Sabine Höhler

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Sabine Höhler, Dipl. Phys., Dr. phil., studied physics at Karlsruhe University and modern history and history of science at Braunschweig Technical University. In 1999 she completed her dissertation on the topic Luftfahrtforschung und Luftfahrtmythos. Wissenschaftliche Ballonfahrt in Deutschland, 1880-1910 (Research and Mythology in Aviation: Scientific Ballooning in Germany, 1880-1910) (published Frankfurt/New York, Campus 2001). She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (1999-2002) and studied the oceanographical exploration of the deep sea in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 2002 to 2007 she worked at Hamburg University on the economization of nature in the discourse on sustainable development with the interdisciplinary research project team NEDS "Nachhaltige Entwicklung zwischen Durchsatz und Symbolik" ("Sustainable Development between Throughput and Symbolism") in the program of Socio-ecological Research funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In 2007/2008 she held the Environmental History Fellowship at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC. From July to December 2009 she was Scholar in Residence at the German Museum Munich and from February to July 2009 research fellow at the Institute of History at ETH Zurich. From October 2009 to February 2010 she was a research associate at the interdisciplinary DFG Graduate School "Topology of Technology" at Darmstadt University of Technology. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at International University Bremen (IUB) and Darmstadt University of Technology.

In January 2010 she habilitated at Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Social and Historical Sciences, and was awarded the venia legendi in history of science, history of technology, and environmental history. Her habilitation thesis titled "Spaceship Earth: Envisioning Human Habitats in the Environmental Age" explores technoscientific constructions of the environment as a closed living space during the Environmental Era between 1960 and 1990. A recent project on the topic of "life support" addresses infrastructures of survival.

Her research interests cover the cultural history of science and technology in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of space, mapping, and globalisation, environmental studies, and feminist science and technology studies. On the historical exploration of globalisation and space in the 20th century she co-edited a volume with the title Welt-Räume. Geschichte, Geographie und Globalisierung seit 1900 (World-Spaces: History, Geography, and Globalization since 1900) (published Frankfurt/New York, Campus 2005).