Brendan Karch is an assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2010. As a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, his earlier work focused on nationalism in the German-Polish borderlands. His first book examined the fraught efforts of nationalist activists to earn the long-term loyalties of a bilingual, Catholic borderland population in Upper Silesia. His research on Upper Silesia analyzed the use of nature metaphors in Nazi antisemitism, as Jews protected by a League of Nations treaty were accused of living in a "nature preserve." His current project examines how railroads changed Central European landscapes, ecologies, and attitudes towards nature. At LSU he has taught a proseminar on energy sources and the environment in modern European history.

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