Prof. Glassheim teaches Central European and environmental history. His most recent book, Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), explores the post-war ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of the former Sudetenland. He is currently working on a mining history of the twentieth century, with particular attention to how the material and economic histories of open-pit mining have affected mining communities and how those communities have envisioned post-mining futures.