History
A nonprofit institution, the RCC was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) and the Deutsches Museum, directed by LMU Munich’s chair in US American cultural history, Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, and the head of research at the Deutsches Museum, Prof. Dr. Helmut Trischler.
For the first twelve years, the RCC was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a Center for Advanced Study (Käte Hamburger Kolleg). Since 2021, it has evolved into a permanent center of LMU Munich, directed by Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch. In 2023, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sonja Dümpelmann, head of the newly established Chair of Environmental Humanities, joined as codirector.
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