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– From October 2026, I will serve as Interim Professor of History of Technology and Economic History at TU Dresden. My research brings together perspectives from environmental history and the history of technology and science, with a particular focus on the history of infrastructures, maintenance and repair, and material history.
My current postdoctoral project deals with the history of creosote. The material history of this coal tar oil – that is used until today for wood impregnation – combines research perspectives from the history of technology (such as on maintenance and repair) with environmental and material history. Its name is connected today with dozens of contaminated land sites, thousands of tons of hazardous waste, and burning environmental justice issues that I explore in my project.
Header Image: Culebra Cut, 1913: A. B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection, Notebook Vol. 48C;
Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology