Torma is a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She studied history and theater studies in Bochum and Munich and received her doctorate from LMU Munich with a thesis on expeditions to Asia (“Turkestan-Expeditionen. Zur Kulturgeschichte deutscher Forschungsreisen nach Mittelasien, 1890–1930”). She has published essays on the history of mountaineering and on Germany’s colonial culture, as well as a monograph on animal protection issues in Africa. Her research interests include the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a John F. Kennedy Memorial fellow during the academic year 2012–2013, Franziska will be working on a project entitled “Germany’s Seven Seas: Marine Biology and Ecological Imperialism during the Long Twentieth Century.”
This information was last updated for the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, September 2017.
Affiliations
Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximillians Universität München
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2012-2013, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Visiting Scholar 2012-2013, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University