People

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Directors

Eveline Dürr
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Director, Urban Environments Initiative 
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Website: https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/duerr/index.html
Regine Keller
Technische universität München
Director, Urban Environments Initiative 
Professor of Landscape Architecture

 

Website: https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/keller-regine/
Christof Mauch
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Director, Rachel Carson Center 
Chair in American Culture and Transatlantic Relations 
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/staff_fellows/directors/
christof_mauch/index.html

Staff

Daniel Dumas
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Program Associate/PhD Candidate  
Department of Geography/Rachel Carson Center
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/staff_fellows/doktoranden/daniel_dumas/index.html
Carolin Maertens
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Program Associate/PhD Candidate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropolgy 
Website: https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/lecturer/maertens/index.html

Members

Raúl Acosta
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Post-doctoral Researcher
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Website: https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/lecturer/acosta/index.html
Joseph Adeniran Adedeji
FEderal University of technology, Akure, Nigeria
Marie Aschenbrenner
Ludwig-maximilians-universität München
Maan Barua
University of Cambridge
Lecturer in Human Geography 
Department of Geography
Website: https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/barua/
Benedikt Boucsein
Technische Universität München
Professor of Urban Design 
Department of Architecture
Website: https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/boucsein-benedikt/
Dorothee Brantz
Technische Universität Berlin
John Burt
New York University Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Biology
Program Head, Environmental Studies
Website: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/
science/faculty/
john-burt.html
Young Rae Choi
florida international university
Assistant Professor of Geography 
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Website: https://gss.fiu.edu/people/faculty/young-rae-choi/
Thomas Cousins
University of Oxford
Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa
Fellow of St. Hugh’s College
 


Website: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-thomas-cousins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sonja Dümpelmann
University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
Website: https://www.design.upenn.edu/landscape-architecture/people/sonja-d%C3%BCmpelmann
Matthew Gandy
University of Cambridge
Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography and
Fellow of King’s College
Website: 
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/gandy/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rob Gioielli
university of Cincinnati, Blue Ash college
Associate Professor of History
Director, Blue Ash College Honors Program
Website: https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/gioielr
Sasha Gora
Ca' foscari University of Venice
Post-Doctoral Fellow 
Humanities & Social Change Center
at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Website: https://hscif.org/gora/ 
Karen Holmberg
New york university
Vistiting Assistant Professor 
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Website: https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/kgh1.html
Sophia Kalantzakos
New york university Abu dhabi
Global Distinguished Professor
Environmental Studies and Public Policy
Website: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/arts-and-humanities/faculty/sophia-kalantzakos.html
Mary Killilea
New York University
Clinical Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Program Advisor Environmental Studies 
Website: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/mary-killilea.html
Gesa Lüdecke
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Ferdinand Ludwig
Technische Universität München
Professor, Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture
Department of Architecture
Website: https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/ludwig-ferdinand/
Felix Mauch
Technische Universität München
Assistant Professor in the History of Technology 
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS)
Website: https://www.edu.tum.de/en/fggt/team/felix-mauch/
Simone Müller
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Principal Investigator
DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy”
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/staff_fellows/programs-and-projects/mueller_simone1/index.html
Stephan Pauleit
Technische Universität München
Professor, Strategy and Management of Landscape development
TUM School of Life Sciences
Website: https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/pauleit-stephan/
Anne Rademacher
New York University
Associate Professor
Program of Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology
Website: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/anne-rademacher.html
Talitta Reitz
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
PhD Candidate  
RECOMS early stage researcher/Rachel Carson Center
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/staff_fellows/doktoranden/talitta_reitz/
index.html
Elena Torres Ruiz
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Dorothee Rummel
Technische Universität München
Researcher 
Faculty of Architecture
Website: https://www.ar.tum.de/land/team/dorothee-rummel/
Kara Schlichting
City university of New York
Assistant Professor
Department of History, Queens College
Website: https://www.karaschlichting.com/about-1
Shaunak Sen
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Filmmaker, video artist, and film scholar

Website: https://factoryartscentre.com/en/artist_maker/shaunak-sen-2/
Avi Sharma
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT Berlin
Anindya "Rana" Sinha
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Professor
Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme
Website: http://www.nias.res.in/PROFESSOR/ANINDYA-SINHA
Nishant Srinivasaiah
National institute of advanced studies
Bettina Stoetzer
MassachusetTs institute of Technology
Associate Professor 
Anthropology Department  
Website: https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/bettina-stoetzer
Friederike Well
Technische Universität München
Research Assistant
Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture
Website: https://www.ar.tum.de/en/gtla/team/
Gordon Winder
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Professor of Economic Geography and Sustainability Research, Department of Geography
Website: https://www.geographie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/personen/index.php?personen_details=1&user_id=187
Kate Wright
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Rachel Carson Center Fellow
Environmental Humanities
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/fellows/carson_fellows/katherine_wright/
index.html
Amy Zhang
New York University
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Website: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/amy-zhang.html