Dr. Pavla Šimková

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Research interests

• Environmental history of East Central Europe and North America
• Nature conservation history
• Urban history

Kurzbiografie

• Summer semester 2025: researcher (substitute, part-time) at the Chair of History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, LMU Munich
• Since 2023: researcher and head of the editorial team of the Biographical Dictionary of the History of the Czech Lands at the Collegium Carolinum, Research Institute for the History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Munich
• 2020–2023 Project assistant in the DFG-AHRC project ‘Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe's National Parks’, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
• 2019 Dr. phil. in American Cultural History and Eastern European History at LMU Munich
• 2006–2012 Studied American Cultural History, Political Science, English Literature and International Relations at LMU Munich and Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Publications

Monography

• Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.
• Honor Book, 2022 Historic New England Book Prize, Historic New England

Editorships

• (with Milica Prokić) Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2024.

Articles and book chapters

• (with Graham Huggan) “Three Very Short Histories of the Border: Regimes of In/Visibility in the Bavarian Forest and Šumava.” Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities 11,1 (2024): 5-23.
• “The Birth of the Scientific Brewer: International Networks and Knowledge Transfer in Central European Beer Brewing, 1794–1895.” Jahrbücher für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 65,1 (2024): 209-235.
• “The Urban Island: Connection and Remoteness in the History of Gallops Island in Boston Harbor.” In Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, hrsg. von Milica Prokić und Pavla Šimková, 215-236. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2024.
• (with Katie Ritson, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, George Holmes, Graham Huggan und Eveline R. de Smalen) “Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies.” Environmental Humanities 16,1 (2024): 183-200.
• „Grenzenlos wild? Naturschutz und Grenze im Bayerischen Wald und Šumava“. Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa, 31 March 2023, https://www.copernico.eu/de/themenbeitraege/grenzenlos-wild-naturschutz-und-grenze-im-bayerischen-wald-und-sumava.
• (with Astrid M. Eckert) “Transcending the Cold War: The European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain.” In Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook, hrsg. von Patrick Kupper und Anna-Katharina Wöbse, 129-153. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.
• (with George Holmes, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Graham Huggan, Katie Ritson und Eveline R. de Smalen) “Mainstreaming the Humanities in Conservation.” Conservation Biology 36,3 (2022): 1-4.
• “‘Minutes Away, Worlds Apart’: The Changing Imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands.” In Special Section “Representing Islands – Producing Islandness: Rethinking Identities, Mobilities, and Relations in Island Research,” eds. Sarah Nimführ and Greca N. Meloni, Island Studies Journal 16,2 (2021): 80-96.
• „Die Teilung des Eisernen Vorhangs. Grenzüberschreitender Naturschutz im Bayerischen Wald und Šumava.“ In Urwald der Bayern. Geschichte, Politik und Natur im Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, hrsg. von Marco Heurich und Christof Mauch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, S. 84-96.