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J.R. McNeill
History Department & School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1035
[email protected]
DOB: 6 October 1954
updated 3/2017
1. Education
Ph.D. 1981 Duke University
M.A. 1977 Duke University
B.A. 1975 Swarthmore College
2. Professional Employment
20062003-06
19931990-93
1985-90
1983-85
1981-83
1982-83
1975-76
University Professor, Georgetown University
Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environment and International Affairs, Georgetown
Professor, School of Foreign Service and History Dept., Georgetown University
Associate Professor of history, Georgetown University
Assistant Professor, intersocietal and African history, Georgetown University
Assistant Professor, European history, Goucher College
Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
Researcher, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Instructor in Geography and Economics, Athens College (Athens, Greece)
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
2015
2010
2000
1992-93
University of Oslo
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
University of Otago (New Zealand)
3. Publications
BOOKS:
2016
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since
1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), 275pp [with Peter
Engelke]
Translations: Chinese (CITIC Press)
2010
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and Warfare in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
(New York: Cambridge University Press), 371pp
Winner of the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book
on the history of Canada, the United States, or Latin America
Winner of PROSE Award (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly
Excellence) for the best book in European and World History
Finalist, Turku Prize, for the best book in European environmental history
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Georgetown University (2012)
Translated into: Chinese [CITIC]
2003
The Human Web (New York: Norton), 350pp [co-authored with W.H. McNeill]
Translated into: Dutch [Het Spectrum]; Spanish [Critica]; Swedish [SNS Forlag]; Chinese [Peking
University Press]; Finnish [Vastapaino]; Korean [Yeeson]; Japanese [Rakkousha]; Arabic [NCCAL
Kuwait]; Thai [Matichon]
2000
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century
World (New York: Norton [London: Penguin, 2001]), 421pp
Times (London) list of 10 best science books ever written [12 June 2008]
World History Association Book Prize
Forest History Society, Weyerhauser Book Prize
BP Natural World Book Prize (runner-up)
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Georgetown University (2003)
translated into: Italian [Einaudi], Spanish [Alianza], Swedish [SNS], German [Campus], Japanese
[University of Nagoya Press], French [Champ Vallon], Hungarian [Ursus Libris], Chinese [Citic
Press, 2006, 2017]
1992
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (New
York: Cambridge University Press), 423pp [paperback 2003]
Translated into Spanish [Caixa Catalunya]
1985
The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press), 329pp
EDITED BOOKS:
2017
Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 (Berkeley:
University of California Press) [co-edited with George Vrtis]
2015
Cambridge World History. Vol. 7. Production, Destruction, and Connection,
1750 – Present. Part 1: Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making (Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press). [co-edited with Ken Pomeranz]
2015
Cambridge World History. Vol. 7. Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750
– Present. Part 2: Shared Transformations? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press). [co-edited with Ken Pomeranz]
2012
Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader (London: Routledge)
[co-edited with Alan Roe]
2012
A Companion to Global Environmental History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
[co-edited with Erin Stewart Mauldin]
2012
World Environmental History (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing) [coedited with 6 colleagues]
2010
Environmental Histories of the Cold War (New York: Cambridge University
Press) [co-edited with Corinna Unger]
2010
Environmental History As If Nature Existed (New Delhi: Oxford University
Press) [co-edited with José Augusto Padua and Mahesh Rangarajan]
2007
Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global
Environmental Change (Lanham: AltaMira Press) [co-edited with Alf
Hornborg and Joan Martinez Alier]
2006
Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History
(Cambridge UK: White Horse Press) [co-edited with Verena Winiwarter]
2005
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire
Publishing Group) 5 vols. [co-edited with 5 colleagues]
2003
Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (New York: Routledge) 3 vols.
[co-edited with Sheperd Krech and Carolyn Merchant]
2001
Environmental History in the Pacific World (Aldershot: Ashgate).
1992
Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition (London: Routledge)
274pp [co-edited with Alan Karras; re-published as e-book in 2002]
EDITED BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Nature’s Iron Curtain (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Environmental History of World War I (Cambridge University Press)
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ESSAYS:
2017
“Making the Case for A Formal Anthropocene Epoch: An Analysis of Ongoing
Critiques,” Newsletters on Stratigraphy [with several co-authors] 44: 205-26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/nos/2017/0385
2017
“Scale and Diversity of the Physical Technosphere: A Geological Perspective,”
The Anthropocene Review [with 24 co-authors] 4:1-14.
2016
“Historians, Superhistory, and Climate Change.” In: Methods in World History
ed. by Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal and Maria W. Bondesson (Lund: Nordic
Academic Press), 19-43.
2016
“Useful only if we want to be” (有用与否,随心而动). Journal for Ecological
History (生态 史研究) 1 (2016): 156-157.
2016
“The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic
changes in production and consumption across the biosphere,” Earth’s Future, 4,
doi:10.1002/2015EF000339. [with 24 co-authors]
2016
“Kerülöm az akadémiai zsargon használatát.” Interjú John Robert McNeill
környezettörténésszel.” Korall 53:5-18. [a long interview]
2016
“The Geological Cycle of Plastics and Their Use as A Stratigraphic Indicator of
the Anthropocene,” Anthropocene doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2016.01.002 [with 16 coauthors, Jan 2016]
2016
“The Anthropocene is Functionally and Stratigraphically Distinct from the
Holocene,” Science 351, no 6269 (8 January 2016), 137. [with 23 co-authors;
10pp version at http://dx.doi. org/10.1126/ science.aad2622]
[according to Altmetrics, this was the 84th most influential “research output” of 2.7 million published in 2016]
2016
“The Anthropocene and the Eighteenth Century,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 49,
no. 2 (2016), 117–28
2015
“Harrison, Globalization, and the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease,”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89(2015), 696-99.
2015
“Atmosfaerens historie i kortform,” Vardøger 35: 5-8. [Norwegian translation
of a 2011 piece on the history of the atmosphere from The Geographer]
2015
“Epoch: Disputed Start Dates for the Anthropocene,” Nature 520 (23 April), 436
[co-authored with the Anthropocene Working Group]
2015
“Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750 – Present: Introduction,” in:
J.R. McNeill and Ken Pomeranz, eds., Cambridge World History. Vol. 7.
Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750 – Present. Part 1: Structures,
Spaces, and Boundary Making (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), 149. [co-authored with Ken Pomeranz]
2015
“Energy, Population, and Environmental Change since 1750: Entering the
Anthropocene.” in: J.R. McNeill and Ken Pomeranz, eds., Cambridge World
History. Vol. 7. Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750 – Present. Part
1: Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press), 51-82.
2015
“自1900年以来的国际体系，强权国家和环境变化。H.-G. Brauch, L. Cheng
et al, eds.,
面对全球环境变化：环境，人类，能源，食品，健康和水安全的观念
(Nanjing: Nanjing Press), 43-61. [“The International System, the Great Powers,
and Environmental Change since 1900”]
2015
“Colonization of the Americas, ‘Little Ice Age’ Climate, and Bomb-produced
Carbon: Their Role in Defining the Anthropocene,” The Anthropocene Review
2,2: 117-27 [with 22 co-authors]
2015
“Can Nuclear Weapons Fallout Mark the Beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch?”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71,3(2015), 46-57 [with 10 co-authors]
2015
“Nature Preservation and Political Power in the Anthropocene,” in: Ben Minteer
and Stephen J. Pyne, eds., After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age
of Humans (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 17-23.
2015
“When Did the Anthropocene Begin?” Quaternary International 383(2015), 196203
[with 24 co-authors].
2014
“Introduction,” to John F. Richards, The World Hunt: An Environmental History
of the Commodification of Animals (Berkeley: University of California Press), xixix.
2014
“Presidential Address: Toynbee as Environmental Historian,” Environmental
History 19(2014), 1-20.
2014
“Maunder Minimum and Parker Maximum,” Historically Speaking: The Bulletin
of the Historical Society 14,5 (November 2013 [sic]), 34-35.
2014
“En Route to World Environmental History.” In: Kenneth Curtis, ed., Architects
of World History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 30-55.
2014
“Into the Anthropocene: People and Their Planet.” In: Akira Iriye, ed., Global
Interdependence: The World after 1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press),
365-533 [with Peter Engelke].
Published in German as “Mensch und Umwelt im Zeitalter des Anthopozän,” in Iriye and
Osterhammel, eds. Geschichte der Welt: 1945 bis Heute (Munich: Beck), 357-534.
2013
“Perils of Global Environmental History,” World History Bulletin 29, 2:15-17.
2013
“L’empire des fièvres,” Les grand dossiers des sciences humaines (hors-série no.
2), 54-57.
2013
“The Anthropocene Review: Its Significance, Implications and the Rationale
for a New Transdisciplinary Journal,” The Anthropocene Review 1:1-5 (with
Frank Oldfield, Tony Barnofsky, John Dearing, Marina Fischer-Kowalski,
Will Steffen, Jan Zalaciewicz)
2013
“Radkau on the Americas,” Social Science History 37:393-405.
2013
“International Systems and Their Discontents.” In: Erika Marie Bsumek, David
Kinkela, and Mark A. Lawrence, eds., Nation-States and the Global Environment
(New York: Oxford University Press), 275-87.
2013
“Une Histoire environnementale du monde dans l’ère des énergies fossiles (18002012).” In: Charles-François Mathis and Jean-François Mouhot, eds., Une
Protection de l’environnment à la française? (Paris: Champ Vallon), 26-42.
