Dr. Thomas Zeller

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University of Maryland College Park
College of Arts and Humanities
History
Associate Professor

Mailing Address

Department of History
University of Maryland College Park
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, Maryland 20742
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (301) 405-6471
Fax: (301) 314-9399
tzeller@umd.edu

Qualifications

Dr.Phil., University of Munich, Modern History, 1999.

Expertise and Research Interests

History of Technology
Environmental History


Future Research

"Consuming Landscapes": Book project currently under progress. Will compare the history of the driving experience by examining the landscaping of parkways in the United States and Alpine pleasure roads in Germany, 1930 to 1990.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Environmental Sciences, History, History of Science and Technology, Modern History.

Additional Terms:

Environmental History, History of Technology.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

German: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Functional, None, Basic)

Memberships

American Society for Environmental History
European Society for Environmental History
German Studies Association
Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte
International Committee for the History of Technology
Society for the History of Technology

Honors and Awards

2003-2006, Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
1998-1999, International Scholar, Society for the History of Technology

Previous Positions

2001-2002, Assistant Professor, Oakland University, History
2000-2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science
1999-1999, Research Associate, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science
1999-2000, Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of History, Technology, and Society

Funding Received

  • German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.: Research Fellowship, Sep 1, 2002 to Aug 31, 2003.
  • Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Essen (Germany): Dissertation Research Fellowship, Sep 1, 1996 to Feb 28, 1999.
  • Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center: Postdoctoral Fellowship, , 2005 to 2007.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Research Grant for Full-Time Teaching Release, $85,000, 2004 to 2005.
  • Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Essen (Germany): Publication Grant, to 2001.

Publications

  • Thomas Zeller, Christof Mauch (2008) Rivers of History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, In Press
  • Thomas Zeller (2007) Thomas Zeller on August Sander's Rhine Landscapes, Environmental History, 12 (2), 401-405
  • Thomas Zeller (2007) Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970, Oxford/New York, Berghahn Books
  • Thomas Zeller, Christof Mauch (2007) The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscape in the United States and Europe, Athens, Ohio University Press, In Press
  • Thomas Zeller (2007) 'National Character' and International Styles: Iconic Roads in Germany and the United States, 1930-1970, Road History. Planning, Building and Use, Neuchâtel, Editions Alphil (bookchapter)
  • Thomas Zeller, Thomas Lekan (2005) Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press
  • Thomas Zeller, Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Mark Cioc (2005) How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press
  • Thomas Zeller (2005) Molding the Landscape of Nazi Environmentalism: Alwin Seifert and the Third Reich, How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 147-170 pages (bookchapter)
  • Thomas Zeller, Consuming Landscapes. The View from the Road in Germany and the United States, 1910-1995, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C, 117-126, Spring 2003
  • Paul Josephson/Thomas Zeller, The Transformation of Nature under Hitler and Stalin, Mark Walker (ed.), Science and Ideology. A Comparative History (London/New York: Routledge), 124-155, 2003
  • Thomas Zeller, Straße, Bahn, Panorama. Verkehrswege und Landschaftsveränderung in Deutschland 1930 bis 1990, (Frankfurt/New York: Campus), 2002
  • Thomas Zeller, 'The Landscape's Crown': Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934-1941, David Nye (ed.), Technologies of Landscape: Reaping to Recycling (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press), 218-238, 1999
  • Thomas Zeller, Landschaft als Gefühl und Autobahn als Formel. Der Autobahnbau in der frühen Bundesrepublik als Abgrenzungsversuch gegen die 'Straßen Adolf Hitlers', WerkstattGeschichte, 7(21), 29-41, 1998
  • Thomas Zeller, Landschaften des Verkehrs. Autobahnen im Nationalsozialismus und Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecken für die Bahn in der Bundesrepublik, Technikgeschichte, 64, 323-340, 1997

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