Eric Lindheim-Marx

Eric Lindheim-Marx, of Goleta, California, is a PhD student at Stanford University. He studies the history of medieval Central Europe (ca. 900-1300 CE), with particular focus on the Ostsiedlung and interactions between Germanic and Slavic peoples from the Baltic to the Danube. He is keenly interested in environmental and social history, incorporating sources and methods learned and adapted from archaeology and the natural sciences to unearth and examine life on the Holy Roman Empire’s eastern frontier. Much of his research at Stanford so far has explored human-landscape interactions, land development and resource exploitation, and societal reactions to novel environmental phenomena and conditions.