Personenprofil
Kurzprofil
I'm a historical sociologist working on the relationship between society and nature in a global perspective. My first book Working Nature: Steam, Power, and the Failure of the Energy Economy (forthcoming) offers a historical account of the energy economy informed by a Critical Theory of Nature: Rather than assuming society uses energies available in nature, I propose to conceive of the energy economy as a dialectical self-realization of society against nature's resistance.
My recent research deals with the decarbonization of the electric grid, the theory and practice of Soviet energy planning, as well as early Soviet ecological thought.
My main areas of interest include:
Global historical sociology of the environment, resources, and energy
Electric Grids, Energy Transitions and Decarbonization
Environmental and Energy History in Russia and Eastern Europe
Historical Epistemology & Sociology of Science and Technology
Historical Materialism and Critical Theory
Berufliche Laufbahn
- 02/2024 - 04/2024
Fellow im 'Technology, the Environment, and the Future of Europe'-Programm am Remarque Institute for the Study of Europe, New York University - 11/2019 - 09/2022
Post-Doc am Department of Sociology der University of Toronto - 10/2017 - 10/2019
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Graduiertenkolleg 'World Politics' der Universität Bielefeld - 04/2016 - 06/2016
Stipendiatin des Deutschen Historischen Instituts, Moskau - 02/2014 - 09/2017
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Abteilung Wissenschaftssoziologie des Forums Internationale Wissenschaft der Universität Bonn - 10/2011 - 01/2014
Studentische Hilfskraft, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Ausbildung
- 10/2016 - 04/2017
Fulbright-Stipendiatin an der Columbia University, New York City - 10/2007 - 12/2013
Studium der Sozialwissenschaften und Slawischen Sprachen in Berlin und Belgrad
- Ruß, D.'Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years': Renewable Energy and Planetary Thought in the Early Soviet Union (1917-1945)Contemporary European history. 2022. 31 (4). S. 491–508.
- Ruß, D.Energetika: Gleb Krzhizhanovskii’s Conception of the Nature–Society MetabolismHistorical Materialism. 2021. 29 (2). S. 188–218.
- Ruß, D.Produktivistische Ökologie: Der Energiebegriff der klassischen Moderne und seine Implikationen für eine kritische SoziologieBerliner Journal für Soziologie. 2023.
Fachgebiete
Philosophie, Soziologie, Geschichtswissenschaft
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