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1. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte

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Meine Sprechstunden finden im Sommersemester 2025 freitags von 11:00 bis 12:40 Uhr sowie nach Vereinbarung statt. Bitte buchen Sie vorzugsweise online einen Termin.

In the summer semester 2025 my office hours are on Fridays from 11:00 to 12:40 and by appointment. Please book an appointment preferably online.

En el semestre de verano 2025 mis horas de oficina tienen lugar los viernes de 11:00 a las 12:40 y con cita previa. Por favor, reserve una cita preferiblemente en línea.

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2. Center for InterAmerican Studies

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eleonora.rohland@uni-bielefeld.de  
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+49 521 106-3251  
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3. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte / Professur

4. SFB 1288 "Practices of comparing. Ordering and changing the world" / SFB 1288 Projektbereich F: Standardisieren und Globalisieren: Expansive Vergleichspraktiken / SFB 1288 Teilprojekt F01[A03] (Welt-)Ordnungen und Zukunftsentwürfe. Rassistische Vergleichspraktiken in der Karibik (1791 – 1912).

Projektleiterin im Teilprojekt F01: (Welt-)Ordnungen und Zukunftsentwürfe. Rassistische Vergleichspraktiken in der Karibik (179-1912).

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eleonora.rohland@uni-bielefeld.de  
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5. BiSEd-Mitglieder / BiSEd-Mitglieder der Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie

6. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Geschichte der Vormoderne / Mitglieder

7. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Global History, History of Entanglements / Mitglieder

8. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Gesellschaft - Wissen - Umwelt / Mitglieder

9. CALAS

10. Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS)

11. Center for Interdisciplinary Research / ZiF Boards / Academic Board of Directors

Member of the Board of Directors of ZiF, Director

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12. Institute for Studies of Science

13. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Kommissionen / PhD Commission

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Curriculum Vitae

Eleonora Rohland has been Professor for entangled history of the Americas in the Pre-Modern Era at Bielefeld University since October 2019. From October 2015 to October 2019, she held a junior professorship with the same title. Rohland studied Economic, Social and Environmental History and English Linguistics at the University of Bern from 2001 to 2009 and completed her doctorate/Phd studies at Ruhr University Bochum in 2014. Her research combines environmental and climate history with inter-American colonial and entangled history. She was a Co-PI in the Bielefeld CRC 1288 "Practices of Comparison: Ordering and Changing the World" (2017-2024) and co-coordinator of the research group "The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America" at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Guadalajara (Mexico). She was also part of the interdisciplinary cooperation group "Volcanoes, Climate and History" (VCH) at the Bielefeld Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) (2021-2024).

Rohland is a member of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS), which she headed as director from 2019 to 2021. She has been a member of the University Council of Bielefeld University since June 2023 and she has been a member of the directorate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) since October 2023. Since October 2024, she is the Center's Deputy Director in shared leadership together with Prof. Marie Kaiser.

Rohland is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal "Climates and Cultures in History".

Current research topics

Entangled history (Spanish and French colonial history) of the Americas (focus on North America and the Caribbean), 16th to 19th century, environmental and climate history, historical disaster research, history of knowledge and science, economic history, insurance history.

Memberships and Functions

  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of Bielefeld University from October 2023
  • Member of the University Council of Bielefeld University since June 2023.
  • Member of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS), Bielefeld
  • Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (ISOS), Bielefeld
  • Member of the Institute for World Society Studies, Bielefeld
  • Alumna of the Swiss Study Foundation

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