Andreas Schurr

Andreas Schurr is a Researcher at the European University Institute's Department of History, specializing in global and transnational history with a focus on 19th-century Latin America. His work explores European colonial projects in Mexico through environmental and imperial lenses.

• Research Themes: Global, imperial and colonial history; Europe in the world; Transnational history; 19th century; Latin America
• Email: andreasmarkus.schurr@eui.eu

Recent Research: His 2025 article "Alemanes para salvar México" examines Carl Sartorius's colonization projects during the 1848 global crisis, bridging European imperial ambitions and environmental exploitation in Mexico.

Academic Supervision: Supervised by Professor Pieter M. Judson and Dr. Lucy Riall, with a thesis titled "Colonial Dreams: Carl Sartorius, Hacienda Mirador, and the Conquest of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Mexico".