Andrea Westermann earned her PhD in History from the University of Bielefeld with a dissertation on Plastic and Political Culture in West Germany. She specializes in the history of earth sciences, environmental history, environmental migration, and the history of material culture. From 2017 to 2020, she was a research fellow and the head of the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at Berkeley. From 2016 to 2020, she was one of the h-sozkult editors for the history of knowledge and, from 2019 to 2020, a co-editor of migrantknowledge.org. Recent articles are: “Migrations and Radical Environmental change,” in: NTM 27 (2019) 3; “A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding up and down Temporal Scales with Plastic,” in: Dan Edelstein et al. (eds.), Power and Time. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (University of Chicago Press 2020); and “Enrichment and Dilution in the Atacama Mining Desert: Writing History from an Earth-Centered Perspective;” in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 46 (2020) 4.