Former Visiting Scholars
as of October 2026
| Surname, First Name | Project | Residency Period |
|---|---|---|
| Abbas, Mai | Agroecology for Health and Wellbeing | 2024 |
| Acker, Antoine | AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil-Based Futures in the Development Century (1920–1975) | 2020 |
| Agosta, Alessando | Evolving Agriculture: For a History of the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Agricultural Structures in Puglia and Basilicata in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century | 2024 |
| Andrioli, Antonio Inácio | Pesticide use and the ideological legitimization of genetically modified agro-food production in Brazil | 2019–2020 |
| Arias, Santa | Nature at the Spanish Frontier: Abbad y Lasierra’s Rethinking of San Juan de Puerto Rico’s Development (1765–88) | 2015 |
| Arias-Maldonado, Manuel | Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature | 2011 |
| Ashcroft, Catherine | Negotiated Approaches to Managing Conflict | 2014 |
| Babcock, Joshua | Between Two Singapores: Imagined Geographies and Unsettling Settler Romances | 2026 |
| Ballard, Susan | Planetary Thinking in Contemporary Art Writing | 2019 |
| Bañuelos, Daniela | Towards the Recognition of the Ecological and Relational Dimensions of the Human Condition in the Foundation of the Right to Private Property | 2024 |
| Bao, Weihong | Background Matters: Set Design and The Art of Environment | 2023 |
| Barber, Daniel | Emergency Exit: Architecture and the end of Fossil Fuels | 2016–2017 |
| Bartenstein, Kristin | Legal Frameworks Concerning Cooperative Protection of the Arctic | 2014 |
| Bell, Douglas | Occupying Nature: Germans, Americans, and the Environment, 1945–1949 | 2015–2016 |
| Benson, Etienne | A History of “the Environment“ | 2014 |
| Berbel, Rosa | Cosmopolitical Figurations in 21st-Century Latin American Ecopoems | 2024 |
| Berros, María Valeria | Rights of Nature in Latin America: Ethics and Juridical Field in Dialogue | 2016 |
| Bestilleiro Lettini, Santiago | The Greater Pampas: Politics, Ecology, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Río de la Plata Grasslands (1770–1920) | 2025 |
| Bezan, Sarah | Extinction Imaginaries: Species Loss and Revival in a Biotechnological Age | 2020 |
| Blevins, Cameron | The Postal West: A New Spatial History | 2017–2018 |
| Boscolo, Claudia | The Desert-Forest in Literary Imaginary: From Sacred Threshold to Hyperobject | 2026 |
| Boyacıoğlu, Can | Re-Emerging Idea of Nature: In Between Environmental Humanities and Architectural Theory | 2022–2023 |
| Bradley, Hannah | Rauschen des Waldes: The Prosody of the Forest in Twenty-First Century German-Language Poetry | 2026 |
| Brandišauskas, Donatas | Contested Land Use and Subsistence in the Olekma River Basin | 2018 |
| Burger, Tim | Cultivating ‘Lost’ Land: Livelihood and Depopulation in an Azorean Place | 2023 |
| Celis, Alberto | Navigating Little Ice Age Droughts in the Spanish Empire (16th– 18th Centuries): Political Responses and Environmental Consequences in Wetlands | 2024 |
| Ceschia, Marika | From Grammar to Sovereignty: The Environmental Praxis of Black Women’s Literature | 2026 |
| Chamel, Jean | Giving Rights to Mother Earth. Rituals, Indigeneity and Ecospiritualities | 2021 |
| Chopra, Ruma | Between God and Darwin: Early Modern Transitions in the Understanding of Climate | 2019 |
| Cole, Tomas | Making Peace with Pests: From Conflict to Conviviality with Mosquitoes across Southeast Asia | 2023–2025 |
| Conterio, Johanna | Controlling Ecologies, Controlling People: Urban Planning, Social Engineering, and the Politics of Green Space in the Soviet Union, 1931–1941 | 2022 |
