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Dr. Katja Bruisch

Ussher Assistant Professor (History)
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Dr. Katja Bruisch

Ussher Assistant Professor (History)
ARTS BUILDING

 bruischk@tcd.ie

 3531896 3192


Ussher Assistant Professor in Modern Environmental History (Trinity College Dublin, since 2016), Research Fellow (German Historical Institute Moscow, 2010 - 2016), Phd (Eastern European History, University of Goettingen, 2013); MA (Eastern European History & Economics, University of Goettingen, 2008).
Project Title
 RePEAT- A Modern Resurvey of Mapped Irish Peatlands to Refine Assessment of Land Use Change and Progress Greenhouse Gas Removal and Emissions Inventories
From
Jan 2022
To
Dec 2024
Summary
Funding Agency
DAFM
Project Title
 Diffuse Water Pollution: NUtrient capture REcovery and reCycling systems (NuReCycle)
From
2021
To
2026
Summary
Funding Agency
Trinity College Dublin
Programme
Kinsella Challenge-based E3 Multi-disciplinary Project Awards

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Medium
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
Russian Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
DGO - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde 2016
ESEH - European Society for Environmental History 2017
BASEES - British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2024
Katja Bruisch, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 278pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
How Wetlands Entered the Transnational Spaces of Late Soviet Environmentalism in, editor(s)Catherine Evtuhov, David Moon, Julia Lajus , Thinking Russia's History Environmentally, New York, Berghahn, 2023, pp201-221 , [Katja Bruisch], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe in, editor(s)Liesbeth van de Grift, Dietmar Müller, Corinna Unger , Living with the Land: Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe - A Handbook, Berlin, DeGruyter, 2022, pp37-60 , [Katja Bruisch and Liesbeth van de Grift], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Nature Mistaken: Resource-Making, Emotions and the Transformation of Peatlands in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Environment and History, 26, (3), 2020, p359 - 382, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Katja Bruisch, The State in the Swamps: Territorialization and Ecosystem Engineering in the Western Provinces of the Late Russian Empire, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies, 68, (3), 2019, p345-368-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Katja Bruisch, Layers of Meaning and Layers of Time in a Former Russian Peat Mining Region, 2019, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED  URL
Knowledge and Power in the Making of the Soviet Village in, editor(s)Liesbeth van de Grift and Amalia Ribi Forclaz , Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe, New York, Routledge, 2018, pp139-163 - [Katja Bruisch], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Herrschaft, Ökonomie und Utopie: Russlands ländliche Räume im 20. Jahrhundert in, editor(s)Magdalena Marszalek, Werner Nell, Marc Weiland , Über Land: Aktuelle literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Dorf und Ländlichkeit, Bielefeld, transcript, 2018, pp285 - 307, [Katja Bruisch], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65, 3, (2017), Katja Bruisch; Nikolaus Katzer, [eds.], Notes: [Reconciling Failure and Success: Soviet Elites and the Collectivized Village], Journal, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch; Timur Mukhamatulin, Coming to Terms With the Village: Stalin's Death and the Reassessment of Rural-Urban Relations in the Soviet Union, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65, (3), 2017, p401 - 422, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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Katja Bruisch and Lily Toomey, 'RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times', NLI and other locations across Ireland, 2025, -, Notes: [https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhibition-repeat-reimagining-irelands-peatlands-precarious-times], Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Move over for AI, Dublin Review of Books, 2025, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Clare Kelly, Katja Bruisch and Caitriona Leahy, We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI, 2025, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Review of Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29. London: Bloomsbury, 2024, by Sarah G. Brinegar , H-Environment, H-Environment, 2024, Review, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Review of Roter Fluss auf Schwarzer Erde. Der Kuban und der agromeliorative Komplex: Eine sowjetische Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte 1929-1991. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2022, by Timm Schönfelder , Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 72, (1), 2024, p157-159 , Review, PUBLISHED
Umweltgeschichte: Der Mensch im Moor, in, editor(s)Heinrich Böll Stiftung, BUND, Michael Succcow Stiftung, Greifswald Moor Centrum , Mooratlas: Daten und Fakten zu nassen Klimaschützern, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2023, pp20-21 , [Katja Bruisch], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Review of Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, by Susanne A. Wengle , Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 71, (2), 2023, p327-329 , Review, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Review of Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, by Catherine Gibson , Isis, 114, (2), 2023, p439-439 , Review, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch, Mensch und Moor in der Moderne: Die Geschichte einer komplizierten Beziehung, Politische Ökologie, 169, (2), 2022, p32-37 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Katja Bruisch and Jennifer Keating, History is Abused to Underwrite Politics of Putin's Russia, 2022, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin since 04/2026
Fellow, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (Helsinki office) 06/2026
Trinity Research Doctorate Award 2025-26 03/2026
Grace Lawless Lee Award, Department of History 2025
Nomination Teaching Excellence Award 2024-25 12/2024
Nomination Award for Excellence in Research Student Supervision 02/2024
Kinsella Challenge-Based E3 Multidisciplinary Awards 09/2021
Provost's Project Award 12/2019
Visiting Fellowship 2019/20, Aleksanteri Institute Helsinki 04/2019
Conference Funding, Thyssen Foundation (Co-PI: Alexandra Oberländer, Berlin) 08/2018
ASSBF, TCD 01/2018
Charlemont Travel Award, Royal Irish Academy 03/2017
Grace Lawless Lee Award, Department of History, TCD 06/2017
Visiting Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Moscow 2010
German Research Foundation DFG, Doctoral fellowship 2008-2010
German Academic Exchange Service DAAD 2005-2006