AFFILIATED RESEARCHER 2022 FRANK UEKÖTTER
Frank Uekötter studied history, political science and the social sciences at the universities of Freiburg and Bielefeld in Germany, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He earned, or at any rate was awarded, a PhD from Bielefeld University in 2001, where he continued to work for several years.
He moved to Munich in 2006, helped by a generous Dilthey grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. He taught at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University and became one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a Käte Hamburger Centre run in collaboration by Munich University and the Deutsches Museum. He joined the University of Birmingham in September 2013. In 2021, he also became the grateful recipient of an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for his project on the global history of monoculture.