Author Biography
Carolin Firouzeh Roeder is a PhD student at the Department of History at Harvard University. Her dissertation project is a transnational history of mountaineering which traces networks between mountaineers of western and eastern Europe from 1900 to the end of the Cold War. She holds a BA in Slavic Languages from the University of Regensburg and an MA in East European Studies and Research from the University of Bologna. Focusing on central and eastern Europe, her research interests include the history of exploration and empire, environmental history, and alpine history.