I’m a research scholar in Department II of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where I work on the history of ecology, environmentalism, and human-animal relations. In my first book, Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), I wrote about the history of wildlife radiotracking and the paradoxical project of saving wildness by bringing it under human control. My current research focuses on the history and ethics of conservation biology and on the constitution of more-than-human communities.
More:
Wired Wilderness
Animal History Core Readings
Polar Bears in the Federal Register
CV (including links to publications)
Blog
Contact:
Email: ebenson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Twitter: @esbenson
Phone: +49 30 22667 153
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr 22
14195 Berlin
Germany