Julia Nordblad is Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. She has been a visiting researcher at the EHESS, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, both in Paris. She works on historical aspects of the contemporary ecological crisis, especially its temporal dimensions, and has published in venues such as Critical Inquiry and European Journal of Social Theory.
Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute. Alongside Drew Pendergrass he is the co-author of Half-Earth Socialism (Verso, 2022). He is currently writing a book on neoliberal environmental thought.
Daniela Russ is an Assistant Professor in Global and Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig beginning Fall 2022. Her research focuses on global dynamics of resource use, particularly the history of the energy economy in different material, intellectual, and epistemic contexts. She is currently working on a book entitled Working Nature: Steam, Power, and the Failure of the Global Energy Economy and a project on how Soviet engineers envisioned a socialist energy economy.
Paul Erickson is a historian of science whose work explores connections between the human sciences and natural sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special interest in the history of the environmental sciences, the history of economic thought, and the history of mathematical models and theory development across scientific disciplines.
Robert Leonard is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Duke University and is the author of Von Neumann, Morgenstern and the Creation of Game Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which received the Spengler Prize for best monograph from the History of Economics Society. Currently working on the historical relationship between economics and environmental matters, he is writing an intellectual biography of E. F. Schumacher (1911–77), the author of Small is Beautiful (1973). Leonard's recent publications include ‘E. F. Schumacher and the Creation of “Buddhist Economics”, 1950–1973’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2019). He teaches the history and philosophy of economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Benjamin Huf is E.G. Whitlam Fellow at Western Sydney University and an adjunct at the University of Sydney. He has held research positions at the State Library of New South Wales and the Laurate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney.
Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute and Principal Investigator at the European Research Council's ECOINT project, studying twentieth century international economic thinking. Her latest book is The Invention of International Order (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Sabine Selchow is Senior Research Fellow at the European Research Council's ECOINT project at the European University Institute and has previously held research positions at the University of Sydney and the London School of Economics. She is the author of Negotiations of the ‘New World’: The Omnipresence of ‘Global’ as a Political Phenomenon (transcript Verlag, 2017).
Thomas Turnbull is a geographer and historian interested in the relationship between thermodynamics and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the future. He is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Stephen Milder is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen and research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. With the support of the German Research Foundation, he is currently writing a history of climate politics and German reunification. He is the author of Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Christophe Cassen is CNRS researcher at CIRED (Centre for International Research on Environment and Development) and project manager within the IMACLIM modelling programme. He has extensive experience in EUFP7 and H2020 research projects and actively contributes to networks at the interface between science and policymaking (e.g. the LCS-RNet Low Carbon Society Research Network). His research focuses on the history of the international climate negotiations at the interface between political economy and institutionalism. He also analyses the co-evolutions between climate policies and environment–economy–energy modelling at the international level within the context of international climate negotiations and in the building of national climate policies.
Béatrice Cointe is a researcher at the Centre for Sociology of Innovation (Mines Paris – PSL, CNRS). She has done a PhD on the emergence of French photovoltaic markets and policies at CIRED and worked as a post-doc at Aix-Marseille University and the University of Oslo. Her work explores the intersections between knowledge production, environmental concerns and the economy. She is currently investigating the history and making of climate and energy scenarios, especially by Integrated Assessment Models, and how their use of economics frames the climate challenge.
Kristoffer Ekberg is a Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology and works on the political history of environment and climate change, corporate anti-environmentalism, and social movements. He is one of the authors of the forthcoming book Climate Obstruction – How Denial, Delay and Inaction Are Heating the Planet (Routledge).
Victor Pressfeldt is a PhD Candidate in History at Lund University. His thesis focuses on how neoliberal intellectuals (with a special focus on economist Assar Lindbeck) sought to re-structure the Swedish state from the 1970s onwards. His research interests include neoliberalism, modern political history, and theories on the logics of governing.
Adrian Grama researches European labour law at the Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Sudosteuropaforschung in Regensburg.