2013
“Envisioning an Ecological Atlantic, 1500-1850,” Nova Acta Leopoldina 114:2133.
2013
“Problèmes et perspectives de l’histoire globale de l’environnement depuis 1990.”
In: Alain Caillé and Stéphane Dufoix, eds., Le tournant global des sciences
sociales (Paris: La Découverte), 77-100.
2012
“Global Environmental History: An Introduction.” In: J.R. McNeill and E.S.
Mauldin, eds., A Companion to Global Environmental History (Oxford: WileyBlackwell), xvi-xxiv.
2012
“Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years.” In: J.R. McNeill and
E.S. Mauldin, eds., A Companion to Global Environmental History (Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell), 3-17.
2012
“Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History.” In: J.R. McNeill and
E.S. Mauldin, eds., A Companion to Global Environmental History (Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell), 433-52.
2012
“The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa’s Environmental History.”
In: Alan Mikhail, ed., Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East
and North Africa (New York: Oxford University Press), 27-50.
2012
“The State of the Field of Environmental History,” [in Chinese] Quanqiushi
pinglun 4(2011), 3-49.
2011
“A Short History of the Atmosphere,” The Geographer (Autumn 2011), 6-7.
2011
“Thrift and Waste in American History: An Ecological View.” In: Joshua Yates
and James Davison Hunter, eds., Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and
Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present (New York: Oxford University
Press), 508-35 [co-authored with George Vrtis]
2011
“Future Research Needs in Environmental History.” In: K. Coulter and C. Mauch,
eds., The Future of Environmental History (Munich: Carson Center), 13-15.
2011
“Environments of Hell and Paradise,” Journal of Pacific History 46:123-6.
2011
“The Ecological Atlantic.” In: Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan, eds.
The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c. 1450-c.1850 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press), 289-304.
Reprinted in Philip Morgan and Molly Warsh, eds., Early North America in Global Perspective
(London: Routledge, 2014), 77-94.
2011
“Biological Exchanges in World History.” In: J. Bentley, ed., The Oxford
Handbook of World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 325-42.
2011
“The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives,” Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering
Sciences 369 (13 March), no. 1938: 842-67
[co-authored with Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Jacques Grinevald]
2011
“Homogeneity, Heterogeneity, Pigs, and Pandas in World History,”
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 2,1:106-120.
Translated into Chinese and published in Oriental History Review (Beijing) 2014
2011
“Environmental History.” In: U. Rublack, ed., A Concise Companion to History
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), 299-315.
Translated into German [Fischer Verlag] and Chinese [Shanghai Press]
2011
“Henry Ford, Greg Grandin, and the Ideology of Rural Virtue,” Il mestiero di
storico 2:14-18.
2011
“The Historiography of Environmental History.” In: D. Woolf, ed., The Oxford
History of Historical Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), vol.
5:159-76.
2010
“Πληθυσμός και Περιβάλλον στην Βόρειας Πίνδου, 18ο έως τον 20ό αιώνα”
[Population and Environment in the Northern Pindos, 18th to 20th centuries]. In:
Chloe Vassilopoulou and Georgia Liarakou, eds., Perivallontiki istoria: meletes
yia tin archaia kai ti synchroni Elladha [Environmental History: Studies from
Ancient and Modern Greece] (Athens: Elliniki Grammata), 95-126.
Reprinted: (Athens: Pedío, 2011), 77-99.
2010
“The State of the Field of Environmental History,” Annual Review of
Environment and Resources 35 :345-74.
Translated and published in: Quanqiushi pinglun 4(2011), 3-49.
2010
“The First Hundred Thousand Years.” In : Frank Uekotter, ed., The Turning
Points of Environmental History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press), 1328.
2010
“El vòmit negre i la geopolítica: el medi ambient, les epidèmies i les batalles per
l’imperi en els tròpics americans,” Recerques: Història, Economia, Cultura 57
(2008), 7-24 [2008 issue published in 2010]
2010
“World Environmental History: The First 100,000 Years,”
Quanqiushi pinglun [Global History Review] (in Chinese), vol 2:73-82.
2010
“Introduction: The Big Picture.” In: J.R. McNeill and Corinna Unger, eds.,
Environmental Histories of the Cold War (New York: Cambridge University
Press), 1-19 [co-authored with Corinna Unger]
2010
“The Biosphere and the Cold War.” In: Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad,
eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press), vol 3: 422-44.
2010
“The Environment, Environmentalism, and International Society in the Long
1970s.” In: Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent,
eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press), 263-78.
2010
“La fin du monde: est-elle vraiment pour demain?” La revue internationale
des libres et des idées 16(mars-avril 2010), 42-49.
2010
“Introduction: Is Nature A Great Economist?” (with J.A. Padua and M.
Rangarajan) in: J.R. McNeill, J.A. Padua and M. Rangarajan, eds.,
Environmental History As If Nature Existed (New Delhi: Oxford University
Press), 1-10.
2010
“Environmental History in General and in Asia.” In: J.R. McNeill, J.A. Padua and
M. Rangarajan, eds., Environmental History As If Nature Existed (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press), 13-25.
2009
“Sustainable Survival.” In: Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological
Vulnerability and the Aftermath of Empire, ed. by Patricia McAnany and Norman
Yoffee, (New York: Cambridge University Press), 355-66.
2009
“Environmental History in the Americas : The Two Great Invasions,”
Nova Acta Leopoldina 98:185-200.
2009
“The Global Environmental Footprint of the U.S. Military, 1789-2003.” (With
David Painter). In : Charles Closmann, ed., War and the Environment (College
Station, TX : Texas A&M Press), 10-31.
2009
“The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900.”
In : Hans-Günter Brauch, ed. Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental,
Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (Dordrecht:
Springer), 42-52.
2009
“Introduction : Environmental and Economic Management.” In : Alfred McCoy
and Francisco Scarano, eds., Colonial Crucible : Empire in the Making of the
Modern American State (Madison : University of Wisconsin Press), 475-8.
2009
“What Is Global Environmental History ?” Global Environment 2 :228-49 (with
P. Bevilacqua, G. Castro, R. Chakrabarti, K. du Pisani, D. Worster)
2008
“O prirode i kulture ekologicheskoi istorii.” In: Yuliya Laius et al, eds.,
Sovremennye napravleniya v istoricheskoi nauke (St. Petersburg: Aleteiya), 23-83.
2008
“El vómito negro y la geopolítica: El medio ambiente, las epidemias, y las
batallas por el imperio en los trópicos americanos.” In: Reinaldo Funes Monzote,
ed., Naturaleza en declive (Valencia: Biblioteca Historia Social), 99-124.
2008
“Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration and the Space Age in Long-term
Historical Perspective.” In: Steven J. Dick, ed., Remembering the Space Age
(Washington DC: NASA), 3-16.
2008
“Nengyuan diguo: huashi ruanliao yu 1580 nian yilai de diyuan zhengzhi”
[Empires of energy: fossil-fuels and geopolitics since 1580]. Xueshu yanjiu
[Academic Research] 6:108-114.
2008
“Foreword: The Eye of the Needle.” In: Barry Gills and Jan Oosthoek, eds.,
The Globalization of Environmental Crisis (London: Routledge), vii-xi.
2008
“Can History Help with Global Warming?” In: Kurt Campbell, ed.,
Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications
of Climate Change (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press), 26-48.
2008
“Global Environmental History in the Age of Fossil Fuels (1800-2007).”
In: T. Mizoguchi, ed., The Environmental Histories of Europe and Japan
(Kobe: Nagoya University Graduate School), 1-11.
2008
“The Three Stages of the Anthropocene,” Island GeoScience 5, 1:
2-5 [co-authored with Will Steffen]
2008
“Carpintero on Spanish Economic History: A Review Essay,” Global
Environment 1:216-23.
2008
“Impatto ambientale: I primi 100mila anni,” Oxygen [Rome], 2:16-27.
2007
“The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of
Nature?” Ambio 36, 8:614-621. [co-authored with Will Steffen and Paul Crutzen]
Republished in The Globalization and Environment Reader, ed. by Peter Newell and J.T. Roberts
(Chichester: Wiley, 2017), 27-42.
2007
“Global Environmental History since 1900.” In: Angelo Varni, ed., Storia
e ambiente (Bologna: Bononia University Press), 17-26.
2007
“Constraints on War.” In: A. Games and A. Rothman, eds., Major Problems in
Atlantic History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 315-21. [excerpted from 2004
article in OAH Magazine of History]
2007
“Prefacio: Los Pirineos en la historia.” In I. Vaccaro and O. Beltran, eds.,
Ecología política de los Pirineos: Estado, historia y paisaje (Tremp: Garsineu
Edicions), 9-11.
2007
“Il riscaldamento globale, Al Gore, e la veritá,” Passato e Presente 72:119-26.
2007
“World Environmental History: The First 100,000 Years,” Historically Speaking
8 (July/August 2007), 6-8.
[translated into Chinese and printed in Global History Review (Beijing), vol. 2, 73-82; into Italian
and printed in Oxygen [Rome]; reprinted in World History and the History of the West, ed. By D.
Yerxa (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), 28-36.
2007
“The Green Revolution.” In: Mahesh Rangarajan, ed., Environmental Issues in
India (Delhi: Pearson Longman), 184-94. [reprinted from Something New
Under the Sun]
2007
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics, 1640-1830.” in Alf Hornborg et al, eds.,
Rethinking Environmental History (Lanham: AltaMira Press), 199-220.
