Person Eleonora Rohland

Eleonora Rohland is professor for Entangled History in the Americas and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests are long-term human-environment transformations, how human societies have adapted to climatic extreme events in the past and researching the history of the Proto-Anthropocene. Rohland is the author of two books, SHARING THE RISK. FIRE, CLIMATE AND DISASTER. SWISS RE 1864-1906 (Lancaster: 2011) and CHANGES IN THE AIR: HURRICANES IN NEW ORLEANS, 1718 TO THE PRESENT (SERIES ENVIRONMENTS IN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Berghahn Books: 2019). Her third book project is tentatively entitled ENCOUNTERING THE TROPICS AND TRANSFORMING UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1494 TO 1804.