Since October 2019 Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (Early Modern Period) at Bielefeld University
Since Mai 2019 Director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS)
Juni 2018 Midterm evaluation of the assistant professorship Entangled History in the Americas
August 2017
Nominated for Bielefeld University's Karl Peter Grotemeyer-Award for excellence in teaching
September 11-27, 2016
Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, UK
Nov 18, 2015
Dissertation Award “Cultural Studies” (2nd prize) granted by the Förderverein of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)), Germany
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
Assistant Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (Early Modern Period) at Bielefeld University
2014-2015
Poject Coordinator for Climate & Energy Policy at the Foundation for Global Sustainability (FFGS), Zürich, Switzerland
2014
Ph.D. University of Bochum in early modern environmental history; Thesis: “Hurricanes in New Orleans, 1718-1965: A History of Adaptation.” Supervisor: PD. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein, University of Bochum, Germany"
2013-2014
Member of the scientific Advisory Board of the Exhibition “Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe – Atlantis bis heute“ [Humans. Nature. Disaster – Atlantis to Present] (September 7, 2014 to January 25, 2015), in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg, the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums of Heidelberg.
May 2013-Dec 2013
Project Coordinator (ad interim) of the Graduate Research Group “Democracy and Climate Change” ("Herausforderung der Demokratie durch den Klimawandel") at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)) und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Direktors (Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie), Essen, Germany
2012
Ph.D. fellowship at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHIP), France (6 Weeks)
2010
Ph.D. fellowship at the German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington D.C., USA (4 Months)
Young Researchers’ Award, granted by the Research Group for Critical Business History (AKKU), for the MA thesis “The Swiss Re Fire Branch 1864-1906. Risk – Fire – Climate.”
"Best Young Scholar Paper": "Earthquake vs. Fire: The Struggle over Insurance in the Aftermath of the San Francisco Disaster" verliehen auf dem Workshop for New Scholars in Banking and Financial History, European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH), Rüschlikon
2009/2010
Visiting scholar at the Department for Geography and Anthropology of Louisiana State University (Prof. Dr. Craig Colten), USA
2008-2012
Doctoral fellow in the interdisciplinary research program Climate and Culture (KlimaKultur), research group “Memories of Disasters” ("Katastrophenerinnerung"), Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany, funded by Mercator Foundation
2009
M.A. (University of Bern) in economic and environmental history; Thesis: “The Swiss Re Fire Branch 1864-1906: Risk – Fire – Climate;” MA Supervisor: Prof. Em. Dr. Christian Pfister, University of Bern, Switzerland
2007-2014
Fellow and grantee of the Swiss National Academic Foundation (Schweizerische Studienstiftung).
2001-2009
Studies in 19th and 20th century European economic, social and environmental history, in medieval history, and in English linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland
Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (Early Modern Period)
Director Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS)
Faculty for History, Philosophy and Theology
Department for Ibero-American History
Center for InterAmerican Studies
Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Office: X B2-212
E-Mail: eleonora.rohland@uni-bielefeld.de
Phone: +49 521 106-3251
Twitter: @ejrohland
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