| Cordini, Nicolás Santiago | Ecocide and Transboundary Environmental Crimes: Different Possibilities for Inter- and Transnational Jurisdiction | 2024 |
| Corti, Gonzalo Luis | History and Evolution of the Legal Subjectivation of the Nonhuman Animal in the Argentinian Criminal Law | 2024 |
| Cox, Peter | Developing Cross-Disciplinary Research into Bicycling and the Environment | 2014–2015 |
| Criado, Tomás | An Inquiry Into Boomer Landscapes | 2023 |
| Curto, Gemma | In the Shadow of the Present: Bavarian Tourism and Grounded Modernity, 1800–1950 | 2014 |
| Dahl, Thomas | Nietzsche’s Places—To Love the Earth | 2025 |
| Daw, Sarah | Imagining the (Eco)Future: Ecotopian Thought in an Age of Climate Breakdown | 2021 |
| Day, Timothy Ryan | The Leavening Word: Shakespear, Microbes, and Re-Imagining the Artificial | 2026 |
| Deer, Jemma | Traces of Humanity: Extinctions in the Anthropocene | 2020 |
| De Groof, Matthias | Ecologies of Indigenous Filmmaking in the Democratic Republic of Congo | 2025–2026 |
| Denning, Andrew | A Cultural and Environmental History of Skiing in the Alps | 2009–2010 |
| De Pretto, Sebastian | Transnationale Stauwerke im Alpenraum, 1870–1974 | 2021 |
| Dhaliwal, Supriya Kaur | Writing with Water: Reservoirs, Ruptures, and the Poetics of Environmental Entanglement | 2026 |
| Diener, Leander | Bodies in Environments: The History of Knowledge of a Precarious Relationship | 2024 |
| Dostalík, Jan | Developing Research-Oriented Degree Programs at the Faculty of Social Studies | 2018 |
| Droz, Laÿna | Can and Should We Go Beyond Anthropocentrism? | 2022 |
| Eglinger, Hanna | Magic, Ecstatic, Nomadic: Arctic Primitivism in Scandinavia Around 1900 | 2016 |
| Estruth, Jeannette | Think Different: Silicon Valley, Activism, and the Making of Modern American Politics | 2026 |
| Evans, Reed | Women Entrepreneurs in Sustainability | 2014–2015 |
| Fagundez, Gabrielle Tabares | Human Rights, Climate Emergency, and Health: The Framework of Socioenvironmental Injustice that Perpetuates Inequality and the Fight Against Socioenvironmental Rights Violations | 2025 |
| Feditchkina Tracy, Elena | Resilient Environmental Governance: Leadership, Values, and Institutions | 2018 |
| Figueiredo, Ricardo | Technology as Redemption of Global Climate and Its SocialEnvironmental Problems | 2018–2019 |
| Fiske, Amelia | 2017–2018 | |
| Flamm, Patrick | “Environmental Leadership” and Power in Antarctic Geopolitics | 2022 |
| Forêt, Philippe | How Geographers Stabilized Climate in Asia: An Internal Exploration of Theories and Processes in Climate Research | 2023 |
| Förster, Kim | (Substitute Professor, Summer Semester 2025) | 2025 |
| Fu, Mary Xinyue | Reimagining the Anthropos: Sympoiesis and Multispecies Becoming-with in the Chthulucene Bildungsroman | 2026 |
| Fung, Zali | Contests Over Water and the Yuam River Water Diversion Project: Participation, Exclusion, and Resistance | 2022 |
| Gallini, Stefania | Dona Juana's Ancestors: A History of Waste and Bogotá (Colombia), Late 19th to Late 20th Century | 2011 |
| Gißibl, Bernhard | The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa | 2013; 2015 |
| Graham, Nicole | Exploring the Relationship between Law and Anthropogenic Landscape Change: The Cases of CSG Mining and Water Allocation | 2015 |
| Gray, Richard | Modern German Literature; Intellectual History; Economics; Environmentalism; Narrative | 2013 |
| Grieger, Andreas | Environmental Diplomacy in US-German Relations | 2014 |
| Grover, Samantha | Pete Who? Collaborative Reimagining of Peatland Restoration in the Global South | 2018–2020 |
