Prof. Dr. Uwe Lübken

Uwe Lübken has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, and at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His publications include a prize-winning book on the US perception of the National Socialist threat to Latin America and several edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) transnational and environmental history. He has published a history of flooding of the Ohio River (2014) and coedited volumes on urban fires (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), the management of natural resources (Berghahn Books, 2014), and city–river relations (Pittsburgh University Press, 2016). Most recently, he has edited, together with his colleague Manlio Della Marca, a special issue of Reviews in International American Studies (RIAS, 2021) on “Rivers of the Americas.”

Uwe obtained his doctoral degree in Anglo-American history from the University of Cologne and his habilitation from LMU in American cultural history.

In Seeing the Woods: Climates of Migration: An Interview with Uwe Lübken

Recent Articles:

• “Concrete History: Flood Walls along the Ohio River.” In Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North, edited by Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj. London: Palgrave McMillan forthcoming.
• “Wie natürlich sind Naturkatastrophen? Anmerkungen aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive.” In Naturkatastrophen, edited by Beate Kellner und Andreas Höfele, 361–83. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2022. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767429_016.
• “Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City.” Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies, no. 19 (2022): 66–81. https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i19.1161.

Selected Publications:

• with Manlio Della Marca, eds. “Rivers of the Americas.” Special issue, Reviews in International American Studies (RIAS) 14, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.12459.
• with Martin Knoll and Dieter Schott, eds. Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relations. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017.
• with Frank Uekötter, eds. Managing the Unknown: Natural Reserves in Historical Perspective. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. Paperback 2016.
• with Rebecca Hofmann, eds. “Sinking, Shrinking, Resurfacing? Small Islands and Natural Hazards in Historical and Current Perspectives.” Special issue, Global Environment 8, no. 1 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2015.080101.
• Die Natur der Gefahr: Überschwemmungen am Ohio River im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2014.
• ed. “Environmental Change and Migration in History.” Special issue, Global Environment 5, no. 9 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2012.050901.
• with Greg Bankoff and Jordan Sand, eds. Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
• with Lawrence Culver, Heike Egner, Stefania Gallini, Agnes Kneitz, Cheryl Lousley, Diana Mincyte, Gijs Mom, Gordon Winder, eds. “Revisiting Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society.” RCC Perspectives, no. 6 (2011).
• with Christof Mauch, eds. “Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective.” Special issue, Environment and History 17, no. 1 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3197/096734011X12922358301012.
• with Thomas Adam, eds. “Beyond the Nation: American History in Transnational Perspective.” Supplement, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. S5 (2008).
• Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937–1945. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2004.