Curriculum Vitae Alexis Rider

Ausbildung und Laufbahn

• 2017–2022 Ph.D. in Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -soziologie, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
• 2014–2017 M.A. in Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -soziologie, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
• 2012–2014 M.A. in Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research, New York (USA)
• 2003–2007 B.A. Hons in englischer Literatur, Victoria University Wellington (Neuseeland)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Geschichte der Wissenschaft und der Umwelt
• Anthropozän
• Kryosphäre und die Politik des Eises
• Umwelt-Humanwissenschaften
• Tiefe, nicht-menschliche Zeit
• Abfall- und Entsorgungsforschung und wirtschaftliche Zukunft
• Weltgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

• 2023–2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, ‘Making Climate History,’ Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (UK)
• 2022–2023 Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (UK) 

Netzwerke und Aktivitäten

• Mitglied der British Society for the History of Science
• Mitglied der European Society for Environmental History
• Co-Leiterin der Anthropocene (Climate Histories) Series (University of Cambridge)

Ausgewählte Publikationen

• 2025                “(Re)making Marble Island: Romanticising Capital and Collapse in an Early Twentieth-Century Arctic Quarry” under R&R with Environment and History.

• 2024                “Glitch Geology: Ice Sheets and the Unconformities of Deep Time,” Social Anthropology special issue: “Icy Liveliness in the Anthropocene,” Vol.1 Iss. 32.

• 2023                SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism special issue, “Breaking Earth” (co-editor with Paul Harris, Loyola Marymount University), Vol. 52, no. 3, 2023.

• 2023                Review Essay: “Flows of History,” Past and Present (co-author with Tamara Fernando and Felice Phsyioc).

• 2023                “An Agent of Most Dire Calamities: Ice, Waste, and Frozen Futures,” in New Earth Histories ed. Alison Bashford, Adam Bobbette, Emily Kern, University of Chicago Press, 2023.

• 2022                “Ice,” in An Anthropogenic Table of Elements ed. Thao Pan, Courtney Addison, and Timothy Neale. 2022. University of Toronto Press.

• 2020                “Keeping Time with Melting Rock,” Social Science Research Council Items ‘Ways of Water’ online series (December 2020) items.ssrc.org/category/ways-of-water/

• 2019                “Ice,” in ‘Theorizing the Contemporary’ Editor’s Forum, Cultural Anthropology, culanth.org/fieldsights/ice

• 2019                “Consuming the Anthropocene,” Journal for the History of Ideas jhiblog.org/2019/07/03/consuming-the-anthropocene-2/

• 2018                “Art in Arctic Fields,” Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/field-notes/art-arctic-fields-part-1

• 2018                “Science and Ice: The Changing Sublime in the Frozen North,” Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities online platform ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/field-notes/science-and-ice-changing-sublime-frozen-north