2007
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes of the Atlantic World: Malaria and Independence
in the United States of America.” In: Paolo Squatriti, ed., Natures Past: The
Environment and Human History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007),
145-71.
2007
“Social, Economic, and Political Forces in Environmental Change:
Decadal Scale (1900 to 2000).” In R. Costanza, L. Graumlich, and W. Steffen,
eds., Sustainability or Collapse: An Integrated History and Future of People on
Earth (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press), 301-330.
2007
“Group Report: Decadal-scale Interactions of Humans and the Environment.”
In: R. Costanza, L. Graumlich, and W. Steffen, eds., Sustainability or Collapse:
An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T.
Press), 341-78. [with 7 co-authors]
2006
“Population and the Natural Environment: Trends and Challenges,”
Population and Development Review, suppl. to vol. 32, 183-201.
2006
“Soils, Soil Knowledge and Environmental History,” in: J.R. McNeill and
Verena Winiwarter, eds., Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental
History (Cambridge UK: White Horse Press), 1-6. [co-authored with V.
Winiwarter]
2006
“Sostenibilidad ambiental y políticas de Estado: una visión histórica,” in Alfonso
Guerra and José Felix Tezanos, eds., Las políticas de la tierra (Madrid : Editorial
Sistema), 175-84.
2006
“Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology,” in: E. Lazlo and P. Seidel, eds.,
Global Survival: The Challenge and Its Implications (New York: Select Books),
189-206.
2006
“Yellow Fever, Empire and Revolution: The Political Impacts of Infectious
Disease in the Caribbean Region, 1640-1900,” in Pekka Hämäläinen ed., When
Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points
(Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 81-111.
2005
“Diamond in the Rough: Is There a Genuine Environmental Threat to Security? A
Review Essay,” International Security 30(1):178-95.
2005
“Modern Global Environmental History” IHDP Update no. 2(2005), 1-3.
2005
“The Great Powers and the Global Environment in the Twentieth Century,”
In: Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies As Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a
Changing World System (Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, 2005),
187-206.
2005
“A Historical Introduction to Global Environmental Change: The Role of
Ideas since 1900,” Cairo Papers in Social Science 26, no. 1(2005), 7-20.
2005
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for
Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1900,” in Jeffry Diefendorf and Kurk
Dorsey, eds., City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press), 193-206.
2005
“Naturaleza y cultura de la historia ambiental,” Nómadas (Instituto de Estudios
Sociales Contemporáneos, Universidad Central, Bogotá) 22(2005), 12-25.
2005
“Drunks, Lampposts, and Environmental History,” Environmental History 10:64-66.
2004
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for
Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1830,” Review (Fernand Braudel Center)
27: 343-64.
Reprinted in: Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global
Environmental Change (Lanham: AltaMira Press) [co-edited by Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and
Joan Martinez Alier], 199-217.
2004
“Woods and Warfare in World History,” Environmental History 9:388-410.
2004
“Breaking the Sod: Humankind, History, and Soil,” Science 304(11 June 2004),
1627-9. [co-authored with Verena Winiwarter]
2004
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for
Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1825,” OAH Magazine of History 18, 3: 913. [this is a highly condensed version of the essay appearing in Review in 2004]
2003
"Foreword," to Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and
Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Wesport, CT: Praeger), xi-xv.
2003
“Theses on Radkau,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 33: 45-52.
2003
“Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History,” History and
Theory 42, no. 4: 5-43.
[translated as “Naturaleza y cultura de la historia ambiental,” and published in Nómadas (Instituto
de Estudios Sociales Contemporáneos, Universidad Central, Bogotá) 22(2005), 12-25.]
2003
“Resource Exploitation and Over-exploitation: A Look at the Twentieth Century.”
In: Brigitta Benzing and Bernd Hermann, eds., Exploitation and Overexploitation
in Societies Past and Present (Münster: International Union of Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences and Lit Verlag), 51-62.
2003
“Environmental Change and Security.” In: Michael E. Brown, ed., Grave New
World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century (Washington: Georgetown
University Press), 178-97.
2003
“Global History, World History, Big History,” Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 14:104-6.
2003
“Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology,” World Futures: The Journal of
General Evolution 59:263-74.
2003
“Environmental History Suggests a Path to Sustainability,” Renewable Resources
Journal 21, no. 1:11-15.
2003
“Europe’s Place in the Global History of Biological Exchange,”
Landscape Research 28:33-39.
2002
“El sistema internacional y el cambio medioambientale en el siglo XX,”
Ayer [Madrid] 46:19-42.
2002
“Consecuencias ambientales de las activivades militares de estados unidos desde
1789,” Ecología Política [Barcelona] 23:49-65
2002
“The Global Environment in the American Century.” In: Roberto Rabel, ed., The
American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect (Westport, CT: Praeger), 41-56.
2002
“Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: Resource Exploitation in the Twentieth Century,”
Global Dialogue 4,1:11-19.
2002
“Yellow Fever and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for
Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1900,” History Now: Te Pae Tawhito O
Te Wa, 8, 2:10-16.
2002
“Environment and History in South America and South Africa.” In: S. Dovers, R.
Edgecombe, and Bill Guest, eds., South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases
and Comparisons (Athens, OH and Cape Town: Ohio University Press and David
Philip), 240-249.
2001
“Introduction” to J.R. McNeill, ed., Environmental History in the Pacific World
(Aldershot: Ashgate), xiii-xxix.
2001
“Biological Exchange and Biological Invasion in World History.” In: Sølvi
Sogner, ed., Making Sense of Global History (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2001),
106-119.
2001
“The World According to Jared Diamond,” The History Teacher 34:165-74.
2001
“Tragedies of Privatization: Land, Liberty, and Environmental Change in Spain
and Italy, 1800-1910.” In: J.F. Richards, ed., Land, Property, and the
Environment (Oakland: Institute for Contemporary Studies), 222-34.
2000
“Ideas Matter: A Political History of the Twentieth-Century Environment,”
Current History 99:371-82.
2000
“Ecology and Strategy in the Mediterranean: Points of Intersection.” in: John B.
Hattendorf, ed., Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean: Past, Present,
and Future (London: Frank Cass, 2000), 374-391.
1999
“Ecologia, Epidemias e Impérios: Mudanças no Ambiente e a Geopolitica da
America Tropical, 1600-1825.” In: Região Autónoma da Madeira, História e
Meio-Ambiente o Impacto da Expansão Europeia (Funchal: Centro de Estudos de
História do Atlântico, 1999), 301-12.
1999
“Epidemics, Environment and Empire: Yellow Fever and Geopolitics in the
American Tropics, 1650-1825,” Environment and History, 5:175-84.
1999
“Islands in the Rim: Ecology and History In and Around the Pacific, 1521-1996.”
In: D.O. Flynn, Lionel Frost, and A.J.H. Latham, eds., Pacific Centuries: Pacific
and Pacific Rim History since the Sixteenth Century (London: Routledge), 70-84.
1998
"Chinese Environmental History in World Perspective" in Mark Elvin and
Ts'ui-jung Liu, eds., Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese
History (NY: Cambridge University Press), 31-52.
Reprinted in China: Adapting the Past: Confronting the Future, ed. by Thomas Buoye et al (Ann
Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002)
1998
“From Magellan to MITI: Pacific Rim Economies and Pacific Island Ecologies
since 1521,” in Sally Miller, A.J.H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn, eds., Studies in
the Economic History of the Pacific Rim (London: Routledge), 72-93.
1997
"Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970" in Hermann Hiery and
John MacKenzie, eds., European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and
German Colonial Policy in the Pacific Islands and Indigenous Response
(London: I.B. Tauris and the German Historical Institute),123-138.
1996
"American Ports and Imperial Trade," in Susan Socolow, ed., The Atlantic Staple
Trade. II. The Economics of Trade (Aldershot, UK: Variorum), 665-96.
1996
"The Reserve Army of the Unmarried in World Economic History: Flexible
Fertility Regimes and the Wealth of Nations" in Derek Aldcroft and Ross
Catterall, eds. Rich Nations, Poor Nations: The Long-Run Perspective
(London:Edgar Elgar), 23-38.
1995
"Chinese Environmental History in World Perspective," in Mark Elvin and Liu
Ts'ui-jung, eds., Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History
(Taipei: Academia Sinica Institute of Economics), 39-66. [in Chinese]
1995
"Enlightenment Ideology and Spanish Ecology (1750-1900)" Human Dimensions
Quarterly vol 1., no. 3(1995), 10-12.
1994
"Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific,"
Journal of World History 5(1994), 299-349.
[reprinted in: J. Donald Hughes, ed. The Face of the Earth: Environment and World
History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), 76-130.]
1994
"Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana," in Chad
Gaffield, ed., The Invention of Canada: Readings in Pre-Confederation History
(Toronto: Copp Clark Longman), 159-200. [reprinted from my 1985 book]
1994
"Toward a Typology and Regionalization of Land Cover and Land Use Change:
Report of Working Group B," in B.L. Turner and W. Meyer, eds., Changes in
Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective (New York: Cambridge
University Press), 55-71.
1993
invited comment on Andre Gunder Frank, "Bronze Age World System Cycles,"
Current Anthropology, 34, 4(August-October 1993), 416-17.
1992
"Kif in the Rif: An Historical and Ecological Perspective on Marijuana, Markets,
and Manure in Northern Morocco," Mountain Research and Development 12,
4(November 1992), 389-92.
1992
"The End of the Atlantic World, 1770-1888," in Alan Karras and J.R. McNeill,
eds., Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition (London:
Routledge), 245-268.
