Eleonora Rohland

Eleonora Rohland is professor of intertwined history in the Americas (Modern Times) and director of the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Rohland trained as an environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and did her post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Essen (KWI) from 2008 to 2014. Her research was supported by the Foundation for Swiss Studies, and by the German Historical Institutes in Washington and Paris. Rohland is the author of two books, Sharing the Risk: Fire, Climate and Disaster. Swiss Re 1864-1906 [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 (New York: 2019), and is co-author of an edited volume with Olaf Kaltmeier, Anne Tittor and Daniel Hawkins: The Routledge Handbook on the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas (New York: 2020). His current research focuses on socio-environmental transformations in the Caribbean (Hispaniola and Jamaica) between 1492 and 1804.