Committees & Councils

Please find below a list of all the current ESEH committees and councils and their members.

ESEH 2025 Programme Committee

John Lee (Durham University, UK)
Melina Antonia Buns (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Sebastian Depretto (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
Onur Inal, chair (University of Vienna, Austria)
Sabine Höhler (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
Anna Olenenko (University of Alberta, Canada)

Grants Committee

Agnes Limmer (LMU Munich, Germany)
Stefan Dorondel (Casa Academiei Romane, Bucharest, Romania)
Kate Stevens, chair (University of Waikato, Australia)
Luregn Lenggenhager (University of Cologne, Germany)

Diversity Committee

Marianna Dudley (University of Bristol, UK)
Marianna Szczygielska, chair (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Budhaditya Das (Ambedkar University Delhi, India)
Jabulani Shaba (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Communication Committee

Jonatan Palmblad (Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Germany)
Nina Vieira (Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal)
Gilberto Mazzoli (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Nicole Miller (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Roberta Biasillo (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Conference Venue Selection Committee

Christian Rohr, chair (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
Diogo De Carvalho Cabral (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Kati Lindström (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)

Sustainability Committee

Małgorzata Praczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Eugene Costello (University College Cork, Ireland)
Harrison Croft (Monash University, Australia)
Sebastian Lundsteen (University of Stavanger, Norway)

Tallinn Dissertation Prize Committee

Robert Gioielli, chair (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
Marina Luskutova (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Samira P. Moretto (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Brazil)
Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Alice Would (University of Bristol, UK)

St. Andrews Article Prize Committee

Sarah R. Hamilton, chair (University of Bergen, Norway)
Hrvoje Petrić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Iva Peša (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Ellen F. Arnold (University of Stavanger, Norway)

Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History Committee

Samuel Grinsell (University College London, UK)
Heli Huhtamaa (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
Ed Brookes (University of Hull, UK)
Eunice Sueli Nodari (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Teaching Committee

Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Dorothee Brantz (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Philippe Forêt (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Nomination Committee

Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia)
Stephanie Deneve (Université Toulouse III, France)
Marco Armiero (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

Summer School Committee

Omer Aloni, chair (University of Haifa, Israel)
Ben Anderson (Keele University, UK)
Tanja Riekkinen (Oulu University, Finland)
Anneli Ekblom (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Council of Regional Representatives

Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia – Australasia
Simone Schleper, Maastricht University, The Netherlands – Benelux countries
Kati Lindström, (chair) KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and University of Tartu, Estonia – Baltic states
Ben Anderson, Keele University, UK; Clare Hickman, Newcastle University – Britain and Ireland
Žiga Zwitter, Department of History, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia – Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia
Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechia – Czechia and Slovakia
Elsa Devienne, Northumbria University (UK) – France
Robert Groß, Institute for Social Ecology, Austria; Katharina Scharf, University of Graz, Austria – German speaking countries
George L. Vlachos, National Hellenic Research Foundation / National Kapodistrian University of Athens – Greece
Anna Varga, University of Pécs, Hungary – Hungary
Omer Aloni, University of Haifa, Israel – Israel
Viktor Pál
, University of Helsinki, Finland & Tuomas Rasanen, University of Turku,  Finland – Nordic countries
Małgorzata Praczyk, Department of History, University of Poznań, Poland – Poland
Nina Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal – Portugal
Cosmin Koszor-Codrea, New European College, Bucharest, Romania – Romania
Anastasia Fedotova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia – Russia
Muchaparara Musemwa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa – South Africa
Santiago Gorostiza, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain – Spain
Onur Inal, University of Vienna, Austria – Turkey
Giacomo Bonan, University of Torino, Italy – Italy
Petar Todorov, Univerzitet “Sv. Kiril i Metodij”, Skopje, North Macedonia – North Macedonia
Anna Olenenko, University of Alberta, Canada – Ukraine