1992
"The Earth As Transformed by Human Action," a review essay in Environment
34(April, 1992):25-29
1991
"Future History. Round I: High Climatic Change (Europe)," in Jill Jäger, ed., The
Challenge of Sustainable Development in a Greenhouse World: Some Visions of
the Future (Stockholm: Stockholm Environmental Institute, 1991), 27-29.
1991
"Future History. Round II: Low Climatic Change," in Jill Jäger, ed., The
Challenge of Sustainable Development in a Greenhouse World: Some Visions of
the Future (Stockholm: Stockholm Environmental Institute, 1991), 46-62.
1989
"Deforestation and Peasant Exodus in the Epirot Pindus," Scientific Annals
of the University of Thessaloniki Department of Forestry and Natural
Environment Vol. LB, no.20 (1989), 489-95.
1988
"Deforestation in the Araucaria Zone of Southern Brazil, 1900-1983," in J.F.
Richards and R.P. Tucker, eds., World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century
(Durham: Duke University Press, 1988), 15-32.
1987
"Twentieth-Century Latin America," in Stephen Fortune, ed. Unbound But Still
Unfree (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 1987), 201-216.
1986
"Agriculture, Forests, and Ecological History: Brazil, 1500-1983," Environmental
Review 10(1986):122-133.
1985
"The Ecological Basis of Warfare in the Caribbean, 1700-1804," in M. Ultee, ed.,
Adapting to Conditions: War and Society in the Eighteenth Century (University:
University of Alabama Press, 1986), 26-42.
1984
"Yellow Fever in Havana in the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of the
Florida Medical Association, 71(1984), 456-462 (co-authored with Dr. William
Coker)
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES, JOURNALISM, AND OCCASIONAL PIECES
2016
“How Fascist is Donald Trump?” Washington Post (20 October)
2016
“Earth Day: Are We at the Beginning of New Geological Era?” Washington Post
22 April [with Peter Engelke]
2014
“Pathogens of the Caribbean: The Prequel,” AHA Perspectives (December)
2013
“Lessons of Munich, Lessons of Vietnam, Lessons of History,” AHA
Perspectives (September)
2013
“MOOCs and Historical Research,” AHA Perspectives (March)
2012
“Preface: History and Environmental History.” In: Bao Maohong, The Origins
of Environmental History and Its Development (Beijing: Peking University Press),
419-21.
2012
“Save the War Stories,” Washington Post op-ed (18 March)
2011
“Mosquitoes at Yorktown,” Washington Post (21 October)
2010
“Environmental History” EOLSS (on-line encyclopedia of the social sciences)
2009
“La croissance urbaine,” Le Monde (December ??)
2008
“E’ iniziata 8 mila anni fa la distruzione del Pianeta,” La Stampa (9 January)
2008
“L’Uomo? Il Principale “Disturbo” della Terra.” L’Unità (11 January)
2007
“Why Bother with Africa and Latin America?” In: AP World History 2007-2008
Professional Development Workshop Materials (Princeton: The College Board),
7-10.
2005
“Biological Exchanges,” in McNeill et al, eds., Berkshire Encyclopedia of World
History (Gt. Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing), 249-256.
2003
“Biological Exchanges,” in Krech, McNeill, and Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of
World Environmental History (NY: Routledge), 133-39.
[reprinted in Berskhire Encyclopedia of World History, McNeill et al eds. 2004,
249-55.]
2003
“Black Sea,” in Krech, McNeill, and Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World
Environmental History (NY: Routledge), 154-5.
2003
“Mediterranean Sea,” in Krech, McNeill, and Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of
World Environmental History (NY: Routledge), 826-8.
2003
“Midgley, Thomas,” in Krech, McNeill, and Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of
World Environmental History (NY: Routledge), 844-5.
2003
“Population, Human,” in Krech, McNeill, and Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of
World Environmental History (NY: Routledge), 1009-14.
2000
“Playing Dice with the Planet,” Financial Times, 2-3 September
1996
"Navy, France" in A. Gallay, ed., Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763:
An Encyclopedia (NY: Garland), 475-77.
1996
"Navy, Spain (1700-1763)," in A. Gallay, ed. Colonial Wars of North America,
1512-1763: An Encyclopedia (NY: Garland), 480-81.
1996
"Louisbourg" in A. Gallay, ed., Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An
Encyclopedia (NY:Garland), 389-91.
1996
"French-Latin American Relations" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History
(New York: Scribner's)
1994
“Environmentalism,” in Peter Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of Social History
(New York: Garland)
1977
"Climbing Kilimanjaro," Swarthmore Alumni Bulletin, 3(1977)
ELECTRONIC FORMAT
2016
2016
2016
“Comment” GSA Today, v. 27, no. 2, p. e36, doi: 10.1130/GSATG309C.1.
[together with several co-authors]
http://culturesofenergy.com/golden-spikes-and-the-great-acceleration-aconversation-with-j-r-mcneill/
“How the Lowly Mosquito Helped America Win Independence,” Smithsonian
Magazine (15 June) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-lowlymosquito-helped-america-win-independence-180959411/?no-ist
2016
2016
2016
2014
2014
2013
2012
2012
2011
2011
2009
2005
2001
1999
1999
1999
1998
“Zika and the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Aedes Aegypti in the Americas,” AHA blog
(8 March)
“Why We Have Reason to Fear Zika,” History News Network (28 February)
“Mosquito-borne Ailments that Changed the World before Zika,” Time Magazine
http://time.com/4245544/mosquito-history/
“Changing Climates of History,” Public Books (1 December)
http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/changing-climates-of-history
“Ebola: A Wake-up Call?” Fortune Magazine (22 October;
http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/ebola-a-wake-up-call/)
“Response to Autin and Holbrook on ‘Is the Anthropocene an Issue of
Stratigraphy or Pop Culture?” Geological Society of America Today
v. 22, doi: 10.1130/GSATG162C.1, p. e21-22.
“Biden v. Ryan” AHA website (12 October)
“Veterans and Remembrance: Before It’s Too Late,” AHA website (October)
“Darkening Skies on the Road to Durban,” YaleGlobal Online (21 November)
[http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/darkening-skies-road-durban-part-i]
[re-published as “The Bumpy Road to Durban in The Khaleej Times, 25
November]
“Responses” H-Environment Roundtable on Mosquito Empires [available at:
http://www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-1-1.pdf]
“Climat : 1890-2009 : la longue marche de la régulation environnementale.”
Fenêtre sur l’Europe, 28 October 2009. [available at:
http://www.fenetreeurope.com/php/page.php?section=dossiers&id=0235]
“Globalization and Yellow Fever,” The Globalist (on-line) 30 August 2005
“Science and Technology in the 20th Century,” Gale Group World History
Encyclopedia
“Environmental History,” Encyclopedia Brittanica On-Line
“The Columbian Exchange,” Encarta On-Line
“Environmental History of the Fossil Fuel Age, 1820-2000,” Encarta On-Line
Timeline of World Ecological History. Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line
4. Grants, Awards, Honors
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
Hamner Lecture, Western Michigan University
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick (UK)
Hood Lectures, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Lefler Lecture, Carleton College
NSF award (co-PI) for fluvial geomorphological/environmental history fieldwork
(Iceland)
Taft Lectures, University of Cincinnati
Keynote speaker, History Day, Fordham University
Keynote speaker, Phi Alpha Theta conference, Georgetown University
Keynote speaker, World History Association annual meeting, San José, Costa
Rica
Chabraja Lecture, Northwestern University
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2011-13
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2005
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001-2
Sagan Lecture, Ohio Wesleyan University
World History Association, Pioneer of World History Award
Astor Lecture, Oxford University
Burack Lecture, University of Vermont
McQuade Family Lecture, Juniata College
Hermann Lecture, Penn State University
Miller Center Distinguished Lecture, University of Maryland
Keynote speaker, Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology conference
Keynote speaker, Lund University world history conference
Keynote speaker, Harvard University energy history conference
Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität, Senior Fellowship
PROSE Award for best book in European and World History (for Mosquito
Empires)
Beveridge Prize, American Historical Association (for Mosquito Empires)
Keynote speaker, First International Conference on the Environment and the Role
of the Modern State, Manaus (Brazil)
Australian National University, Environmental History Seminar, Distinguished
International Visitor
President, American Society for Environmental History
Keynote address, 79th Anglo-American Conference, Institute for Historical
Research, University of London
Convocation Speaker, University of California (Berkeley), International and Area
Studies Graduation
Toynbee Prize
Professeur Invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Alexandrian Society, Virginia Commonwealth University, annual lecture
Keynote Address, University of Texas conference, “The Nation-State and the
Transnational Environment”
Keynote Address, University of Maryland Graduate Student Conference
Hooker Lecture, McMaster University
“Lectio Magistralis” lecturer, Feria Internazionale di Scienze, Rome
Master Class Teacher, Chicago Humanities Festival
Keynote Address, York University Conference on “Disease in World
Environmental History”
Marsico Lecture, University of Denver
Crayenborgh Lecture, Leiden University
Andrews Lecture, Towson University
Plenary Address, International Society for Ecological Economics
Keynote Address, American Bar Association Energy, Environment and Natural
Resources Division
Distinguished Visitor, Yale University, International Security Studies
Şahin Lecture, MIT
Day Lecture, Forest History Society, Duke University
Creighton Lecture, University of Toronto
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Program on Global Security and
Sustainability
2000
1997-8
1996-7
1996
1992-3
1987-88
1985
1976-81
Canterbury Fellow, Christchurch, New Zealand
Guggenheim Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship
Garrod Lecture in Archaeology, Cambridge University
Fulbright (research award in environmental history, New Zealand)
Fulbright (research award in Greece, Italy, Spain)
National Endowment for the Humanities, summer seminar, Columbia University
stipends for graduate study from: H.E.W., Donner Foundation, Mellon
Foundation, Duke Graduate School, Duke Canadian Studies Program
GEORGETOWN AWARDS
(I stopped applying for Georgetown funds in 2003 when appointed to the Cinco Hermanos chair)
2012
2003
2003
2002
2001
2000
2000
1999
1997
1996
1995
1994
1992
1990
1989
1989
1988
1987
1986
Distinguished Research Award, Graduate School [for Mosquito Empires]
