Laura Dierksmeier is a historian working in the German Research Foundation funded Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1070) “Resource Cultures” at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
For her 2016 dissertation on Mexican Indigenous history (University of Tübingen) she received the Bartolomé de las Casas Dissertation Award from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Albert C. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History.
Currently, she is writing her second monograph within the field of island studies, analyzing the effects of water scarcity and flooding on daily life on islands under the Spanish Empire.
Laura Dierksmeier recently finished two co-edited books, one on indigenous knowledge transmission from Latin America to Europe and the other on the role of islands in Mediterranean history. She co-leads a German Research Foundation Funded academic network on island studies.