Dr. Daniel Rothenburg

2021: Walter-Witzenmann-Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

For the disseration: Too Much Water. Irrigation, Salinity, and Communities in the Murray-Darling-Basin, Australia. An Enviromental History

2021: Dissertation Prize of the University of Tübingen

For the dissertation: Too Much Water. Irrigation, Salinity, and Communities in the Murray-Darling-Basin, Australia. An Enviromental History

2016: Academic Award of the German Association for Australian Studies

For the thesis: Australischer High Modernism. Merkmale des Hydro-Engineering-Diskurses anhand des Hume-Staudamms

• Since 2021: Review editor for H-Soz-Kult
• Since 2016: Member of the Executive Committee of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network

• Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945–2020. (Publisher's Website)

• Too Much Water: How Salinisation Transformed Australia’s ‘Food Bowl,’ 1945-2017; in: International Review of Environmental History 7 (2/2021) 145–168.
• “The Majesty of Concrete“ Hume Dam and Australian Modernity; in: Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal 31 (2017) 101–113.

• Reformatting a socionatural space. The Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia; in: Dirk van Laak, Marian Burchardt (Ed.): Making Space Through Infrastructures (will be published in 2023).
• (With Timm Schönfelder) „Think globally, act locally? Ökologische Bedrohungen in Australien und Russland“; in: Ewald Frie, Mischa Meier, Renate Dürr, et al (Hrsg.): Krisen anders denken. Wie Menschen mit Bedrohungen umgegangen sind und was wir daraus lernen können (to be published in 2023).
• Die „Höhere Maschinenbauschule Eßlingen“ im Dritten Reich. Schritte der Gleichschaltung zur Integration in den NS-Staat; in: Ewald Frie (Ed.), Die Geschichte der Hochschule Esslingen. Esslingen am Neckar 2014, 154–169.

• Review: Frank Jacob: Gallipoli 1915/16. Britanniens bitterste Niederlage; in: Historische Zeitschrift 313 (3/2021) 827-828.
• Conference report: Nach dem Konstruktivismus? Aktuelle Strategien der Kontextualisierung in der Neuen Ideengeschichte, 01.10.2014–02.10.2014 Tübingen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.01.2015.

• Interview: Staudammbau in Australien – Meisterleistung der Moderne oder Zerstörung der Umwelt?; in: Geschichtskeller (October 2022) (Online-Access).
• Krise, Hoffnung und Transformation. Mensch und Umwelt in Australien; in: Reuchlins Tageblatt Nr. 5 der Reuchlin-Gesellschaft Pforzheim (April 2022) (Online-Access).
• Beitrag: Ausgezeichnet – Gestiftete Wissenschaftspreise der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (30.08.2021) (Online-Access).
• Beitrag: Benedikt Matt, Die wüste blüht, dank Bewässerungstechnik!; in: Zwischenbetrachtung. Ein Projekt von Masterstudierenden der Universität Tübingen (07.03.2020) (Online-Access).
• Interview: Teilprojekt E05 – Bodenversalzung in Australien, SFB 923 Tübingen (09.08.2017) (Online-Access).

• Research Colloquium Modern History, Winter term 2021/22, University of Tübingen

• The Global Environmental Movement, Winter term 2021/22, University of Tübingen
• “For we are young and free?“ The old, new history of Australia, Winter term 2021/22, University of Tübingen
• Introduction to Australian History, with accompanying class: Approaches and controversies in Australian history, Winter term 2020/21, University of Tübingen
• “The Specter of the Proletariat.” The European Workers Movement, 1830-1919, Summer term 2021, University of Tübingen

• Perspectives on the 19. Century (two courses), Winter term 2021/22, University of Tübingen
• The Specter of Communism.“ Socialist and Communist Thought in Europe, Summer term 2021, University of Tübingen
• Approaches and controversies in Australian history, Winter term 2020/21, University of Tübingen
• “Land of Droughts and Flooding Rains.” 60.000 Years of Humans and Environment in Australia , Summer term 2020, University of Tübingen
• Practical Writing for Advanced Students, Winter term 2019/20, University of Tübingen
• An Introduction to Environmental History , Summer term 2017/18, University of Tübingen (with Timm Schönfelder)