| Han, Zhaoqing | The Digitalization and Study of Huang yu quan lan tu | 2016 |
| Heisse, Christiane | The Political Economy of Natural Capital Accounting Between Policy, Finance, and Economics Imperialism | 2022– 2023; 2025 |
| Heroor, Apoorva | Becoming a Nation and a People: B. R. Ambedkar on the Postcolonial State Formation in India | 2024 |
| Hewson, Michael | Ceding Control: River Running Rights | 2022–2023 |
| Hoopes, Annalise | Cultivating Empathy in Schools: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Empathy Pedagogy in the US, Italy, Germany, and Ecuador | 2025 |
| Huggan, Graham | Australian Weather-Worlds | 2025 |
| Hui, Alexandra | Listening to Nature: Standardized Soundscapes and Imagined Ecologies, 1900–2000 | 2018 |
| Iovino, Serenella | Landscapes of Risk and Narratives of Liberation: Material Ecocriticism | 2015 |
| Ismar, Julia | How Does Water Flow into Politics? Contested Resource Use in The Emergent State of South Sudan | 2011–2012 |
| Jiménez Rodríguez, Esther | The Multifaceted Active Agent: Nature as a Living Entity in Indian Ocean Narratives | 2026 |
| Jones, Emily | Disaster Narratives and Climate Change | 2016 |
| Jørgensen, Finn Arne | Recycling: Essential Knowledge | 2018 |
| Jouty, Fabienne | History of European Climate Policies, 1979–1997 | 2024–2025 |
| Kang, Eun Sook | A Comparative Analysis of the Nuclear Power Policy between Korea and Germany from the Perspective of Behavioral Economics | 2016 |
| Kaplan-Kinsey, Esmé | Machines as Animals, Animals as Machines: In Search of More-thanHuman Consciousness | 2026 |
| Karch, Brendan | Railroads and the Central European Environment | 2019 |
| Karmakar, Goutam | Extraction and Environmental Injustice: Arguing for the Decolonial Turn | 2023 |
| Keogh, Luke | The Storied Landscape: A Queensland Collection | 2016–2017 |
| King, Nicole | The Anthropocene’s Post-Oasis: Designing Nature and Landscape in Southern California, 1945–65 | 2026 |
| Kleemann, Katrin | ||
| Klingberg, Travis | Domestic Tourism and the Politics of Geographic Knowledge in Post-Reform China | 2016– 2017; 2018 |
| Knowles, Scott | Disaster Research and Policy in Contemporary Germany | 2016 |
| Koycheva, Lora | ||
| Kreutz, Angela | Munu Gukooreree: The Experience of Space and Place Amongst Children in an Aboriginal Community | 2013–2014 |
| Lahnstein, Christian | Environmental Liability, Concepts, and Cases | 2015 |
| Landry, Marc | Europe’s 'White Coal:' The Hydro-Electrification of the European Alps, 1880-1955 | 2010–2011 |
| Lanza, Chiara | The Soilscapes Beneath: Anglophone and Francophone Anthropocenic Narratives | 2023 |
| Lara de la Fuente, Daniel | Ecocentrism within Anthropocentrism: The Ecomodernist Conception of Nature | 2023 |
| LeCain, Timothy | A Physiological and Cognitive History of the Species in the Great Acceleration | 2018 |
| Lekan, Thomas | Arusha 1961: The Making of the “Global Environment” in an East African Town | 2020 |
| Leonetti, Giulia | Ethical and Philosophical Perspective on Anthropocene’s Debate | 2024 |
| Leung, Yuen | Institutional Complementarities and Technical Innovations in the Plastic Recycling Firms: An Analysis of Germany’s Circular Economy Model Through Investigating Multidimensional Coordination Efforts | 2026 |
| Lindemann, Mary | Fractured Lands: War and Its Aftermath in Brandenburg, 1627–1721 | 2024 |
| Lopes, Alfredo Ricardo Silva | Disasters and Memory in Santa Cantarina, Brazil | 2013–2014 |
| López-García, Ángela | Gender and Environment in North-American Science Fiction by Women | 2022 |
| Lummaa, Karoliina | The Poetics of the Anthropocene | 2017 |
