Books in Preparation
  • Ed. together with Angelika Epple, Antje Flüchter, and Kirsten Kramer: Contact, Conquest, and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World (Studies in Cultural History), Routledge: New York (forthcoming in 2020).

  • Ed. together with Anne Tittor, Olaf Kaltmeier, Bernhard Leubolt, and Daniel Hawkins: Rethinking the Americas: The Routledge Handbook on Political Economy and Governance in the Americas, vol. II part II, Routledge: New York (forthcoming in 2020).

  • Entangled History and the Environment? Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Caribbean, 1500-1800, Bilingual Press: Tempe (forthcoming in 2020).

Published Books

  • Changes in the Air. Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present, (Environmental History: International Perspectives 15), ed. by: Dolly Jorgensen, Christof Mauch, Kieko Matteson, and Helmuth Trischler, Berghahn Books: New York , Oxford 2018.

  • Sharing the Risk. Fire, Climate and Disaster. Swiss Re, 1864-1906, Carnegie Publishing/Crucible Books: Lancashire 2011.

Journal Articles

  • (together with George Adamson and Matthew Hannaford) “Rethinking the Present: The Role of A Historical Focus in Climate Change Adaptation Research”, in: Global Environmental Change, (January 2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.12.003.

  • "Adapting to Hurricanes. A Historical Perspective on New Orleans from its Foundation to Hurricane Katrina, 1718-2005", in: WIRE's Climate Change, (September 2017), DOI: 10.1002/wcc.488.

  • "From Wood to Stone. The Risk Management of Swiss Re in the Sundsvall Fire 1888", in: Environment and History 17.1 (2011), S. 153-169.

  • "Fire in Swiss Re’s Early History, 1864-1906: Perspectives for an Environmental Business History?", in: EABH Bulletin 1 (2010), S. 40-46.

Book Chapters

  • (together with Virginia García Acosta) „Disasters“, in: Tittor, Anne, Kaltmeier, Olaf, Leubolt, Bernhard, Hawkins, David, Rohland, Eleonora (eds.): Rethinking the Americas: The Routledge Handbook to Political Economy and Governance in the Americas, Vol. II, Part II, New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2020).

  • (together with Olaf Kaltmeier) „Introduction“, in: Tittor, Anne, Kaltmeier, Olaf, Leubolt, Bernhard, Hawkins, David, Rohland, Eleonora (eds.): Rethinking the Americas: The Routledge Handbook to Political Economy and Governance in the Americas, Vol. II, Part II, New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2020).
     
  • „Beschwerde der Bürger von Louisiana: Der 'Louisiana Purchase' 1803 und die lokale Opposition gegen die amerikanische Territorialregierung“, in: Büschges, Christian (ed.): Das Ende des alten Kolonialsystems (Dokumente zur europäischen Expansion, Bd. 8), München: C.H. Beck (forthcoming).
 
  • “Dealing with Hurricanes and Mississippi Floods in New Orleans, 1718-1794. Environmental (non-)Knowledge in a Colonial Context”, in: Zwierlein, Cornel (ed.): The Dark Side of Knowledge. The History of Ingorance, 1400-1800 (Series Intersections), Leiden: Brill 2016, p. 314-332.          
 
  • “Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast: Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the U.S., 1722 to 1900,” in: Rood, Daniel, Manning, Patrick (eds.): Works of Nature: Global Scientific Practice, 1750-1850, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2016, p. 38-53.
 
  • “Hurricanes in New Orleans: Disaster Migration and Adaptation, 1718-1794,” in: Sommer, Bernd (ed.): Climate Change in North America (Series Climate and Culture), Leiden: Brill 2015, p. 137-158.
 
  • “’The Storm’. Hurrikan Katrina, 29. August 2005”, in: Schenk, Gerrit, Juneja, Monica (eds.): Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe. Von Atlantis bis heute, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2014, p. 215-221.
 
  • (together with Maike Böcker, Gitte Cullmann, Ingo Haltermann und Franz Mauelshagen) "Woven Together: Attachment to Place in the Aftermath of Disaster, Perspectives from Four Continents" in: Cave, Mark, Sloan, Stephen (eds.): Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis, Oxford University Press: New York 2014, p. 183-206.
 
  • “Earthquake versus Fire: The Struggle over Insurance in the Aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster”, in: Schenk, Gerrit, Janku, Andrea, Mauelshagen, Franz (eds.): Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics, Routledge: London 2012, p. 174-194.

Blog Posts

  • "Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Adaptation: The Roles of Knowledge and Memory in Past and Present," GHI History of Knowledge Blog, November 14, 2017.
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