summer research grant, graduate school
Distinguished Research Award, Graduate School [for Something New]
summer research grant, School of Foreign Service
summer research grant, graduate school
summer research grant, graduate school
senior faculty research sabbatical (University-wide competition)
summer research grant, School of Foreign Service
summer research grant, graduate school
summer research grant, graduate school
summer research grant, graduate school
summer curriculum grant: environmental history of the 20th century
summer curriculum grant: environmental history of the Americas, 1492-1992
summer curriculum grant: history of the biosphere SFS Walsh Fund
summer research grant, SFS Walsh Fund
McGuire Medal for outstanding service, SFS
summer research grant, SFS Walsh Fund and Graduate School
summer research grant, Graduate School
summer curriculum grant, SFS Walsh Fund
5. Conference Papers, Invited Lectures, and Seminars
2016
“Global Environmental History and the Industrial Revolution,” Bucknell
University (16 November)
2016
“The Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration: Confluence and Collision
between History and Geology,” Cal State – Channel Islands (9 November)
2016
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes,” Western Michigan University (6 October)
2016
“The Environment and Global Economic History, 1500-2000,” London School of
Economics conference on global economic history (28 May)
2016
“Towards A Global Environmental History of the British Industrial Revolution,
1780-1914,” University of Warwick (25 May)
2016
“The Anthropocene and the Humanities,” University of Warwick, UK (24 May)
2016
“The Anthropocene Debates,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia (27
April)
2016
“The Checkered History of Aedes aegypti in the Americas,” Georgetown
Conference on the Zika Virus, Washington DC (22 April)
2016
“Global History, Climate History, Useful History in the Alleged Anthropocene”
German Historical Institute, Washington (3 April)
2016
“Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution,” University of
Auckland (10 March)
2016
“The Anthropocene Debates,” University of Auckland (9 March)
2016
“The Population Catastrophe in the Americas, 1492-1650,” University of
Auckland (6 March)
2016
“The Industrial Revolution as Ecological History” Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin
(19 February)
2016
“World History and The Cambridge World History,” Cambridge University
(18 February)
2016
“Mosquito Empires: Why A Historian Spent His Best Years Learning about
Arcane Arthropods,” Lefler Lecture, Carleton College (11 February)
2015
“The Anthropocene: Are We There Yet?” University of Cincinnati (28 October)
2015
“Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution,” University of
Cincinnati (27 October)
2015
“The Anthropocene at the Intersection of Science and the Humanities,”
Temple University Center for the Humanities (21 October)
2015
“Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution,” Loyola University
(Baltimore)(13 October)
2015
“The Anthropocene Debates,” Yale University (11 September)
2015
“Energy and Revolutions,” Ecological Economics World Congress, Leeds [coauthor] July
2015
“Energy and Revolutions,” World Economic History Congress, Kyoto [co-author]
2015
“Eurasian Environmental History: A Comment” Recovering Forgotten History
Workshop, Warsaw (22 June)
2015
“The Advent of the Anthropocene,” Smithsonian Contemporary History Seminar
Washington DC (21 May)
2015
“Mosquitoes and History,” Zoonotic and Vector-borne Disease Inter-Agency
Working Group, Annapolis MD (15 April)
2015
“Revolutionary Moquitoes in the Americas, 1776-1898” Phi Alpha Theta annual
Conference, Georgetown University (28 March)
2015
“The Advent of the Anthropocene: Was That the Big Story of the 20th Century?”
Boston University (3 March)
2015
“Decay and Decline in Environmental History,” Harvard University (24 February)
2015
“Diseases, Mosquitoes, and Revolution in the Americas” Fordham University
(20 February)
2014
“Ecological Teleconnections and the Industrial Revolution” Harvard University
(14 November)
2014
“Environmental History Today” Brown University (23 October)
2014
“Mosquitoes and Revolutions in the Americas, 1776-1898” Northwestern
University (17 October)
2014
“Environmental History and Environmental Studies,” University of New
Brunswick and St. Thomas University (8 October)
2014
“Writing World History,” University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas
University (8 October)
2014
“Global Environmental History since 1945: Into the Anthropocene?” Royal
Irish Academy, Dublin (18 September)
2014
“How Hungry Mosquitoes Liberated the Americas, 1776-1898,” World History
Association annual meeting, San José, Costa Rica, keynote address (15 July)
2014
“Latin American Environmental History in World Perspective,” World Congress
on Environmental History, Guimaraes, Portugal (9 July)
2014
“The Rise and Fall of Yellow Fever: Panama and the Americas,” Cien Años del
Canal de Panamá conference, Panama City (28 May)
2014
“North American Exceptionalism?: Invasions and Environments over the Very
Longue Durée,” Astor Lecture, Oxford University (8 May)
2014
“How Hungry Mosquitoes Liberated the Americas, 1776-1898,” Burack Lecture,
University of Vermont (28 April)
2014
“Environmental History, Fossil Fuels, and the Anthropocene” Baltimore
Historical Society, Environmental History Series (26 April)
2014
“Iconic Events, Environmental History, and the Eighteenth Century,” Yale
University (18 April)
2014
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes in the Americas,” Lehigh University (7 April)
2014
“Mosquito Revolutions,” Lebanon Valley College (2 April)
2014
“The Ecological Atlantic, 1450-1850,” Library of Congress (6 January)
2013
“Mosquito Ecology and Imperial Politics in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1830,”
Stanford University (2 December)
2013
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes, 1776-1898,” McQuade Distinguished Lecture,
Juniata College (12 November)
2013
“Multiple Anthropocenes and Multiple Critiques,” Rutgers University, Center for
Cultural Analysis (6 November)
2013
“Revolutionary Mosquitos: Malaria, Yellow Fever and Independence in the
Americas” National History Center, Washington History Seminar,
Woodrow Wilson Center (7 October)
2013
“The Industrial Revolution in World History” Mid-Atlantic World History
Association (5 October)
2013
“The Industrial Revolution in Global Environmental History,” Penn State
University (4 October)
2013
“Mosquitoes and Revolution in the Americas,” Hermann Lecture, Penn State
University (3 October)
2013
“The Disease Defense: Yellow Fever, Malaria, and the Spanish Empire in the
Americas, 1650-1830,” Miller Center Distinguished Lectuer, University of
Maryland (30 September)
2013
“When Mosquitoes Made History: The Greater Caribbean, 1600-1900,” Keynote
address, Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (1 June)
2013
“History, Superhistory, World History and Climate Change,” Keynote address,
Lund University, Conference on Critical Perspectives on World History (23 May)
2013
“The Case for the Anthropocene,” University of Chicago Center for
Contemporary Theory (17 May)
2013
“Arnold Toynbee as Environmental Historian,” ASEH Presidential Address,
Toronto (5 April)
2013
“Faruk Tabak as Environmental Historian,” CCAS Annual Symposium,
Georgetown University (21 March)
2013
“The Ecological Atlantic,” Simposio-Dialógo Brasil-EU em Historia Ambientale,
Rio de Janeiro (16 March)
2013
“Global Energy History: The Last 10,000 Years” Harvard University energy
history keynote address (22 February)
2013
“African Infections and American Revolutions, 1780-1900: How Ecological
Change and Hungry Mosquitoes Helped Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar Win
Revolutionary Wars,” Georgia Tech (4 February)
2012
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes,” Franklin and Marshall College (7 November)
2012
“Climate Change and Historians,” Oxford University (27 September)
2012
“Global Environmental History of the Anthropocene,” Carnegie Mellon
University (30 April)
2012
“Industrializing the Planet: Towards A Global Environmental History of the
Industrial Revolution,” University of Kansas (27 April)
2012
“The American Landscape, 1607-2012” Economics University, Warsaw
(via State Department video link, 18 April)
2012
“Mosquito Power,” AHA annual conference, Chicago (January 6)
2012
“World History and Its Publics,” AHA annual conference, Chicago (January 6)
2011
“Mosquito Empires and Revolutionary Fevers in the Greater Caribbean,”
University of Maryland Baltimore County (2 November)
2011
“Environmental History and the Cold War, 1945-91,” Central European
University, Budapest (27 October)
2011
“How Mosquitoes Won the American Revolution,” Central European University,
Budapest (27 October)
2011
“Global Environment and Global Society since 1900,” State University of
Budapest (Eötvös Loránd University) (26 October)
2011
“The Promise and Pitfalls of the Environment as a Category of Historical
Analysis,” University of South Carolina (11 October)
2011
“On Suri’s Liberty’s Surest Guardian,” Woodrow Wilson Center (4 October)
2011
“Empires and Epidemics in the Greater Caribbean in Global Perspective” Ohio
State University (30 September)
2011
“Historical Climatology and Environmental History,” Institut d’Histoire
Allemand, Paris (6 September)
2011
“Making Mosquito Empires,” Global Environments Summer School, Munich
(8 August)
2011
“Towards an Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution,” Rachel
Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (28 July)
2011
“Fukushima and Nuclear Power in the United States,” European Society for
Environmental History annual meeting, Turku, Finland (30 June)
2011
“Mosquito Determinism and Authorial Anxieties,” University of British
Columbia (4 April)
2011
“Ecology, Empire and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914,”
Simon Fraser University (4 April)
2011
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes of the Americas,” Loyola University of Baltimore,
(28 March)
2011
“Caribbean Warfare and Environmental History,” Yesu Persaud Centre for
Caribbean Studies, Warwick University (24 March)
2011
“Global Society and the Global Environment since 1900”
“How Mosquitoes won the American Revolution”
“The Cold War and the Biosphere”
at American University of Cairo (5-9 March)
2011
“Toynbee as Environmental Historian,” American Historical Association meeting
Boston (7 January)
2010
“The Ecological Atlantic, 1492-1850: The Little Ice Age, the Columbian
Exchange Revisited, and Plantation Ecology,” Rachel Carson Center,
Ludwig-Maximiliens Universität, Munich (6 December)
2010
“The Global Environment,” Superior Tribunal de Justiça, Brasilia, (18 November)
2010
“The State and the Biosphere,” First International Conference on the Environment
and the Role of the Modern State, Manaus, Brazil, (17 November)
2010
