Teaching

My teaching examines how the humanities and social sciences can understand, interpret, and respond to planetary change, and how planetary politics can be analyzed and designed through conceptual, methodological, and field-based inquiry.

At Justus Liebig University Giessen, I have built a sequence of MA-level modules that introduces students to planetary thinking, advances planetary methods, and translates conceptual work into empirical field inquiry. Since 2026, I have also been course director of the M.Sc. One Health.

Frederic Hanusch with a group of students in the atrium of the European Central Bank
Field trip to the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, September 2026

Modules in Giessen

Since 2026

Introduction to One Health

M.Sc. module · MK-137-EN

Since 2026

Planetary Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

M.Sc. module · MP-265-EN

Since 2026

Field Trips to Sites of Planetary Politics

M.Sc. module · MP-270-EN

Since 2025

Planetary Thinking

M.Sc. module · MK-132-EN-DI

2020 – 2021

Foundations of Planetary Thinking

M.A. module

Earlier seminars

2017 – 2019

Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratie

Sustainability and Democracy · M.A. seminar, co-taught · University of Potsdam

2017/18

Zeit, Demokratie und globaler Wandel

Time, Democracy and Global Change · M.A. seminar · Heidelberg University

2016

Die Herausforderung der Demokratie durch den Klimawandel

The Climate Change Challenge for Democracy · M.A. seminar · Heidelberg University

Supervision

(selection)

Since 2026

Shaping Public Opinion on Planetary Infrastructure: The Case of Small Modular Reactors

Doctoral project · first supervisor

2026

Andean Women’s Ways of Knowing through Andean Peasant Agriculture

Doctoral thesis · second supervisor

2026

Closing the Greenwashing Gap: Real-Time Environmental Non-Compliance Disclosure for Risk Transparency in EU Sustainable Finance

M.Sc. thesis · Transition Management

2025

How Automation Technology Shapes Ethical Human-Cow Relations and Planetary Awareness on an Organic Dairy Farm

M.Sc. thesis · Sustainable Transition

2026

Wer spricht für das Wasser? Planetare Gesundheit im politischen Aushandlungsfeld

B.Sc. thesis · Environment and Global Change

Since 2025

Examiner in several doctoral defenses

Justus Liebig University Giessen