Christof Mauch
Principal investigator
He is Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and Chair in American Cultural History at LMU Munich. He is an Honorary Professor and Senior Fellow at the Center for Ecological History of Renmin University in China, a past President of the European Society for Environmental History, an Affiliate of the New Center Institute of Environmental Humanities in Venice, and a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (1999-2007). Mauch has received many awards for his research and professional engagement including the Teaching Innovation Award of LMU (in 2019 and 2023), the Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History Award of the American Society for Environmental History 2017), and the Planetary of the Institute of Future Competences (2015). His recent books include Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear (2019); and Paradise Blues: Travels through American Environmental History (2024).
