Speakers Portraits > Antoine Acker
Antoine Acker Antoine Acker is a specialist in ecological history and is particularly interested in international connections as well as the place of Latin America in the history of the Anthropocene. Doctor from the European University Institute (IUE) in Florence, he taught at the universities of Bielefeld, Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, La Rochelle, Maastricht, Zurich, and was FNS-Eccellenza professor at the Institute of Advanced International Studies and of Development (IHEID, Geneva). He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Turin as well as stays as a visiting researcher at the universities of Bern, Munich (LMU) and Shanghai (SHU). He directs the AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century project (Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza grant), which explores Latin American energy revolutions from a transnational perspective, and co-directs Resilient Forest Cities, a collaborative project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, on the legacy of urban utopias in the Amazon region. He is an affiliated researcher of the Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS, Guadalajara/Bielefeld/Buenos Aires/Quito/San José) and the Rachel Carson Center (RCC, Munich). His publications include Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2017, honorable mention for the Warren Dean Prize for Best Book on the History of Brazil) and A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil's Post- colonial Quest for Oil (1930-1975)” (Past & Present, 249(1)|2020), winner of the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). *** *** |
