CURRICULUM VITAE Uwe Lübken

CURRICULUM VITAE
Uwe Lübken
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Leopoldstrasse 11a
80802 München
Education
Habilitation
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2009
Habilitation Thesis: “Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River,
1800-200“ („A History of Flooding on the Ohio River“)
Dr. Phil.
History, University of Cologne, 2002
Dissertation Thesis: “Die USA und die nationalsozialistische
Bedrohung Lateinamerikas” (magna cum laude); Disputation (summa cum laude)
M.A.
Anglo-American History, Modern and Early Modern History, Economics, University
of Cologne, 1996
M.A. Thesis: „‟A Threat to Our National Security‟: Die Debatte über Ölimporte
während der Präsidentschaft Eisenhowers”
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 2/10
Academic and Research Employment
2010 -
Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, Project Coordinator, Natural Disasters and
Migration in Historical Perspective
2009 - 2010
Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, Research Fellow,
2008 – 2009
Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Research Fellow
2004 - 2008
German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA, Research Fellow
2002 - 2004
Cologne School of Journalism, Lecturer in European and Postwar German History
2000 - 2001
University of Cologne, History Department, Institute of Anglo-American History,
Assistant Professor
1999 -2000
Axa-Colonia Insurance Company, Cologne, Research Assistant (“Life Insurance
Companies and the Holocaust”)
May – Dec. 1996
University of Cologne, History Department, Institute of Anglo-American History,
Research Assistant
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
2009
DAAD Travel Fellowship, Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro
2002
Erhardt Imelmann Dissertation Prize, University of Cologne
2002
Research Fellowship, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY
2001
Doctoral Fellowship, Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft (declined by me)
1998
Research Grant, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands
1998
Research Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY
1997
Doctoral Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
1997 – 1999
Doctoral Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung
1996
Research Fellowship, John F. Kennedy-Institute for North-American Studies, Free University
of Berlin
Publications
Books (Author)
Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert
(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2012)
Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937-1945.
(Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2004)
(reviewed in: H-Soz-u-Kult/geschichte.transnational, Journal of American History, Historische Zeitschrift, The
International History Review, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht,
Amerikastudien/American Studies, H-German, FAZ, Handbook of Latin American Studies Online)
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 3/10
Books (Co-Editor)
Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment, and Culture in History, with Greg Bankoff and Jordan Sand
(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
Managing the Unknown: Natural Reserves in Historical Perspective, with Frank Uekötter (Oxford, New York:
Berghahn Books, 2012)
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective, with Franz Mauelshagen (in preparation)
Journals/Special Issues (Guest Editor)
“Beyond the Nation: American History in Transnational Perspective,” with Thomas Adam, Bulletin of the
German Historical Institute, Supplement No.5 (2008)
“Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective,” mit Christof
Mauch, Environment and History (1/2011)
Series Co-Editor
Transatlantische Historische Studien (GHI Book Series), 2006-2008.
Articles
“Revisiting Ulrich Beck‟s Risk Society” (with Lawrence Culver, Heike Egner, Stefania Gallini, Agnes Kneitz,
Cheryl Lousley, Diana Mincyte, Gijs Mom, Gordon Winder), Perspectives 2012.
“The Industrialization of the Ohio River: A Hazardous Perspective”, in: Industrialized Rivers (Stéphane
Castonguay, Matthew Evenden eds.) Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012.
„Cincinnati und die Ohioflut 1937: Eine Extremfallstudie“, in: Bernd Herrmann (ed.), Beiträge zum Göttinger
Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2009 – 2010. Göttingen 2010, 191-209.
“Governing Floods and Riots: Insurance, Risk, and Racism in the Postwar United States”, in: Historical Social
Research/Historische Sozialforschung 35 (4/2010), Special Issue, Cornel Zwierlein, Rüdiger Graf & Magnus
Ressel (eds.) The Production of Human Security in Premodern and Contemporary History, 275-88.
