André Krebber

André Krebber is an environmental historian of the ideas and science of modern Europe in its global entanglements. He is currently senior researcher at Albrecht-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He is particularly interested in how ideas about animal agency emerge and shape human-nature relations since early modern times.

He is the coeditor of the Handbook of Historical Animal Studies (De Gruyter, 2021) and OktoLab, an artistic-scientific research repository on octopuses. In his forthcoming book, The Forgotten Animal, he explores the scientific procedures and animal understandings at play in the early modern works of René Descartes, Herman Samuel Reimarus, and Maria Sibylla Merian.

His current project is a study of how human planetary relations have been negotiated and what these suggest about human and nonhuman historical agency.