Bernhard Gissibl is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. Before coming to Mainz, he taught at LMU Munich, Jacobs University, and the University of Mannheim, where he earned his PhD in 2009. His research areas are the history of nature and wildlife conservation in a transnational and global perspective, and the environmental history of German colonialism. He investigates how concepts and ideas of conservation traveled across borders to become implemented in differing social, political, and ecological contexts. His book, The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa, analyzes the origins and political ecology of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation complex as it emerged in the decades of German colonial rule, prior to the First World War. At the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, he was preparing this book for publication.