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Lisa Cronjäger is a doctoral student at the University of Basel at the institute for media history and theory. From 2010 to 2017 she studied cultural history and theory and history of art at Humboldt-University in Berlin. During an Erasmus exchange year at the University of Helsinki, she specialized in anthropological perspectives on environmental conflicts. In her master thesis “Sustainability in Travelogues” she analyzed a report on the forests in Finland written by Edmund von Berg, director of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (1859). Since 2017 she has been a member of the research project “Media of Exactitude”. In 2021 she was granted a scholarship by the University of Basel Research Fund for Junior Researchers. In her dissertation she investigates forest taxation mapping as a cultural technique that was considered to be sustainable in the 19th century. In particular, she asks for the strategies of representation of forest maps and their role in land-use conflicts.
For further information see: https://medienwissenschaft.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/lisa-cronjaeger/
M.A. in Cultural History and Theory, 2017
Humboldt University Berlin
ERASMUS exchange studies, 2015
University of Helsinki
B.A. in Cultural History and Theory, Art and Visual Studies, 2013
Humboldt University Berlin
Pedantry and Historiography