Eleonora Rohland is professor for entangled history in the Americas at Bielefeld University. She was trained as an economic, social, and environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland and received her PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2014, while the research for her dissertation project was funded by a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI). Since 2017 she is a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1288: "Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World" and co-coordinator of the research gro

She is a Professor of Sociology of Education and Pedagogy. Her research interests cover youth and schooling in extreme urban poverty, environmental studies, social inclusion and educational inequalities. She has been involved in several research projects in the slums of San Martin (Buenos Aires), close to the dumpsite of Ceamse and nearby the University. She has experience in innovative community-based research methods through artistic, ethnographic, digital and audio-visual practices. In her most recent projects she focuses on urban cartographies of education and social inequalities.