„Undiszipliniert: Ein Forschungsbericht zur Umweltgeschichte“, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 14.07.2010,
<http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/2010-07-001>.
“Explorations into the History of Floods and Flood Control in Germany and the United States”, in: Paths
Crossing: Excursions in German-American Studies (Cora Lee Kluge, Antje Petty eds.), New York et al. 2010,
149-162.
“Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective,” (with Christof
Mauch), Special Issue of Environment and History (1/2011), 1-12.
“‟Playing the Cultural Game‟:“The German Threat to the Western Hemisphere and United States Cultural
Program in Latin America”, in: Nelson A. Rockefeller‟s Office of Inter-American Affairs, 1940-1946 (Gisela
Cramer, Ursula Prutsch, eds., forthcoming 2012)
“‟Poor Dumb Brutes‟ or „Friends in Need‟? Animals and River Floods”, in: Beastly Natures: Human-Animal
Relations at the Crossroads of Cultural and Environmental History (Dorothee Brantz ed.), Charlottesville, VA:
University of Virginia Press, 2010), 246-263.
“Introduction: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective”, in: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute,
Supplement No.5 (2008), 1-9 (with Thomas Adam).
“Die Natur der Gefahr. Zur Geschichte der Überschwemmungsversicherung in Deutschland und den USA”,
in: Behemoth: A Journal on Civilisation 1 (3/2008), Special Issue: Surviving Catastrophes (Anne Dölemeyer,
ed.), 4-20.
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 4/10
“Angst vor dem „Vierten Reich‟: Argentinien in der Bedrohungswahrnehmung der USA”, in: Holger M.
Meding/Georg Ismar (eds.), Argentinien und das Dritte Reich. Mediale und reale Präsenz, Ideologietransfer,
Folgewirkungen. Berlin 2008, 101-120.
“‟Der große Brückentod‟: Überschwemmungen als infrastrukturelle Konflikte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”,
Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 58 (1/2007), 89-114.
“Naturschutz als Schutz vor der Natur: Überschwemmungen und Vulnerabilität im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”,
in: Gert Gröning/Joachim Wolschke Bulmahn (eds.), Naturschutz und Demokratie !?. München 2006 (CGLStudies, Bd.3), 279-84.
“Online-Landschaften: Umweltgeschichte im Internet”, CLIO online-Guide, Oktober 2005 (http://www.clioonline.de/site/lang__de/40208182/default.aspx).
“‟A Dangerous Business‟: Flood Insurance in Historical Perspective”, in: History and Sustainability.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Mauro
Agnoletti et al.), Florence, Italy, February 16-19, 2005, 300-304.
“Zwischen Alltag und Ausnahmezustand: Ein Überblick über die historiographische Auseinandersetzung mit
Naturkatastrophen”, Werkstatt Geschichte 38 (12/2004), 55-64.
“Natural Disasters in Transatlantic Perspective: River Floods in German and U.S. History”, with Christof
Mauch, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 35 (2004), S. 99-111.
„„What is the Western Hemisphere?‟ Spatial Dimensions of United States Interventionist Policy, 1938-41”, in:
Anke Ortlepp, Christoph Ribbat (eds.), Taking up Space: New Approaches to American History (Trier 2004),
89-108.
“‟Americans All‟: The United States, the Nazi Menace, and the Construction of a Panamerican Identity”,
Amerikastudien/American Studies 48 (3/2003), 389-409.
„Nach dem Vorbild der Texas Railroad Commission: Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo und die Gründung der
OPEC”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14. September 2000.
“‟An awfully small world‟: Air Power, die "Vernichtung von Raum" und der Atlantik. Eine amerikanische
Perspektive”, in: Ralph Dietl, Franz Knipping (Hrsg.), Begegnung zweier Kontinente: Die Vereinigten Staaten
und Europa seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg. (Mosaic, Studien und Texte zur amerikanischen Kultur und
Geschichte, Bd. 8) Trier 1999, S.103-120
Conference reports:
“Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment, and Culture in History” (conference report, with Greg Bankoff
and Jordan Sand) Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 43 (Fall 2008): 140-150.
“Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective” (conference report,
with Christof Mauch) Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 42 (Spring 2008): 118-124.
“‟A Humanitarian as Broad as the World‟: Abraham Lincoln‟s Legacy in International Context” (conference
report, with Jörg Nagler) Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 42 (Spring 2008): 133-138.
“Beyond the Nation: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective” (conference report), Bulletin of the German
Historical Institute 41 (Fall 2007): 102-107.
“Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Environmental History”, (conference report, with Karen Oslund)
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 38 (Spring 2006): 135-137.
Reviews (Selection):
David Welky, The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2011) (Ohio Valley History).
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 5/10
Gerrit J. Schenk (Hrsg.): Katastrophen. Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel. Ostfildern 2009
(geschichte.transnational)
Anthony N. Penna, The Human Footprint. A Global Environmental History. Oxford 2009,
(geschichte.transnational)
François Walter, Katastrophen. Eine Kulturgeschichte vom 16. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart, 2010
(Archiv für Kulturgeschichte)
Norbert Fischer, Im Antlitz der Nordsee. Zur Geschichte der Deiche in Hadeln, Stade: Verlag des
Landschaftsverbandes der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden 2007 (sehepunkte)
Robert D. Billinger Jr. Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State, Gainesville University Press of Florida, 2008,
reviewed for H-TGS, December 2010.
Andreas Ranft, Stephan Selzer (eds.), Städte aus Trümmern: Katastrophenbewältigung zwischen Antike und
Moderne, reviewed for: FES-Online, 2009.
Ursula Lehmkuhl/Hermann Wellenreuther (eds.), Historians and Nature: Comparative Approaches to
Environmental History, reviewed for: H Soz Kult (3. Februar 2009)
Wolfgang Behringer, Kulturgeschichte des Klimas, reviewed for: sehepunkte 8 (11/2008).
Deborah Pickman Clifford, Nicholas R. Clifford, “The Troubled Roar of the Waters,” Vermont in Flood and
Recovery, 1927-1931. Durham, NH, 2007, reviewed for: Journal of American History 95 (1/June 2008), 255.
Guido N. Poliwoda, Aus Katastrophen lernen. Sachsen im Kampf gegen die Fluten der Elbe 1784 bis 1845,
Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2007, reviewed for: sehepunkte 8 (4/2008).
Rolf Peter Sieferle, Fridolin Krausmann, Heinz Schandl u.a., Das Ende der Fläche. Zum gesellschaftlichen
Stoffwechsel der Industrialisierung (= Umwelthistorische Forschungen; Bd. 2), Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2006,
reviewed for: sehepunkte 7 (9/2007)
Alfred M. Beck, Hitler‟s Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941,
reviewed for: Journal of Military History 71 (1/2007), S.251-252.
Tilmann J. Röder, Rechtsbildung im wirtschaftlichen "Weltverkehr". Das Erdbeben von San Francisco und die
internationale Standardisierung von Vertragsbedingungen, 1871-1914 (= Studien zur Europäischen
Rechtsgeschichte 206), Frankfurt a.M. 2006, reviewed for: H-Soz-u-Kult, 3. Oktober 2006.
Dieter Schott, Bill Luckin und Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud (Hrsg.), Resources of the City: Contributions to
an Environmental History of Modern Europe (= Historical Urban Studies), Aldershot: Ashgate 2005,
besprochen in: sehepunkte 6 (7-8/2006).
Christian Pfister, Stephanie Summermatter (Hrsg.), Katastrophen und ihre Bewältigung: Perspektiven und
Positionen. Bern, Stuttgart, Wien 2004, reviewed for: sehepunkte 6 (7-8/2006).
