Dr. Eduardo Relly is a member of the German-Brazilian project “DPB - Deutschsprachige Presse in Brasilien” (DFG) at the Baden-Württembergisches Brasilien- und Lateinamerika-Zentrum (Universität Tübingen) where he conducts as Principal Investigator the project “DIGIMATA: digitisation of the German-Brazilian press for the analysis of socio-ecological changes in the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest, 1852-1941 (CNPq, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil).
Eduardo Relly completed his PhD Studies in History at the Freie Universität Berlin and he has a Master in Environment and Development (Field: Environmental Sciences) from the University Vale do Taquari in Southern Brazil. He has been mostly active in Brazilian and German academia, since he has taken over research as well as teaching positions in Bielefeld (BGHS, Uni Bielefeld), Munich (Rachel Carson Centre, LMU München), São Leopoldo-Porto Alegre (University Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS), and Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena – FSU Jena).
From 2021 to 2024, he worked as Post-Doc (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the FSU Jena in the Collaborative Research Center Transregio SFB/TRR 294 “Structural Change of Property” (project JRT03 “Ownership of genetic resources: On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bioeconomy”). In the second funding phase of the SFB/TRR 294 he remains as an associated researcher in the project A08 “Wildlife as a commodity and more-than-human property: On the model environmental stewardship in Namibia”. He also collaborates at the Internationalen Forschungskollegs Argentinien/Cono Sur (Arcosur) at the FSU Jena
His research interests include: the humid subtropical climate/ecologies; commons history/theory; Latin American indigenous studies; (German-) settler colonialism in Latin America; the history of agrarian sciences, forestry and biodiversity; genetic biodiversity, traditional knowledge and intellectual property; digital history and GIS.
