Prof. Dr. Uwe Lübken

Dozent und Koordinator des M.A. Environment and Society Programms

Amerika-Institut | Rachel Carson Center

Büroadresse:

Leopoldstr. 11a

80802 München

Personal Details

1996
M.A. in Anglo-American History, Universität zu Köln
2000-2001
Academic Staff, Historisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln
2002
Promotion (Dr. Phil.) in Anglo-American History, Universität zu Köln
2002-2004
Lecturer, Europäische und Deutsche Geschichte, Kölner Journalistenschule
2004-2008
Research Fellow, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Washington, DC, USA
2008-2009, 2014-2015
Academic Staff, Amerika-Institut, LMU München
2009-2010
Applied Research Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, LMU München
2010
Habilitation, LMU München ("North Atlantic Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations")
2010-2014
Head of BMBF Projektes “Natural Disasters and Migration in Historical Perspective”, Rachel Carson Center, LMU München
2016-2021
Professor, Amerikanische Kulturgeschichte und transatlantische Beziehungen, Amerika-Institut, LMU München (5-year Substitute Professor for Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch)
2021-2023
Adjunct Professor, LMU München
2023-present
Head of DFG-Projektes “Vanport, Oregon: Umweltgerechtigkeit, Vertreibung und die Rekonstruktion einer ‚verlorenen Stadt‘“
2023-present
Coordinator of Master Program in "Environment and Society," LMU München

Research

  • American Environmental History
  • Rivers and Dams
  • Migration History
  • Natural Catastrophes

Selected Publications

  • Rivers of the Americas, Special Issue of Reviews in International American Studies (RIAS) 14 (1/2021) (mit Manlio Della Marca).
  • Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relations (mit Martin Knoll und Dieter Schott). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press 2017.
  • Managing the Unknown: Natural Reserves in Historical Perspective (mit Frank Uekötter, New York: Berghahn Books, 2014, paperback 2016).
  • Sinking, Shrinking, Resurfacing? Small Islands and Natural Hazards in Historical and Current Perspectives (mit Rebecca Hofmann), Special Issue von Global Environment 8 (2015).
  • Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2014.
  • Environmental Change and Migration in History (Special Issue of Global Environment 5 (9/2012). Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 4/7
  • Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (mit Greg Bankoff und Jordan Sand, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).
  • Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937-1945. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2004.

  • “Concrete History: Flood Walls on the Ohio River.” In Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North, edited by Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2024.
  • “Wie natürlich sind Naturkatastrophen? Anmerkungen aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive.” In Naturkatastrophen, edited by Beate Kellner und Andreas Höfele, 361–83. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2022. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767429_016.
  • “Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City.” Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies, no. 19 (2022): 66–81. https://doi.org/10.13136/22814582/2022.i19.1161.
  • “Histories of the Unprecedented: Climate Change, Environmental Transformations, and Displacement in the United States.” Open Library of Humanities Journal 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.347.

Teaching

  • Cycling and the Environment
  • Disaster Studies
  • Climate Change and Society
  • The Anthropocene: Elements and Ideas, Histories and Concepts
  • Master's Thesis Colloquium