Max Paul Friedman, Nazis & Good Neighbors. The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin
America in World War II, Cambridge 2003, reviewed for: sehepunkte 5 (2/2005)
Andreas Suter, Manfred Hettling (Hrsg.), Struktur und Ereignis. (Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Sonderheft 19)
Göttingen 2001, reviewed for: 1999 (2/2002), S.228-30.
Wilfried Loth, Jürgen Osterhammel (Hrsg.), Internationale Geschichte: Themen - Ergebnisse - Aussichten.
München 2000, reviewed for: 1999 (1/2002), S.197-99.
Philipp Gassert, Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Volksmeinung und Propaganda. Stuttgart 1997,
reviewed for: Amerikastudien/American Studies 45 (2/2000), S.272-74.
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 6/10
Courses Taught
University of Cologne, History Department, Institute of Anglo-American History
„Raum als soziale Dimension: ausgewählte Beispiele aus der amerikanischen Architektur-, Stadt- und
Sozialgeschichte” (2000)
„Amerikanische Geschichte von 1919 bis 1933” (2000)
„New Deal und „Kampf um die Weltmacht”: Amerikanische Geschichte von 1933 bis 1945” (2000/01)
„The „Lost Decade‟? Die USA in den 1970er Jahren (2000/01)
„Geschichte Kaliforniens” (2001)
„Accidental History: Zufall, Unfall und Fehler in der amerikanischen Geschichte” (2001)
Cologne School of Journalism
“Deutsche Geschichte nach 1945” (2002 through 2004)
“Geschichte der Europäischen Integration” (2002 through 2004)
Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich
Roads, Rails, Rivers: Transportation and the Environment in American History (2009/10, with Christof Mauch)
American Environmental History (2010)
“The Permanent Disaster? Natural Hazards, Natural Catastrophes, and Climatic Challenges in American
History” (2011/12)
Conferences Organized
Small Islands and Natural Hazards, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, September 2012 (with Rebecca
Hofmann, RCC).
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, August 4 – 6,
2011 (with Franz Mauelshagen, KWI).
Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion, Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg, March 4-5 (with Kristin von Heyking,
RCC, and Michaela Harbeck, Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie, Munich).
Summer Workshop on Environmental History, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, June 7 - 9 2010, Munich,
Germany (with Franziska Torma, RCC)
Doctoral Workshop: The History of Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters, Rachel Carson
Center, Munich, May 27 – 29, 2010 (with Franz Mauelshagen, KWI, and Franziska Torma, RCC)
Workshop Mobility and the Environment, 3-5 June 2010, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich (with Gijs Mom,
Technical University Eindhoven, and Clapperton Mavhunga, MIT)
Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment and Culture in History, May 15-17, 2008, Conference at the
German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (with Greg Bankoff, University of Hull, and Jordan Sand,
Georgetown University)
Managing the Unknown: Natural Reserves in Historical Perspective, February 21-23, 2008, Conference at the
German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (with Frank Uekötter, Deutsches Museum, Munich)
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 7/10
A Humanitarian as Broad as the World: Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in International Context, Oktober 4-6,
2007, Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (with Gabor Boritt, Gettysburg College
and Jörg Nagler, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission)
Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective, September 13 - 15,
2007, Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (with Christof Mauch, LudwigMaximilians-University Munich)
Beyond the Nation: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective (GHI Young Scholars Forum 2007), March 29April 1, 2007, Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington (with Thomas Adam, University of Texas at
Arlington)
Panels Organized
“Mobility, Migration, and Natural Hazards” (Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental
