Prof. Dr. Sonja Dümpelmann
Sonja Dümpelmann is Professor and Chair of Environmental Humanities at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich where she also co-directs the Rachel Carson Center. She was previously Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Dümpelmann is a historian of urban landscapes and environments. Her most recent award-winning books are the Landscapes for Sport: Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health (ed., Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022), and Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin (Yale University Press, 2019). During her time teaching in the U.S., she also served as Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C. and as President of the Landscape History Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.