2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-6471
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: tzeller[at]umd.edu

          Thomas Zeller, a specialist in environmental history and the history of technology, has published Strasse, Bahn, Panorama in 2002. A revised English translation of this book, Driving Germany: The Landscape of the Autobahn, 1930-1970, came out in 2007 with Berghahn Books. He is the coeditor of two volumes on the environmental history of Germany: How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, coedited with Franz-Josef Brüggemeier and Mark Cioc (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005) and Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, coedited with Thomas Lekan (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005). With Christof Mauch, he has coedited the volumes The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007) and Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008). Thomas Zeller has published several articles on on the historical interplay of technology and environment in shaping landscapes. His current book-length project, Consuming Landscapes, is a comparative study of the driving experience in 20th-century Germany and the United States. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, among others. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. At the University of Maryland, his appointment is shared between the Department of History and the A.J. Clark School of Engineering. For the latter, he teaches in the Gemstone Program and the College Park Scholars Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

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