Kiran Patel

Prof. Dr. Kiran Patel serves as a Professor in the Department of History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and holds a Board Member position with ProEnviron, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on environment and society.

Patel's research centers on two primary domains:

• Environmental History: Examining environmental movements and policies across national, transnational, and international scales, with specialized focus on spatial concepts in history, rural spaces, and agricultural history.
• History of Science and Knowledge: Investigating historical trajectories of research policies and knowledge production systems.

Regional expertise spans Western Europe and the United States of America, informing comparative analyses of environmental governance and scientific institutional development.