Prof. Dr. Anne Rademacher

Academic Career and Research Areas

Anne Rademacher is an urban political ecologist and ethnographer. Her work explores the social life of urban environmental change: its scientific contours, its socio-cultural dynamics, and its role in political change. Research interests include urban riverscapes, migration and urban tenure rights, urban open spaces, and the social and material practices of environmental architecture. Her most recent books are Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities and Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai.

Trained in the environmental sciences and cultural anthropology at the Yale School of the Environment, Anne served for almost two decades as an assistant, associate, and full professor in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Anthropology at New York University. She joined TUM in June of 2024, where she is Chair of Sustainable Urban Environments in the School of Social Sciences and Technology.