Moritz von Brescius

Biography

Moritz von Brescius is a senior lecturer in modern history at University of Bern. His research areas include the global history of science and empire, the environmental and economic history of plantation economies, and the acclimatization of cash crops as part of the global expansion of commodity frontiers.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), he will pursue his new project on the ‘synthetic age’ and shifting resource regimes in the 19th and 20th centuries from a transatlantic perspective.

This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Senior Lecturer and Research Group Leader, University of Bern
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University