| MacEachern, Alan | The Miramichi Fire // Tracking Climate & Its Transformation: Phenology in Canada | 2011 |
| Mack, Jennifer | Modernism’s Hereafters: Reports from the Welfare City | 2026 |
| Maczynska, Magdalena | Representation of Space in Climate Change Fiction | 2018 |
| Magagnoli, Sabina | Integrating the Ecological Humanities and Ecocriticism Within the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language | 2024–2025 |
| Magnus, Riin | An Analysis of Guide Dog/Build Person Interaction and Estonian Islands: Historical Movement Patterns and Environmental Impact | 2011–2012 |
| Malkmus, Bernhard | (Visiting Research Fellow) | 2017 |
| Mani, Aditya | From Green Narratives to Fragmented Governance: Explaining the Implementation Gap in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) | 2026 |
| Matias, Denise Margaret S. | Zoonosis and Cultural Evolution: Mapping the Past, Present and Future of Wildlife Consumption and Trading in Mongolia and the Philippines (ZooMap) | 2026 |
| Mauch, Felix | 'Erinnerungsfluten:' The Storm Flood of 1962 in Hamburg’s Civic Memory | 2014–2015 |
| Mazanik, Anna | Sanitation, Urban Environment and the Politics of Public Health in Late Imperial Moscow | 2013–2014 |
| McCandless, Susannah | (Global Environments Summer Academy) | 2011 |
| Meyer, Tirza | Humanoid Oceans or an Ocean of Humanoids? | 2019 |
| Milder, Steve | West German Anti-Nuclear Activism during the 1970s | 2009– 2010; 2017 |
| Morgan, Ruth | Australindia: An Environmental History of Australia in the Indian Ocean World, 1788–1901 | 2017 |
| Moyano-Fernández, Cristian | Biodiversity at Crossroads: Philosophical Analysis of Triage Conservation | 2025–2026 |
| Müller, Birgit | Seeds, Soils and Politics: Cultivating Citizenship and Growing Food | 2017 |
| Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho, Miguel | The Environmental History of the Chicken in Paraná, Brazil (1960– 80) | 2023–2024 |
| Münster, Ursula | Elephant Encounters: Living With Wildlife in Times of Extinction | 2010 |
| Murray, Ainslie | The Registry of Itinerant Architectures | 2026 |
| Nordlander, Andreas | Ecological Ethics in a European Context: A Comparative Study of Bernard Charbonneau, Hans Jonas, and Erazim Kohák | |
| O’Gorman, Emily | Remaking Wetlands: Cultural Histories of Environmental Change in the MurrayDarling Basin, c. 1800s–2000s | 2015 |
| Ojakorotu, Victor | The Effects of Illegal Mining on Socioeconomic Development of the North West Province, South Africa | 2024 |
| Oldenziel, Ruth | Cycling Cities: The European Experience | 2015 |
| Ospina, Guillermo Andres | Conservation, Livelihoods, and Conflicts in Colombian Highlands | 2014 |
| Özdağ, Ufuk | Restoration Ecocriticism | 2024–2025 |
| Peabody, Seth | Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in German Cinema (2013–2014) & Beyond Green Germany: Conflict and Change in German and Austrian Environmental Culture (2019) | 2013– 2014; 2019 |
| Pessina, Gloria | Energy Transition in an Extreme and Fragile Land: The Case of Sardinia, Italy | 2021 |
| Peterson, Maya | Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867–1941 | 2014 |
| Petterson, Ida Nilstad | Practice–Nature Relations in Design for Transitions and Transformations | 2026 |
| Phelan, Liam | Challenging Perverse Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems | 2017 |
| Polonia, Amélia | Environmental Impacts of the Colonial Dynamics: A Comparative Approach in Colonial America(s), 1500–1700 | 2016 |
| Potter, Rebecca | The Cassandra Effect | 2014 |
| Priebe, Janina | Illuminating Futures: Solar Thermal Technology and Society’s Energy Aspirations | 2025 |
