julia.herzberg@carsoncenter.lmu.deJulia Herzberg joined the Rachel Carson Center in 2009. She is working on an environmental history of “Frost” in Russia (eighteenth – twentieth century) that scrutinizes various social and cultural aspects of Russia’s harsh climate. She studied history, Russian, and German in Cologne, Volgograd, Moscow, and Bielefeld, receiving her Staatsexamen in 2005. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of late imperial Russia. She has published on the history of autobiography, religion, archival history, and historiography. In 2011, she completed her PhD (Bielefeld University), which focused on autobiographical texts of peasants in Tsarist Russia for which she has received a DFG Doctoral Grant, a DAAD Research Grant, and a grant from the FAZIT Foundation.
Current Research Project: Frost: The Cold as a Cultural Challenge in Russia (pdf, 17 KB).Full Publications (pdf, 40 KB)
