Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt
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Melanie Arndt joined Albert Ludwig University Freiburg as chair for economic, social and environmental history in April 2020. After studying political science, modern history and East European studies in Potsdam, Berlin and London, she gained her PhD in history from Humboldt University in 2008 with a study on healthcare in divided Berlin before the building of the Berlin Wall, which was published by Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht in 2009. Arndt has led several international research projects, such as Politics and Society after Chernobyl at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) and Contemporary Environmental History of the Soviet Union (EcoGlobReg) at the Leibniz Institute for East and South East European History (IOS) Regensburg (together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa, Tübingen, and Dr. Marc Elie, CNRS, Paris). Arndt was a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (2012) and the Stanford Humanities Center (2013/14). In 2018 she earned her habilitation with a manuscript on the transnational social consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, which was published with Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht in 2020. In the book, she analyzes the transnational networks that were created around the so-called Chernobyl children, who became both witnesses and representatives of a vanishing political system, the dissolution of the bipolar world order, and life in the Anthropocene. The book won the Geisteswissenschaften International (Humanities International) award and a translated version will appear with Cambridge University Press. Melanie Arndt is one of the founding members of the Freiburg Environmental Humanities Network, one of the speakers of the Profile Field Environment and Sustainability, member of the steering group of the Freiburg Graduate School Humanities as well as member of the Centre for Security and Scociety. She was managing editor of the Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas and is board member of Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History and Zeitgeschichte Online.
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