History, April 2013, Toronto, in preparation)
“Nature by Numbers: Natural Hazard Insurance in Historical Perspective” (Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Environmental History, March 27 – 31, 2012, Madison, WI)
“The Rhine as an Environmental System” (Third Transnational Rhine Conference, Bochum, Institute for
Social Movements-Ruhr University, Bochum, December 1-3, 2011)
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“The Park is the Spark“: Explorations into the Transformation of Urban Green Space” (6 Meeting of the
European Society for Environmental History, Turku, June 28 – July 2, 2011)
„Fire, Floods, War: The Nature of Urban Disasters” (Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Environmental History, March 10 – 13, 2010, Portland, OR)
“Environmental Risk and Insurance I: Medieval and Early Modern Approaches” and “Environmental Risk and
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Insurance II: Calculating Catastrophe in the Modern World” (two panels submitted to the 1 World Congress
on Environmental History: Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges, Copenhagen, August 4-8, 2009)
“Exploring Transnationalism in Environmental History: Park System Planning, River Floods and Livestock
Diseases in the North-Atlantic World” (European Society for Environmental History, Fourth International
Conference: Environmental Connections, Amsterdam, June 5-9, 2007, panel report by Sonja Dümpelmann
and Dorothee Brantz, in: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 41 (Fall 2007): 141-143)
“War, Culture, Propaganda: Nelson Rockefeller and the U.S. „Information Program‟ in Latin America During
World War II” (Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, March 15-18, 2006, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; panel report by Gisela Cramer, in: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 39 (Fall 2006): 116117).
Invited Talks, Presentations, Chairs (Selection)
“Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space” (9th European Social Science
History Conference Glasgow, April 11-14, 2012)
“Nature by Numbers: Natural Hazard Insurance in Historical Perspective”, Panel Commentator (Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, March 27 – 31, 2012, Madison, WI)
“Historia Magistra Vitae, or so they say. Why Societies Do not Necessarily Learn from Past Disasters,”
("Communicating Disaster", ZIF, Bielefeld University, January 25-26, 2012).
„Ohio River Floods: a History“ (Forschungskolloquium Sylvia Hahn, Reinhold Reith, Universität Salzburg,
January 18, 2011)
“The Rhine as an Environmental System”, Panel Commentator (Third Transnational Rhine Conference,
Bochum, Institute for Social Movements-Ruhr University, Bochum, December 1-3, 2011)
Curriculum vitae – Uwe Luebken 8/10
“Überschwemmungsgebiete: Anmerkungen zur Geschichte eines umkämpften Ortes” (Arbeitsgruppe
Artenschutz Thüringen e.V. – Fachtagung Auenökologie: Hochwasser- und Artenschutz, Jena, November 23, 2011)
“Environmental Change and Migration: A Survey” (Introductory Talk at the Conference Environmental
Change and Migration in Historical Perspective, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, August 4 – 6, 2011, together
with Franz Mauelshagen (KWI)).
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“The Imagery of Natural Disasters in the United States,” (6 Meeting of the European Society for
Environmental History, Turku, June 28 – July 2, 2011)
"Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert",
(Münsteraner Gespräche zur Geschichte, Universität zu Münster, 24. November 2010)
„Die Natur als Kasino? Zur Geschichte der Versicherung von Hochwasserschäden“ (Interdisziplinäre
Fachtagung „Unberechenbare Umwelt: Zum Umgang mit Unsicherheit und Nicht-Wissen bei der Gestaltung
und Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ökosysteme“, Freiburg 18.-19. November 2010)
Teilnehmer am “Roundtable zur Geschichte von Naturkatastrophen” (48. Deutscher Historikertag, 1. Oktober
2010, Berlin)
„Natur, Gefahr und Versicherung in den USA: Das National Flood Insurance Program, 1956-2005“ (9. Sitzung
des Arbeitskreises Bank- und Versicherungsgeschichte: Versicherungen und Umweltrisiken, Düsseldorf, 10.