| Prună, Florin | 2020 | |
| Puri, Rajindra | (Global Environments Summer Academy) | 2011 |
| Quagliati, Noemi | Flying Visions, Atmospheres, Chicken Eggs: The Bird Space in the History of Photography | |
| Ramu, Kaushik | Scaling Naïveté: Degrowth, Critique, and the Slow Bourgeoisie | 2025 |
| Rani, Vandana | The Anthropocene in Young Adult Literature: A Comparative Study of Hindi and German Language Literature of the Twenty-First Century | 2026 |
| Reed, Patrick | Apocalyptic Themes of Natural Disaster in 16th and 21st Century Woodcut Prints | 2014–2016 |
| Reis-Castro, Luísa | How to Survive the Mosquito Epoch: Vectorial Politics in Brazil and Beyond | 2026 |
| Reitan, Richard | Value, Time, and Holism: Forest Aesthetics & Capitalism in Early 20th c. Japan | 2019 |
| Rieder, Quirin | Caring Through Electricity: Transforming Political Subjectivities and Environments Through Access to Electricity in Hunza, Northern Pakistan | 2025 |
| Rietig, Katharine | Policy Symbiosis in Sustainable Development: Climate Action and the Forestry Sector | 2026 |
| Rincón Ramos, Stephanie | Reimagining the Anthropocene: Posthuman Kinship and Environmental Consciousness in Children’s Animated Series | 2024 |
| Robert, Tiphaine | The Autocratic Automobile? A Political History of the Car in Switzerland (1950–2000) | 2022–2023 |
| Robin, Libby | Fear of Ferals | 2017 |
| Roscher, Mieke | Zucht und Züchtung: Eine politische Tiergeschichte des „Dritten Reiches“ | 2023–2024 |
| Rosenbaum, Adam | In the Shadow of the Present: Bavarian Tourism and Grounded Modernity, 1800–1950 | 2014 |
| Santangelo, Byron | A Crisis of Liberty: Climate Change and Traumatic Displacement in Teju Cole’s Open City | 2017 |
| Schemper, Lukas | International Organizations and Development in the Age of the “Risk Society” Paradigm (1970s–1980s): IAEA and UNIDO | 2019 |
| Schmitt, Susanne | Decorative Ecologies: Multispecies Creativity in Underwater | 2014–2015 |
| Schneider, Birgit | An Interdisciplinary Scheme for Assessing Transformation in Public Climate Visualization Projects | 2014 |
| Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew | Empirical Ecocriticism | 2018 |
| Schösler, Hanna | Food Sustainability: Socio-Cultural Perspectives | 2012–2013 |
| Schreiber, Dorothee | Ethno-Biology in British Columbia; Scientific Forestry and the Management of Indigenous Reserve Lands; Ethnography of Polar Bear Population Biology | 2011–2012 |
| Schüring, Michael | West German Protestants and Nuclear Technology, 1970–1990 | 2011–2012 |
| Schweizer, Richard | International Epistemic Communities and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: The Genesis of a New International Norm, 1972–2021 | 2024–2025 |
| Seow, Minju | Political Deliberation in Online Communities in South Korea | 2015 |
| Shell, Jacob | The Quadruped and the Infinity Bridge | 2022 |
| Sheng, Fei | Environmental Knowledge, Resource Exploitation, Eco-Imperialism | 2017 |
| Shopov, Aleksandar | Urban Farming and Leasing in Early Modern Istanbul | 2018–2019 |
| Simeoni, Giulia | Averting the Apocalypse: The Responsibility of Writers Facing the Climate Crisis (2000–2021) | 2023–2024 |
| Sollai, Michele | The Global Battle of Wheat: Mobilizing Science for Agrarian Development in Fascist Italy, 1920s–1940s | 2022–2023 |
| Squarcia, Catia | The Role of Human Sciences in Sustainable Development Research | 2014 |
| Stein, Seth | Plate Tectonics, Earthquake Seismology, Earthquake Hazards, and Space Geodesy | 2014 |
| St. John, Rachel | The Imagined States of America: The Unmanifest History of Nineteenth-Century North America | 2016 |
