Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University. Rohland was trained as an environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2014 and was a doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) from 2008-2014. Rohland is the author of two books, Sharing the Risk. Fire, Climate and Disaster. Swiss Re 1864-1906 (Lancaster: 2011) and Changes in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans, 1718 to the Present, 2019. With her third book project, tentatively entitled Encountering the Tropics and Transforming Unfamiliar Environments in the Caribbean, 1494 to 1804, her research focus moves geographically from the U.S. Gulf Coast into the Caribbean, specifically to Hispaniola and Jamaica.