Christof Mauch (born 9 February 1960 in Sindelfingen, Germany) is a German historian, presently director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, and since 2007 professor of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at LMU Munich. From 1999 to 2007, Mauch was the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C.. Mauch received his D.Phil. in Modern German literature from the University of Tübingen in 1990, and his D.Phil. in modern history in 1998 from the University of Cologne. He has published and edited many books in the fields of U.S. and German history and environmental history. From 2009 to 2011, Mauch was chair of the board of directors of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and from 2011 to 2013 president of the European Society for Environmental History. In May 2013, he was appointed honorary professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China. In the same year, he was awarded the Carl-von-Carlowitz Prize of Germany's Council for Sustainable Development, and in 2017, he received the Award for a Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History.