Damiana Salm

 Raum 4407, KG IV

+49 761 203 3444

damiana.salm@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de

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Short bio

Damiana Salm is a Ph.D. student in contemporary history at the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. Her research focuses on the pertinent issue of 'fuel poverty' from a historical perspective, specifically exploring the interconnections between poverty, energy consumption, and welfare within Western Europe at the end of the “Golden Age” (Eric Hobsbawm) of post-war economic boom. She is currently working as a research assistant at the Chair of Economic, Social and Environmental History.  She holds a B.A. in German Language and Literature and History from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and an M.A. in Comparative History of the Modern Era from the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany.

Research interests

-          Everyday and social history

-          Energy history

-          Environmental history

-          20th-century European history

-          History of energy consumption

-          History of poverty and welfare policy

Dissertation

Fuel Poverty and the Crisis of Welfare in Western Europe, 1970s–1980s (work title)

Publications

Salm, Damiana, Living in the “All-Electric Alcatraz”. Fuel Poverty in 1970s British Social Housing, in: Journal of Energy History/Revue d’histoire de l’énergie, N° 11, 2024, https://doi.org/energyhistory.eu/en/node/394 (accessed 10/10/2024).