Previously she was the Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Georgetown University, USA. From 2010 to 2014, she was a research associate and lecturer at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the principal investigator of a DFG-research project about nature conservation in East and West Berlin. Forthcoming with UPittPress: Nature Protection and the Iron Curtain. Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries 1945-1990, ed. with John McNeill. http://www.astrid-kirchhof.de/en