Franz Krause

Franz Krause is professor of environmental anthropology and co-director of the MESH (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities) hub at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research revolves around water in social and cultural life. He has conducted research on communal irrigation in the Philippines, life along a river in Finland, flood memories in England, wetland uses in Estonia and deltaic transformations in Canada. He is co-editor of Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments Where Rivers Meet the Sea (Berghahn, 2021), co-author of Deltawelten | Delta Worlds: Leben Zwischen Land Und Wasser | Life between Land and Water (Reimer, 2022) and author of Thinking Like a River: An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland (Transcript, 2023).