| Stokes Fialová, Lydie | Making Planetary Health Relevant Locally: Designing an Integrative Diagnostic Framework for Participatory, Community- and Place-Based Research and Systemic Intervention | 2026 |
| Stone, Adam | Women Citizen Activists and the End of the Cold War: Soviet Bloc and Western Transnational Connections, 1980–1989 | 2023–2024 |
| Sullivan, Marianne | A Comparative Study of Preventing Childhood Lead Exposure in Germany and the United States | 2018–2019 |
| Sundman, Alice | Aquatic Futures: Literary Imaginings of Climate-Changed Waters | 2026 |
| Tedesco, Lucia | Making the Woods: A Social History of Forests in Fiemme Valley (1866–1914) | 2026 |
| Temple, Samuel | Regulating Nature: State-Making and Environmental Risk in Modern France | 2012 |
| Tremblay, Jean-Thomas | The Climate After the Fact | 2026 |
| Trujillo, Octaviana | (Global Environments Summer Academy) | 2011 |
| Uniyal, Krittika | Contested Aerial Routes: Techno-Politics of Commercial Aviation Infrastructure in the Central Himalayan Region | 2023 |
| Urtnast, Erdenetuya | Some Issues on Environmental Ethics Among the Mongols | 2023–2024 |
| Valadares, Desiree | Unlikely Antiquities: Pacific War as Public Lands | 2026 |
| van Ausdal, Shawn | The Logic of Livestock: Ranching Landscapes in Northern Colombia, 1850-1972 | 2012 |
| van Dooren, Thom | Encountering Crows: World-Making with Scientists and Hunters | 2015–2016 |
| Varga, Anna | Hidden in the Forest: Environmental History and Environmental Knowledge of Charcoal Burning in Central and Eastern Europe Since the Nineteenth Century | 2026 |
| Vasile, Monica | Associative Environmentality: The Revival of Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians | 2016– 2017; 2018 |
| Venugopal, Rajitha | Re-Reading Pachaviral (Green Thumb): A Critical Study of the Life and Works of Dayabai | 2025 |
| Villanueva-Romero, Diana | The New Alliance: Environmental Humanities | 2017 |
| Wang, Zhen | Cultural Landscape Conservation and Sustainable Development in Minority Area, Southwest China | 2016–2017 |
| Warren, Louis | A Hole in the Dream: The 1890 Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America | 2016 |
| Watson, Andrew | London’s Ghost Acres, 1850–1919 | 2015 |
| Wiggin, Bethany | Globalism, Translation, Bilingualism, and Gender Theory in Early Modern and Contemporary History | 2015 |
| Wittmann, Barbara | I Don’t Care—Cultures of Indifferences: Examinations Based on the Example of Environmental and Climate Protection | 2020 |
| Wood, Nathan | Redefining and Operationalizing Energy Justice | 2021–2023 |
| Wormbs, Nina | An Environing Technology: Satellites and the Perception of the Earth | 2018 |
| Xie, Linjun | Smart Eco-Cities for a Green Economy | 2017 |
| Xu, Anning | Water Environment and Human-Land Relationship in History | 2021–2023 |
| Yue, Celeste Yunxiao | Another Jiangnan: Frontier, Nation, Landscape, and Water Conservancy on Ningxia Plain of the Yellow River Basin in China, 1368–2000 | 2024 |
| Zaccaro, Gaia | Post Anthropocene? An Ecocritical Kaleidoscope | 2024–2025 |
| Zairong, Xu | The Rise of German Greens and Its Role in the Development of German Green Politics | 2018 |
| Zanet, Elena | The Linguistic Trajectories of Climate: Italian Climate Crisis Discourse in the Narratives of Corporations, Newspapers, and Activists | 2026 |
| Zuber, Devin | Transforming Wilderness: Painting the Case of Hetch Hetchy | 2016 |
| Zuber, Mike A. | Mining in the Little Ice Age: An Environmental History of Knowledge, 1550–1750 | 2022–2024 |
| Zuber, Devin | Transforming the Wilderness: Painting the Case of Hetch Hetchy | 2016 |