Aleksandra Kaye is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Her current research examines cross-regional interactions and the circulation of environmental knowledge concerning forest stewardship and petroleum prospecting and extraction. She looks at the interplay between quantifiable anthropogenic disturbances to forest cover connected to mining and the related human responses to these processes, asking: what informed contemporaneous judgment over perceived local environmental threat, or lack of, and in what categories was it conceptualised? Her doctoral research at University College London traced the histories of Polish scientific professionals in Latin America in the nineteenth century (1830-1889) and their role in the production, transnational transfer, and acceptance of scientific knowledge. She is also keenly interested in applying diverse digital methods to historical research.