September 2010)
“The 1937 Ohio River Flood: A Forgotten Disaster?” (Green Cultures: Environmental Knowledge, Climate,
and Catastrophe. A conference organized by the Bavarian American Academy and the Rachel Carson
Center, Munich, 9 -10 July 2010)
“Nature's Casino? Flooding, Risk, and Insurance in European and American History” (First ESEH European
Summer School in Environmental History: Events, disasters, narratives and temporalities in environmental
history, Musée national de Port Royal des Champs, Yvelines, France, June 28- July 2, 2010)
“Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space” (Vortrag vor dem International
Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with
the Future in East Asia and Europe,” Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, May 3, 2010)
Governing Floods and Riots in U.S. History (The Production of Human Security in Premodern and
Contemporary History; Conveners: Cornel Zwierlein, Rüdiger Graf, Magnus Ressel, Rebecca Knapp,
Bochum April 8-10, 2010)
“Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space” (Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Environmental History, March 10 – 13, 2010, Portland, OR)
"Risikogesellschaften? Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert."
(Umwelthistorisches Kolloquium Göttingen, 27 January 2010)
“Risk Societies? Flooding and the Industrialisation of the Rhine and Ohio River Valleys“ (Creating a
Transnational Rhine Economy, 1850-2000. Kick-off Meeting of a Transnational Rhine Network, Rotterdam,
November 12 – 14, 2009)
“The Industrialization of the Ohio River: A Hazardous Perspective” (invited talk, conference “Industrialized
Rivers”, Montreal, September 2009)
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“Nature‟s Casino? Flooding, Risk, and Insurance in European and American History” (1 World Congress on
Environmental History: Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges, Copenhagen, August 4-8, 2009)
"Americans All"?: The Nazi Threat to Latin America and the U.S. Construction of a Pan-American Identity”
(Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, June 11-14, 2009, Rio de Janeiro)
“Explorations into the History of Floods and Flood Control in Germany and the United States” (invited talk ,
conference ”Excursions in German-American Studies”, Madison, WI, April 2009)
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“Nature‟s Casino? The History of Flood Insurance in Germany and the United States” (invited talk, Risk and
Planet Earth: Vulnerability, Natural Hazards, Integrated Adaptation Strategies, Leipzig University, March 2-4,
2009)
“The Flood that Didn‟t Change America: The 1937 Catastrophe on the Ohio River” (Lecture, Amerika-Institut,
LMU Munich, December 2008)
„Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space” (5th International Round Table on
Urban Environmental History, “The Place of the City in Environmental History”, Technical University Berlin,
July 3-5, 2008)
Chair for panel “Imperial Natures – Parks and Empires” at the conference “Civilizing Nature: National Parks in
Transnational Historical Perspective,” German Historical Institute, June 12-14, 2007, Washington, DC
“The Environment as Risk: River Floods and Flood Control in Germany and the United States” (European
Society for Environmental History, Fourth International Conference: Environmental Connections, Amsterdam,
June 5-9, 2007)
Chair for panel “Animals and Environmental History” at the conference “Environmental History and the Cold
War,” German Historical Institute, March 22-25, 2007, Washington, DC
“‟79.99 - Call it 80‟: Cincinnati and the 1937 Ohio River Flood” (Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Environmental History: Living on the Edge: Human Desires and Environmental Realities, February 28 –
March 3, 2007, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
“Angst vor dem „Vierten Reich‟: Argentinien in der Bedrohungswahrnehmung der USA” (Argentinien und das
Dritte Reich: Mediale und reale Präsenz, Ideologietransfer, Folgewirkungen, University of Cologne,
December 15-17, 2006)
“Hochwasser und Versicherungen – Ökonomische Aspekte von Umweltrisiken in der Geschichte”
(Kolloquium Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Prof. Dr. Werner Plumpe, Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt am Main, May 23, 2006)
“Rivers Run Over Them: The Floodplain as a Contested Space in Germany and the United States, 18002000” (Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History: Rivers Run Through Them:
Landscapes in Environmental History, March 29 – April 2, 2006, St. Paul, MN)
“War, Culture, Propaganda: Nelson Rockefeller and the U.S. “Information Program” in Latin America During
World War II” (Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, March 15-18, 2006, San Juan,
Puerto Rico)
“‟Der große Brückentod‟: Überschwemmungen als infrastrukturelle Konflikte im neunzehnten und
zwanzigsten Jahrhundert” (“Infrastrukturen und natürliche Ressourcen in der Umweltgeschichte”, Workshop,
September 30 - October 1, 2005, Königswinter)
„Doing Transnational Environmental History: The Case of River Floods“, (“Thinking through the Environment”,
Joint Meeting of the 8th Turku Methodological Conference and the 6th Nordic Environmental History
Conference, September 15 - 17, 2005, Turku)
“The German Threat to the Western Hemisphere and the Role of Cultural Diplomacy” (Nelson A.
