Dominik Collet

Dominik Collet (* 1972 ) is a German historian specializing in environmental history.

Life

From 1993 to 2000 he studied history and art history in Göttingen , Madrid and Norwich . From 2001 to 2004 he was a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for History and a fellow at the Warburg Institute . In 2005 he received a Herzog Ernst scholarship at the Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt for cultural studies. After completing his doctorate in 2006 at the University of Hamburg , he worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Göttingen from 2006 to 2010 . From 2010 to 2012 he was coordinator / postdoc at the DFG graduate college for interdisciplinary environmental history. Natural environment and social action in Central Europe . From 2010 to 2014 he was a fellow at the Junge ZiF, Center for Interdisciplinary Research . Since 2013 he has been a junior research group leader at the Heidelberg Center for the Environment at Heidelberg University . After completing his habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History in Heidelberg in 2018, he will be Professor of Environmental History at the University of Oslo from October 2018 .

His areas of expertise are early modern environmental history, the global history of things, the history of museums and the cultural history of knowledge.

Fonts (selection)

• The world in the room. Encounters with outside Europe in art chambers of the early modern period . Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-35888-1 .
• with Thore Lassen and Ansgar Schanbacher (eds.): Acting in hunger crises. new perspectives on social and climatic vulnerability . Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-152-8 .
• with Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen (Ed.): Scenes of environmental history in Schleswig-Holstein . Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86395-041-5 .
• The double catastrophe. Climate and culture in the European hunger crisis 1770–1772 . Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-525-35592-0 .

Web links

• hf.uio.no
• hce.uni-heidelberg.de
• uio.academia.edu