Christof Mauch

Christof Mauch is Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (a Käte Hamburger Kolleg), and Chair in American Cultural History at LMU Munich. He is an Honorary Professor at the Center for Ecological History of Renmin University in China, a past President of the European Society for Environmental History and a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (1999-2007). His recent books include Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear (2019), Urwald der Bayern (2020), and Paradise Blues: Auf der Suche nach der amerikanischen Natur (in print).