Rockefeller‟s Office of Inter-American Affairs, 1940-1946, Workshop at the Rockefeller Archive Center,
Tarrytown, NY, August 25-26, 2005)
“River Floods in German and US History” (Workshop with the Göttingen Graduate School in Environmental
History at the German Historical Institute, August 8, 2005, Washington, DC)
„Nature, Risk, Insurance: The History of Flood Insurance in Europe and the United States“ (European Society
for Environmental History, Third International Conference, February 16-19, 2005, Florence)
„Naturschutz als Schutz vor der Natur: Überschwemmungen und Vulnerabilität im neunzehnten und
zwanzigsten Jahrhundert“, (Naturschutz und Demokratie, Interdisziplinärer Workshop zur Umweltgeschichte,
November 18-20, 2004, Königswinter)
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„Natural Disasters in Transatlantic Perspective: River Floods in U.S. and German History“ (2nd Conference of
the Transatlantic Studies Association, Juli 12-15, 2004, Dundee)
„Critical Geopolitics und die Konstruktion einer Nord-Süd-Achse durch die Regierung Roosevelt, 1938 –
1942” (Weltbilder, Geopolitik und Krisen, Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Geopolitische Analysen,
November 15-16, 2002, Bonn)
„Barrier or Highway? The United States, Nazi-Germany, and the „Shrinking Atlantic‟” (Launch Conference of
the Transatlantic Studies Association, July 8-11, 2002, Dundee)
„‟Playing the Cultural Game‟: Nelson Rockefeller and the German Threat to Latin America” (Latin America,
North America, and Europe - International Encounters and Relations in Historical Perspective, Conference at
the University of Oregon, April 10-14, 2002, Portland, OR)
„‟What is the Western Hemisphere‟? Spatial Dimensions of American Foreign Policy, 1938-45” (DGfAHistorikertagung, February 22-24, 2002, Tutzing)
„‟Americans All‟: Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland, die USA und die Konstruktion einer
panamerikanischen Identität” (Arbeitskreis lateinamerikanische Geschichte, April 2-4, 1999, Bielefeld)
„‟An awfully small world‟: Air Power, die „Vernichtung von Raum‟ und der Atlantik aus amerikanischer
Perspektive” (4. NRW-Amerikanisten Konferenz, July 3-4, 1998, Wuppertal)
Other Academic Activities
RCC/ESEH Turku Book Prize Committee 2012
Selection Committee, RCC/ESEH Summer School “Water - Culture – Politics”, Venedig 2011
International Preparation Committee, First World Congress on Environmental History, Copenhagen 2009.
Search Committee, GHI-Environmental History Fellowship 2008.
Local Organizer of the Photo Exhibition “Pilgrims on the Ohio: The River Journey & Photographs of Reuben
Gold Thwaites, 1894,” GHI Washington, February – May 2008.
Co-Organizer of the Lecture Series “African-Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters”, GHI
Washington, Spring 2008 (with Anke Ortlepp).
Research Asistant, OSS/CIA Oral History Project, Washington, DC (March – June 1997).
Memberships
European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung (GSU)
Bayrische Amerika-Akademie (BAA)
imigr - network on environmental change and migration
December 2011