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Andreas Jünger is an environmental historian specializing in agro-environmental history, political environmental history, agro-food studies, and the environmental humanities. His regional expertise spans Europe (esp. Spain and Germany) and the Americas (esp. the USA and Chile).
His doctoral dissertation, “Zwischen Gegenwelt und Mainstream: Eine Geschichte des Ökolandbaus in Andalusien in spanisch-europäischer Perspektive” (Between counter-world and mainstream: A history of organic farming in Andalusia in a Spanish-European perspective), which he defended in February 2026, investigates the transformation of agro-ecological conditions and the emergence of organic farming in Andalusia, southern Spain, from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. The work traces influential actors, ideas, and practices, placing particular emphasis on questions of materiality and the transnational dimensions of negotiation processes.
Andreas holds a bachelor’s degree in history and Romance studies (Spanish) from the University of Bonn and a master’s degree in history from the University of Münster. He has conducted extensive research in southern Spain and served as a visiting doctoral student at the University of Málaga in 2021 (Gustav Schübeck Scholarship). His academic career includes a fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz (2024) and a residency at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (2025). Previously, he also worked as events coordinator (2018–2021) as well as communications coordinator and lecturer (2022–2023) at the RCC.
Find him on Bluesky at @a-juenger.bsky.social and on Instagram at @environmental_humanist.
Selected Publications:
- with Stephen Milder, Katharina Scharf, Amanda M. Nichols, Friederike Bruehoefener, and Adam Stone. “Petra Kelly: Life and Legacy of a Transnational Green Activist.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions, no. 1 (2024). Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9772.
- “Protestar o ceder: los agricultores alemanes se rebelan” [Protest or give in: German farmers rally]. La Marea, 9 January 2024. https://www.lamarea.com/2024/01/09/protestar-o-ceder-los-agricultores-alemanes-se-rebelan/.
- “La guerra en Ucrania, los Verdes y el legado de Petra Kelly” [The war in Ukraine, the Greens, and Petra Kelly’s legacy]. Revista Contexto y Acción/CTXT, 18 May 2022. https://ctxt.es/es/20220501/Firmas/39694/los-verdes-petra-kelly-guerra-de-ucrania-envio-de-armas-andreas-junger.htm.
- “Für einen Feminismus vom Lande” [For a feminism from the countryside]. Review of Land der Frauen, by María Sánchez. Der Freitag, no. 47 (2021): 18. https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/fuer-einen-feminismus-vom-lande.
- Review of Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape, by Sarah Hamilton. Agricultural History Review 69, no. 1 (June 2021): 165–66.
- “Revealing the ‘Almerian Miracle’: Materiality of the Agrarian Modernization in the Campo de Dalías.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, no. 17 (Spring 2021). https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9300.
- “The Fridays for Future Movement in Spain.” Seeing the Woods. A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center, 8 January 2020. https://seeingthewoods.org/2020/01/08/the-fridays-for-future-movement-in-spain/.
- “Licht am Ende des Plastiktunnels: Die agro-kapitalistische Landwirtschaft um Almería und Huelva” [Light at the end of the plastic tunnel: agro-capitalist agriculture around Almería and Huelva]. Matices: Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, no. 96 (2018): 5–8. https://www.matices-magazin.de/archiv/96/licht-am-ende-des-plastiktunnels/.