Danielle Schmitz, MA

Danielle Schmitz studied economics with courses specialized to global change ecology and philosophy. She completed her BA in Economics from Calgary, Canada before moving to Bayreuth, Germany to complete her MA in Philosophy & Economics. Danielle wrote her master’s thesis on the economic and livelihood impacts of biofuel production, completing a period of fieldwork in Ghana to study a jatropha plantation. Previous to this, she worked as a natural energy trading analyst for Deloitte Canada and has taught tutorials for Decision Theory (Game Theory), Philosophy of Economics and English Academic Writing. Danielle joined the Doctoral Program Environment and Society in April 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Simone Müller. Her PhD thesis once again combines economics and ecology to study research biases in economic studies of the environment.

Dissertation Project

How Economists ‘See’ the Environment: Textual Framing and Research Bias in Current Economic Research on the Environment, 2016-today

Selected Publications

• Scheil, Danielle. 2016. “The Method of History and Linguistic Relativism.” Rerum Causae. 2016. London School of Economics; London. Volume VIII, Issue II, pp. 27-36.

Conference Presentations

• Invited Speaker “Beyond the Biofuel Hype: A Gendered Approach to Livelihood Studies” Women in Philosophy Lecture Series, Bayreuth, Germany, May 2018.
• Speaker “The Method of History and Linguistic Relativism” London School of Economics-Bayreuth Student Philosophy Conference, May 2016.