”Sonja Dümpelmann is a historian of landscapes and the built environment. She is professor and chair of Environmental Humanities at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

Her research and writing focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban environments, especially in Europe and the United States. Of special importance to her work are the relationships between the inside and the outside, i.e. the relationships between architecture and landscape, center and periphery, theory and practice; those in power and those subjected to that power; intent and contingency; and the relationships between social and political processes and landscape transformation.”