Anne Berg received her BA in history and psychology from Rutgers University in 2002 and her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2011. Trained as a historian of modern Germany and Europe, she has been teaching German, European and world history at the University of Michigan since 2012, where she is currently both a lecturer and the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research follows multiple tracks: as well as studying cities, war, public leisure, film, and popular culture, she has a deep interest in the global politics of waste and recycling. Anne is conducting research along a number of parallel paths, all connected by her sustained interest in the visual, the spatial, and the material, as well as the technologies that mediate, govern, and decode them. She is currently completing the manuscript of her first book, Urban Legends: Cinema and the making of the Nazi city, and is also working on a second book project provisionally entitled Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and war in Nazi Germany. Lastly, she is working on a number of connected articles on the politics of the crudest of waste management technologies: the dump.