Sonja Dümpelmann co-directs the Rachel Carson Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where she is Professor and Chair of Environmental Humanities. She was previously Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Dümpelmann is a historian of urban landscapes and environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her most recent award-winning books are Landscapes for Sport: Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health (edited volume; Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022) and Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin (Yale University Press, 2019).