermentation”2026
Spenger, Martin“Green Beat: An Environmental Biography of Gary Snyder”2017
Tabios Hillebrecht, Anna Leah“Intergenerational Equity in the Aftermath of a Nuclear Disaster” 2016
Stuck, Jonas“A Hazardous Connection: The Waste Trade Between East and West Germany, 1973–1990”2023
Torres Ruiz, Elena“The Invention of Urban Farming: Crisis Management or Sustainable Future? An Examination of Urban Farming Approaches to Detroit’s Post-Industrial Problems”2020
Urquiza, Anahí“The Chilean Model of Water Management in the Context of Water Stress: Sociocultural Conditions and Vulnerability to Climate Change”2014
Vinogradov, Andrei“Movements Against Industrial Pollution of the Environment in the Late Russian Empire (1870–1917)”2018
Will, Fabienne“Evidence Practices at the Interstice of Science, Humanities, and the Public: The Anthropocene Debate”2020
Zelinger, Amir“Burghers and Pets: A Beastly History of Imperial Germany”2016
Zimmer, Fabian“Hydroelectric Projections: The Culture of Water Power in 1950s European Industrial Films”2020
Zumbado, Guivion“National Parks of Costa Rica: An Environmental History”2015