“Mosquito Empires in the Caribbean,” Loyola University, New Orleans,
(11 November)
2010
“Turbulent Times: Environmental History since 1900,” Loyola University,
New Orleans, (11 November)
2010
“The Globalization of Environmental History, 1990-2010: Problems and
Prospects,” University of Paris/UNESCO conference, Le Tournant Global
des Sciences Sociales, Paris, (24 September)
2010
“World Environmental History in the Age of Fossil Fuels, 1800-2010”
Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne, Paris (23 September)
2010
“Diseases of Empire, Empires of Disease: The Americas, 1492-1900”
Georgetown University/King’s College London conference, (16 September)
2010
“Mosquito Empires,” 79th Anglo-American Conference, Institute for Historical
Research, University of London, (2 July)
2010
“Cold War Environmental History, 1945 to 25,945 A.D.,” University of
Maryland, (7 May)
2010
“Mosquito Empires,” Library of Congress, (26 April)
2010
“Empires of Energy,” Rhodes College, Memphis TN, (22 April)
2010
“Cold War Environmental History,” Institute for Human Ecology, Lund
University, Sweden, (12 April)
2010
“The Industrial Revolution and the Biosphere, 1780-1920,” Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, (1 April)
2010
“Plantation Ecology in the Atlantic World, 1640-1900,” Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, (30 March)
2010
“Cold War Environmental History,” Institut für Soziale Ökologie, Klagenfurt
University, Vienna, (25 March)
2010
“Cold War Environmental History,” Annual Modern History Lecture, University
of Birmingham, UK, (22 March)
2010
“Cold War Environmental History,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, (18 March)
2010
“Challenges of Environmental History,” Harvard University, (19 February)
2009
“The Anthropocene: Are We There Yet?” Library of Congress, (10 December)
(given together with David Christian)
2009
“Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles Quadrimaculatus in the American Revolution,”
Virginia Commonwealth University Alexandrian Society Lecture, (16 November)
2009
“Global Environmental History since 1890,” Dijon, France, Symposium in honor
of Pierre St. Jacob, (12 October)
2009
“Victors and Vectors: Plantation Ecology, Epidemics and Revolutions in the
Greater Caribbean,” University of Delaware, (6 October)
2009
“Turbulent Times: Global Environmental History since 1890,” University of
Delaware, (5 October)
2009
“Empires of Energy,” MIT, (8 May)
2009
“The International System and the Global Environment, 1890-2009,”
Portland State University, (23 April)
2009
“Global Environmental History and the Cold War,” University of Texas, (16
April)
2009
“Revolutionary Mosquitoes,” Johns Hopkins University, (13 April)
2009
“Global Environmental History since 1890,” Xavier University, (29 March)
2009
“The Waning of the Mediterranean and the Waxing of the Epirot Pindos, 16501850,” Bilgi Üniversitesi, Istanbul (6 March )
2009
“Environmental History and the Middle East” roundtable presentation at the
Annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Tallahassee,
FL, (27 February)
2009
“Lord Cornwallis v. Anopheles Quadrimaculatus in the Southern Campaigns of
the American Revolution, 1780-81,” University of Pennsylvania (9 February)
2009
“How Yellow Fever Saved the Spanish Empire in the Americas…and Then
Destroyed It,” University of Maryland (5 February)
2009
“The International Economy and the Global Environment since 1890,”
The World Bank (14 January)
2008
“Stages of the Anthropocene: Assessing the Human Impact on the Earth System,”
American Geophysical Union annual meeting [with Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen,
Kathy Hibbard]
2008
“The Ecological Atlantic, 1450-1850,” conference on Atlantic history hosted
by Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University Press (14 November)
2008
“Environmentalism, the Environment, and International Society in the
1970s,” Harvard University, Weatherhead Center (10 October)
2008
“Industrialization and the Environment,” Centrum för miljö- och
utvecklingsstudier (CEMUS), Uppsala University (3 October)
2008
“Urbanization and the Environment,” Centrum för miljö- och
utvecklingsstudier (CEMUS), Uppsala University (3 October)
2008
“Environmental History and Social History,” Keynote at conference
‘Terrains Communs, Regards Croisés,’ Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris (13 September)
2008
“Smallpox vs. Malaria in the American Revolution, 1775-81,”
Sigma Xi Science Honor Society, Georgetown University (22 April)
2008
“Empires of Energy: Fossils Fuels and Geopolitics 1580-2050,” Hooker
Lecture, McMaster University (17 April)
2008
“Empires of Fever: Tropical Disease and the Caribbean, 1640-1940,”
McMaster University (18 April)
2008
“Global Environmental History since 1900,” Consiglio Nazionale di Richerche,
Naples, (18 January)
2008
“Yellow Fever in the Americas,” Consiglio Nazionale di Richerche, Naples,
(17 January)
2008
“A Turbulent Century,” International Science Fair, Rome (16 January)
2008
“Energy and Environment in World History,” AHA, Washington DC (3 January)
2007
“Environmental History of the Americas,” Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
(15 November)
2007
“The Cold War and the Biosphere,” Harvard University (24 October)
2007
“Gigantic Follies? The Space Age in Historical Perspective,” NASA Conference
for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Space Flight, Washington DC (22 October)
2007
“Cities and the Biosphere,” City of Amsterdam, Department of Urban Planning
(16 October)
2007
“World Environmental History: The First 100,000 Years,” Northwest World
History Association, Washington State University (12 October)
2007
“Jared Diamond Revisited,” Amerind Foundation Seminar, Dragoon, AZ
(10 October)
2007
“The Cold War and the Biosphere,” Universidad Internacional Meléndez Pelayo,
Santander, Spain (10 July)
2007
“Webs of History: The First 50,000 Years,” Leiden University (9 June)
2007
“Global Environmental History: Ecology and Geopolitics,” Leiden University
(6 June)
2007
“Caribbean Sieges and Yellow Fever: Cartagena, 1741 and Havana, 1762,”
Society for Military History annual meeting, Frederick MD (21 April)
2007
“International Rivalry and the Environment since 1914,” Towson University,
Andrews Lecture (17 April)
2007
“Climate Change and American Security: The Argument from History,”
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, US State Dept NIC Conference
(13 April)
2007
“The Environmental History of the Cold War.” Woodrow Wilson Center
(14 March)
2007
“A Tale of Two Catastrophes: Epidemics and Settlement Schemes at Darien
(1698-1700) and Kourou (1763-65)” York University conference on: Disease
In World Environmental History” (10 March)
2007
“Malaria and the American Revolution,” Conference on Infectious Disease,
Georgetown University (26 February)
2007
“Environmental History and Christof Mauch,” German Historical Institute
(24 February)
2007
“Environmental History and the International System,” Denver University
(12 February), Marsico Lecture
2007
“Biocultural Lability in the Island Pacific,” Denver University (12 February)
2007
“The Green Revolution and the Cold War,” American Historical Association,
annual meeting, Atlanta (7 January)
2006
“Environmental History in General and in Asia,” International Society for
Ecological Economics annual meeting, New Delhi (18 December)
2006
“Promise and Perils in Teaching World History,” U.S. Naval Academy
(15 November)
2006
“The Frontier Zone between Public and Private Natural Resources,”
Yale University (27 October)
2006
“A Tale of Two Catastrophes in the Atlantic World: Darien (1698-1700) and
Kourou (1763-65),” Duke University (29 September)
2006
“Global Environmental History since 1890,” University of Bologna (22
September)
2006
“Environmental History and World History,” University of California
Berkeley (24 July)
2006
“Energy and the Twentieth Century,” University of Leiden (10 June)
2006
“Energy and the Environmental History of the Twentieth Century,”
University of Illinois (19 April)
2006
“Global History and Environmental History,” University of Illinois
(20 April)
2006
“Empires of Energy,” University of Akron (4 April)
2006
“Plantation Ecology in the Greater Caribbean,” University of Akron
(5 April)
2006
“What Is National in Environmental History?,” Roundtable at ASEH,
St. Paul MN, (2 April)
2006
“Empires of Energy: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics since 1580”
Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an (18 March)
2006
“Environmental History, 1850-2050,” Beijing University (16 March)
2006
“World History and Big History,” Beijing University (16 March)
2006
Empires of Energy: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics since 1580,” Beijing University
(14 March)
2006
“Bugs, Beasts and Human History: Adjusting to Global Environmental Change,
1850-2050,” Stetson University (19 Feburary)
2005
“Mappae Mundi and Historical Sociology,” Social Science History Association
annual meeting, Portland, OR (5 November)
2005
“Global Environmental Change and the Future of Medicine,” American Society
for Bioethics and the Humanities conference, Washington DC (22 October)
2005
“Ice, Dirt, and Don Worster,” Conference: Positionner le Québec dans l’histoire
environnementale mondiale, Montreal, (22 September)
2005
“Fossil Fuels and World Politics since 1580,” Keynote Address, VI Nordic
Environmental History Conference, Turku, Finland (16 September)
2005
“America’s Place in the Human Web,” NEH Summer Seminar, Library of
Congress (11 July)
2005
“A History of Ecological Sustainability: The Role of the State,” IV Encuentro
Salamanca, Políticas de la Tierra, Salamanca (23 June)
2005
“World History Research and Teaching,” Global Studies Conference, University
of Illinois, (19 June)
2005
“Social, Economic and Political Forces in Environmental Change: Decadal Scale”
96th Dahlem Workshop, Berlin, (12-17 June)
2005
“Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics since 1600,” American Society for Environmental
History, annual meetings, Houston, (19 March)
2005
“Environment and Society since 1890: A Global Perspective,” Keynote
Address, American Bar Association, Energy, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, annual meeting, Keystone, CO (10 March)
2005
“International Political Economy, 1890-1945,” Koç University (Istanbul)
(1 March)
2005
“International Political Economy since 1945,” Koç University (Istanbul)
(3 March)
2005
“Global Society and the Global Environment since 1890,” University of Scranton
(14 February)
2004
“Dark Matter and World History,” New Jersey Council for History Education,
Princeton, New Jersey (3 December)
2004
“Global Ecosystem Change in the Last Two Centuries,” Bangkok, IUCN
Congress (18 November)
2004
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics in the Greater Caribbean,” University of Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies (15 October)
2004
“Weaving the Human Web,” Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki (14 Oct.)
