Wilko Graf von Hardenberg is a historian of science and the environment. He studied history in Turin and earned his Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge. He currently leads the DFG/AHRC project "The Sound of Nature. Soundscapes and Environmental Awareness, 1750-1950" at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universitär zu Berlin. He has been a visiting professor at the same university and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He wrote the first history of the Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy during the years of the Fascist regime: A Monastery for the Ibex. Conservation, State, and Conflict on the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). He is also a co-author of La natura del duce: una storia ambientale del fascismo (Einaudi, 2022), which was also translated into English as Mussolini's Nature (MIT Press 2022). His next book, Sea Level: A History, a history of the concept of sea level from the 18th century to the Anthropocene, will be published in the fall of 2024 by the University of Chicago Press.
