• environmental history of East Central Europe and the United States
• urban history
• history of islands
• food history

• Education

• 2019 Dr. phil. in American Cultural History and East European History at LMU Munich
• 2013–2019 member of the doctoral program Environment and Society at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
• 2012 MA in American Cultural History, Political Science, and English Literature, LMU Munich
• 2010 BA in English Language and Literature and International Relations, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

• Employment history

• since 2023 researcher at the Collegium Carolinum, editor of the Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder
• 2020–2023 postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-AHRC project “Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe’s National Parks” at the Rachel Carson Center
• 2011–2020 member of the editing team of the Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder at the Collegium Carolinum

• May–October 2023 Postdoc Fellowship, Institut für europäische Geschichte (Institute for European History, IEG) Mainz
• October 2022 Josef Dobrovský Fellowship, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• August 2019 Travel grant, German section of the Deutsch-tschechische und deutsch-slowakische Historikerkommission (German-Czech and German-Slovak Historical Commission)
• June–July 2017 Scholarship of the graduate program ProAmHist, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich
• June 2016 Junior Researcher Fellowship, Herder-Institut Marburg

• since 2023 coordinator of the European Conservation Humanities Network
• since 2017 reviews editor and since 2019 co-editor of the journal WerkstattGeschichte
• European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
• Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung
• Werkstatt für die Umweltgeschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei

Monograph

• Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781625345974.

Edited volume

• (with Milica Prokić) Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2024. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12638983.

Articles and book chapters

• (with Graham Huggan) “Three Very Short Histories of the Border: Regimes of In/visibility in Bavarian Forest and Šumava National Parks”. Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities [forthcoming in 2024].
• “The Birth of the Scientific Brewer: International Networks and Knowledge Transfer in Central European Beer Brewing, 1794–1895.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 65, 1 (2024): 209-235. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2024-0011.
•  “The Urban Island: Connection and Remoteness in the History of Gallops Island in Boston Harbor.” In Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková, 215-236. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2024. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12638983.13.
• (with Katie Ritson, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, George Holmes, Graham Huggan, and Eveline R. de Smalen) “Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies.” Environmental Humanities 16, 1 (2024): 183-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943153.
• „Grenzenlos wild? Naturschutz und Grenze im Bayerischen Wald und Šumava“. Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa, 31 March 2023, www.copernico.eu/de/themenbeitraege/grenzenlos-wild-naturschutz-und-grenze-im-bayerischen-wald-und-sumava.
• (with Astrid M. Eckert) “Transcending the Cold War: The European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain.” In Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook, edited by Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse, 129-153. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669213-007.
• (with George Holmes, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Graham Huggan, Katie Ritson, and Eveline R. de Smalen ) “Mainstreaming the Humanities in Conservation.” Conservation Biology 36, 3 (2022): 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13824.
• “‘Minutes Away, Worlds Apart’: The Changing Imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands.” In Special Section “Representing Islands – Producing Islandness: Rethinking Identities, Mobilities, and Relations in Island Research,” edited by Sarah Nimführ and Greca N. Meloni, Island Studies Journal 16, 2 (2021): 80-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.169.
• (with Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, and Lotte Thaa) „Corona im Museum“. WerkstattGeschichte 84 (2021): 141-150. werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WG84_140-150_Corona-im-Museum.pdf.
• „Die Teilung des Eisernen Vorhangs. Grenzüberschreitender Naturschutz im Bayerischen Wald und Šumava.“ In Urwald der Bayern. Geschichte, Politik und Natur im Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, edited by Marco Heurich and Christof Mauch, 84-96. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666360954.84.
• “The Hub’s Archipelago: The Connected Histories of Boston and Its Harbor Islands.” Arcadia. Explorations in Environmental History (Spring 2020), Nr. 7, doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8980.

Encyclopaedias

• (with Robert Luft and Veronika Siska) Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder. Edited by Miroslav Kunštát, Ralph Melville and Thomas Winkelbauer. Vol. IV, issues 5–7. München: Collegium Carolinum, 2015, 2016 and 2018.

Book reviews and conference reports

Bohemia, Environment and History, H-Soz-Kult, Soudobé dějiny, WerkstattGeschichte.