2004
“A Very Brief History of the Atmosphere” Fulbright Alumni Association,
Embassy of Switzerland, Washington (29 September)
2004
“Environmental Conservation and Environmental History: A Global Perspective
on the Last 200 Years,” Society for Conservation Biology, plenary address,
Columbia University (30 July)
2004
“Historical Roots of the Crisis in the Moroccan Rif,” Mediterranean Mountain
Forum, Barcelona (16 June)
2004
“Mediterranean Mountain History,” Mediterranean Mountain Forum, keynote
address (15 June)
2004
“America and the Global Environment in the 20th and 21st Centuries” Florence
(11 June)
2004
“Recent Planetary Environmental History,” Eindhoven Technical University (13
May)
2004
“The International System and the Global Environment in the Long Twentieth
Century,” Institute for Environmental Security Conference, The Hague (9 May)
2004
“The Environmental Impact of the American Military since 1789" German
Historical Institute (7 May)
2004
“Environmental History of the Modern World” Earth Week Symposium Keynote
University of Maryland (23 April)
2004
“Something New Under the Sun” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
(22 March)
2004
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1825"
University of Pittsburgh (3 March)
2004
“The Human Web” George Washington University (27 February)
2004
“Borders and Boundaries of Environmental History” University of Wisconsin
(25 February)
2004
“Communications Regimes and Ecological Regimes in World History”
AHA Annual Meeting, Washington DC (10 January)
2004
“The Human Web” World History Association Luncheon Keynote,
AHA Annual Meeting, Washington DC (10 January)
2003
“The Shape of European Environmental History,” Georgetown University
CEGES Program (3 November)
2003
“Global Environment and International Society since 1900,” National Institutes of
Health (29 October)
2003
“The Human Web,” Yale University (21 October)
2003
“Yellow Jack in the Caribbean, 1640-1830,” University of Michigan (4 October)
2003
“Something New Under the Sun,” Center for Business and Policy, Stockholm (24
September)
2003
“Global Environmental History,” Uppsala University (23 September)
2003
“Sweetness and Sickness: Environmental and Epidemiological Landscapes of
Sugar in the Caribbean, 1640-1900,” Conference on World Systems Theory and
Global Environmental History, Lund (Sweden), 22 September
2003
“Global Environment and Global Society since 1900,” National Science
Foundation (17 September)
2003
“Transoceanic Biological Exchange in World History” Library of Congress,
Washington DC (23 July)
2003
“The Environmental Impact of the American Military since 1789,” Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, Washington DC (6
June)
2003
“The International System and Global Environmental Change since 1900,” Brunel
University, UK (2 June)
2003
“Emerging Pathogens: A Historian’s Perspective” American Society of
Microbiologists, Washington (20 May)
2003
“Great Power Rivalry and the Environment since 1900,” XXVII Political
Economy of the World-System Conference, Washington (25 April)
2003
“Mosquitoes and Fevers in the History of the Americas since 1600" American
Society for Environmental History meetings, Providence (27 March)
2003
“Sweetness and Sickness: Sugar, Mosquitoes, and Empire in the Americas,
1640-1900,” MIT Şahin Lecture (4 March)
2003
“The Human Web,” Institute for Historical Research, University of London (24
February)
2003
“Historical Constraints on the Environmental Future,” Keynote Address,
Worldwatch Institute Annual Board of Directors Conference (29 January)
2003
“Environment and Society in the 20th Century,” EPA (27 January)
2002
“Environmental History and the Environment” Board of Directors of
Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, Washington (12 November)
2002
“Mosquito Coasts: Caribbean Sugar and Yellow Fever,” Duke University
(5 November)
2002
“Forests and Warfare in World History,” Forest History Society
Durham, NC (6 November), Day Lecture
2002
“The Environmental Challenge: A Historical Perspective,” (26 October)
George Washington University Honors Symposium
2002
“Theses on Radkau,” German Historical Institute (10 October)
2002
“The Urban Turn: Cities and Global Environmental History since 1800,”
Keynote address, Massachusetts Historical Society environmental history seminar
(8 October)
2002
“Urban Water History,” Coast Guard Academy (7 October)
2002
“The History of Marine Oil Pollution,” Coast Guard Academy (7 October)
2002
“International History and Environmental History,” Creighton Lecture, University
of Toronto and Keynote Address, Canadian Historical Association Annual
Meeting (28 May)
2002
“Biological Globalization with Special Reference to the Black Sea,” Koç
University, Istanbul (18 April)
2002
“World Environmental History,” Koç University, Istanbul (16 April)
2002
“Environment and Population, 1950-2050,” Population Council and Rockefeller
Foundation conference on political economy of world population, 1950-2050
Bellagio, Italy ( 9 April)
2002
“Yellow Fever and Caribbean Geopolitics,” American Society for Environmental
History meetings, Denver (22 March)
2002
“Something New Under the Sun,” University of Dayton (1 March)
2001
“Environmental Change in the Modern World,” National Press Foundation
(16 December)
2001
“Something New Under the Sun,” Washington College (1 November)
2001
“El sistema internacional y cambio ambiental en el siglo XX,” Segundo
Encuentro entre Historia y Ambiente, Huesca, Spain (24 October)
2001
“Something New Under the Sun: The International System and Environmental
Change since 1900,” College of Charleston (8 October)
2001
“Environmental Challenges and Security,” Center for Peace and Security Studies
Georgetown University (19 September)
2001
“Resource Exploitation and Over-exploitation: A Look at the 20th Century,”
International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology, Göttingen University,
(18 July)
2001
“Something New Under the Sun,” Worldwatch Institute (20 June)
2001
“Resource Wars and Environmental History,” Institute on World Security Affairs,
Amherst College (12 June)
2001
“The Black Sea Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,”
Georgetown University Black Sea Workshop (4 May)
2001
“Vectors of History: Yellow Fever and the Geopolitics of the American Tropics,”
University of New Hampshire (27 April)
2001
“Globalization in Historical Perspective,” World Bank Responsible Globalization
Seminar (19 April)
2001
“Something New Under the Sun,” University of California-Berkeley,
also at:
UC-Santa Cruz,
University of the Pacific (11-16 April)
2001
“Environmental History, Western Civilization, and Naval History,” U.S. Naval
Academy (20 March)
2001
“Environment and Society in the Americas since 1900,” Library of Congress and
Woodrow Wilson Center Conference on Public Policy in the 21st Century (23
February)
2001
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics,” Yale University (9 February)
2001
“Something New Under the Sun,” World Bank Development Seminar (8
February)
2001
“Vectors of Empire: Mosquitoes, Fevers, and Empires in Tropical America, 16001900,” George Washington University (26 January)
2000
“Something New Under the Sun,” U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis (5 December)
2000
“Something New Under the Sun,” Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
(16 November)
2000
“Something Old Under the Sun: Life on Earth in the 20th Century,”
Canon Lecture, National Parks Science Scholars Program, Williamsburg, VA
(22 October)
2000
“Something New Under the Sun,” Georgetown University Center for the
Environment (10 October)
2000
“Biological Exchange and Biological Invasion in World History,” 19th
International Congress of the Historical Sciences, Oslo (6-13 August)
2000
“The American Century and the Global Environment,” University of Otago 35th
Foreign Policy School, Dunedin, NZ (1 July)
2000
“Biological Exchange in World History,” New Zealand Association of University
Women, Christchurch, NZ (22 June)
2000
“20th-Century World Environmental History,” History Departmental Seminar,
Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ
also delivered to:
History Department, University of Otago (3 July)
Geography Department, University of Canterbury (7 June)
2000
“The International System and the World Environment since 1900,” Political
Science Department Seminar, Canterbury University, Christchurch NZ (May 31)
2000
“Vectors of History: Mosquitoes and Politics in the Caribbean, 1600-1900,”
University of Canterbury (14 June)
2000
“Something New Under the Sun,” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs, New York (20 April)
2000
“Something New Under the Sun: Contours of 20th-century World Environmental
History,” American Society for Environmental History, Tacoma (16-19 March)
2000
“The World According to Jared Diamond,” American Historical Association,
Chicago (6-9 January).
