Contact
LMU Munich
Leopoldstr. 11a
D-80802 Munich
Email:
Sonja.Duempelmann@rcc.lmu.de
Website:
https://www.sonjaduempelmann.com/
Sonja Dümpelmann joined the Rachel Carson Center in July 2023 as co-director and new chair of environmental humanities at LMU Munich. Dümpelmann is a historian of urban landscapes and environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among other things, she will bring concerns related to the built environment, its use, form, design, and representation as well as plants into discussions in the environmental humanities. Before moving to Munich, she was a tenured full professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. More information on her work and previously held positions can be found on her website.
Research Interests
- Landscape history
- Environmental history
- Urban history
- History of the built environment
- History of science and technology, especially its intersection with the built environment/landscapes
- Garden and landscape studies
- Visual culture studies
- Plants in history
Currently Supervised Doctoral Students
RCC
- Jonas Danen, “The New World as Garden: Harvesting the American Natural Landscape”
- Jana Igl, “Eine Ethik der Naturbasierten Lösungen und Grüner Infrastruktur”