
We are 15 scientists from Europe and North America who research on ecological issues in Russian and Soviet history from the 18th to the 21st century. We meet at conferences and workshops and make our collected knowledge accessible to a wide audience in publications.

Clemens Günther
Network Coordinator /
Research Member and Professor, Cultur Department of the Eastern-Europe Institute, FU Berlin
Philipp Kohl
Network Coordinator/
Research Associate for Slavic Literature (Chair of Prof. Dr. Riccardo Nicolosi)


Elena Fratto
Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies Role, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
Andy Bruno
Environmental Historian and Associate Professor and Director, Department of History, Northern Illinois University


Mieka Erley
Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate Univerity, California
Susanne Frank
Head of Faculty “Department of East Slavic Literure and Culture”, Institute of Slavic Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin


Julia Herzberg
Professor for the history of East Central Europe/Russia in the pre-modern era, department of History and culture, LMU Munich
Julia Obertreis
Professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, focusing on the history of Eastern Europe, FAU Erlangen


Erik Martin
Academic Associate at Faculty of Humanities (cultural studies), Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
Coleen McQuillen
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California


Tatjana Petzer
Visiting Professor for Slavic Cultural Studies, Marthin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg
Jonathan Oldfield
Professor in Russian Environmental Studies/ Head of the Department for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham


Timm Schönfelder
Research associate at Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO
Mika Perkiömäki
Doctoral Researcher and PhD Student at Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Studies at UTA, Tampere University


Georgy S. Levit
Scientific Associate of Didactics of Biology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
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Activities
We collect the multiple activities within the network that are taking place over the next three years here. You are interested in the activities within the interdiscplinary field of Ecospheres, f.e. in historiography, literary, geography, ecology and cultural…