Christoph Rosol

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Christoph Rosol, born in 1977 in Königs Wusterhausen, is a cultural and media scientist. His doctoral thesis dealt with a historical epistemology of climate modelling in the coincidence of earth history and human history, better known as the Anthropocene. From 2008 to 2012 he was a Fellow of the ‘Media Histories’ Graduate College at the Bauhaus University of Weimar and of the German Historical Institute (Washington, D. C.). Since 2012 Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and research assistent in the House of the Cultures of the World, initially as part of the Anthropocene Project, then 100 Years of Now.

Publications (a selection): Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol, Bernd Scherer (eds.): Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray, 4 vols., Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2014;
‘Hauling Data. Anthropocene Analogues, Paleoceanography and Missing Paradigm Shifts’, Historical Social Research, 40:2, 2015