Heidi V. Scott is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and taught at Aberystwyth University (Wales) before joining UMass Amherst in 2011. A historian and historical geographer of the colonial Andes, her work to date has focused on landscape experience and colonialism, cartography, and, most recently, on mining and subterranean imaginaries. She is author of Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Notre Dame U.P., 2009).

Helge Wendt is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests lie mainly in global history. He received his PhD from the University of Mannheim with a transnational, transconfessional, and diachronic study of colonial Christian mission. For the past ten years, he has been researching primarily on the topic of a global history of knowledge of coal from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Here lies his connection to the topic of mining and the Anthropocene.

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