Sam Hege

Sam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. There, he is a member of Department: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life and a contributor to the “Unknowing Environmental Crisis” and “Troubling Exposure” Research Groups. Before joining the MPIWG, Sam completed his PhD in Environmental History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and was a visiting fellow at the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His research interests include food history, the environmental justice movement, and the politics and infrastructures of water. He has taught courses at the intersection of Environmental Humanities, Urban Geographies, and the Afterlives of Slavery and Colonialism. Alongside his own research into the history of water privatization in the U.S. Southwest, Sam has worked on multiple public and digital humanities projects. He has contributed to the Climates of Inequality exhibit, the Public History Project, and the Democracy Conversation Project. 

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