1999
“Biological Exchange in World History,” Library of Congress (7-8 July)
1999
“Hydraulic Regimes and Colonial Politics in North Africa since 1830,” American
Society for Environmental History, Tuscon (14-18 April)
1999
“Environment and Empire in the American Tropics,” International Seminar on
History and Environment, Funchal, Madeira (Portugal)[5-9 April]
1999
“Environment and Society: The Last Millennium and the Next,” St. Mary’s
College (24 March)
1999
“Environment, Epidemics and Empire in the Caribbean, 1600-1825,” University
of Virginia (5 March)
1996
“Water, Energy and the Twentieth Century,” University of Amsterdam,
School of Social Science Research (9 December)
1996
"Humankind and the Hydrosphere since 1900," at the Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington DC (24 October)
1996
"Preliminary Perspectives on a Partial Magellan Exchange," delivered at Second
Conference on Pacific Rim History, Melbourne (5-7 July)
1996
"Environmental Change and the Geopolitics of Tropical America, 1600-1825,"
delivered at Conference on Humans and Ecosystems Before Global Development,
York University, Toronto (April 18-21)
1996
"Landscapes and History in the Mountains of the Mediterranean," Garrod Lecture,
Cambridge University, Department of Archaeology (29 February)
also delivered at:
Southampton University (28 February)
University College, London (27 Feb.)
1996
"Environment and Economy in the High Pindos (Greece): Reflections of a
Transhumant Historian," Sheffield University, Center for Aegean Archaeology
(26 February)
1995
"Tragedies of Privatization," SSRC Open Meeting on Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change at Duke University (3 June)
1995
"World Environmental History Since 1945," George Mason University (8
February)
1994
"Another Unsustainable Century: Global Environmental History of the Twentieth
Century," University of Wisconsin-Madison (6 December)
1994
"Teaching World Environmental History," keynote address to World History
Association, Aspen, CO (8 October)
1994
"Marriage Patterns and World Economic History," 11th International Economic
History Congress, Milan (14 September)
1994
"Tragedies of Privatization: Liberalism, Property, and Environmental Change in
Spain and Italy, 1800-1910," SSRC conference on Property Rights and
Environmental Change, Stowe VT, (16-21 August)
1994
"British Imperialism and Pacific Ecology," German Historical Institute,
conference on Pacific imperialism, Kloster Andechs, Bavaria, (16-18 June)
1994
"Mediterranean Ecology and Ottoman History," Bilkent University,Ankara, (2
April)
1994
"Survival of the Dirtiest? International Systems and Environmental Change in
History," Stetson University, (10 January)
1993
"Environmental and Comparative History" and "Environmental History of the
20th Century," lectures at Duke University, (9-10 November)
1993
"An Overview of the Environmental History of the Island Pacific," World History
Association meetings, Honolulu, (24 June)
1992
"Environment, War, and the International System: A Historical Perspective,"
Royal Institute of International Affairs, Timaru Branch,New Zealand,
(13 November)
1992
"The Environmental History of the Americas, 1492-1992," Massey University
(NZ) September 1992; and Otago University (NZ) (October)
1992
"Environmental History of the 20th Century World,"
Canterbury University (NZ) September 1992; and
Otago University Geography Seminar, November 1992
1992
"World History and Alfred Crosby," delivered at World History Association
meetings, Philadelphia
1992
"Environmental History and the Current Crises," delivered to the EPA Future
Studies Group, in Washington, DC
1992
"Population, Markets, and Environmental Change in the Alpujarra (Spain) and the
Rif (Morocco), 1570-1990," New England Historical Association meetings
1992
"Global Environmental History in the 20th Century," Carnegie Mellon University,
Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Global Change Unit
1990
"Deforestation and Fuelwood Supply in Mountain Areas of the Mediterranean,
1800-1950," Tenth International Economic History Congress. Section C2:
Energy and History. Leuven, Belgium
1990
"Jamaican-Cuban Interaction in the Eighteenth Century," American Studies
Association meetings, New Orleans [with Alan Karras]
1989
"Deforestation and Peasant Exodus in the Epirot Pindus, 1800-1950,"
Mediterranea XII Conference. Athens, Greece
1989
"Global Deforestation," MSFS Key Global Issues Seminar, Georgetown
University
1987
"Mediterranean Deforestation since 1820," Forest History Conference, Duke
University
1985
"Mountain Peasants in the Mediterranean World," NEH seminar at Columbia
University
1985
"Cuban Contraband and Spanish Mercantilism, 1700-1770," Southern Historical
Association meetings, Houston
1984
"The Ecological History of Brazil since 1500," American Historical Association
meetings, Chicago
1983
"The Rise of Buenos Aires and the Felling of Parana Pine, 1900-1980," NEH
Conference on Deforestation in the Twentieth Century, National Humanities
Center
1983
"The Ecological Basis of Warfare in the Caribbean, 1700-1804," Tenth Brown
Conference, University of Alabama
PANEL DISCUSSANT
2016
Rio Doce (Brazil) conference, Georgetown University (19 November)
2016
The Anthropocene, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (26 March)
2015
Eurasian Environmental History, Polish History Museum, Warsaw (22 June)
2015
The History Manifesto [commentary], Woodrow Wilson Center (20 April)
2014
Historicizing Climate Change, Princeton University (2 May)
2014
History in and as Health Crises, University of Vermont (28 April)
2013
Environmental NGOs and Development Aid, UVa Miller Center (9 May)
[comment on presentation by S. Macekura]
2013
Climate History, ESEH Munich (23 August)
2013
Climate and Atlantic History, AHA New Orleans (4 January)
2012
Natural Resources: Blessing or Curse, Yale University (25 February)
2010
New Perspectives on World History, AHA, San Diego (7 January)
2008
Closing the Passion Gap in Graduate Education, AHA, Washington DC (4
January)
2006
The Cold War in the American West Panel, ASEH, St. Paul (31 March)
2004
Publishing in Environmental History Workshop, MIT STS Program (3 October)
2004
Young Scholars Forum, German Historical Institute (27-29 May)
2004
“Three Atlantic Worlds in the 1760s,” Lost Colonies Conference, McNeil Center
for Early American History, University of Pennsylvania (27 March)
2003
“Law and the Colonial Order in World History,” World History Association,
Atlanta GA (28 June)
2003
“German Environmental History in European Perspective,” Harvard University
(16-17 May)
2003
“The Real Environmental Crisis” Woodrow Wilson Center (7 May)
2002
Communications and History, Director’s Seminar with Al Gore, Kennedy School
of Government, Belfer Center, Harvard University (18 October)
2002
Global Governance, Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto (29 May)
2002
Fire in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association, Toronto (27 May)
2002
Growth and Interaction in the World Economy, 1000-2000 AD, Harvard
University (24-25 May)
2002
Climate and History, Director’s Seminar with Al Gore, Kennedy School of
Government, Belfer Center, Harvard University (26 April)
2002
American Society for Environmental History, Denver (23 March)
2002
American Historical Association meeting, panel on Something New Under the
Sun (San Francisco, 4 January)
2001
American Society for Environmental History, Durham
1998
NASA workshop on very long-term history (Washington, DC, George
Washington University Space Policy Institute, July 21-22)
1998
SSRC workshop on Social Science Issues and the Aral Sea Environment
(Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 19-21 May)
1995
SSRC Open Meeting on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (14 June)
1994
SSRC workshop: Landed Property Rights (Stowe, VT August 17-21 1994)
1993
SSRC workshop: Property Rights and Environmental Change (Salter Path, NC, 811 September)
1993
American Society for Environmental History meetings, Pittsburgh (two sessions)
1991
Global Change Institute, Global Land Use/Land Cover Change, Snowmass, CO
1990
AHA (New York) commentator on environmental history panel, (December 29)
1990
Stockholm Environmental Institute Policy Exercise on global warming and
development, 1990-2050, Bad Bleiberg, Austria, (September 3-7)
1986
Library of Congress/Johns Hopkins University Conference (Washington, DC)
Port Cities in the Atlantic World
1986
African Studies Association meeting (Madison, WI), Angola in World History
6. Teaching
CLASSES (* = graduate level)
2017
World History since 1400
2016
*Environmental History of the Atlantic Basin
2014; 2017 Fundamentals of Grand Strategy
2011; 2013 Climate and Society: Past, Present, and Future
2009*Environmental History Seminar
2008
*Global and Comparative History (core colloquium for MA students)
2008
*Global Environmental History Seminar
2007
*Environmental History of the African Atlantic
2004-6
*History Core Colloquium (for incoming Ph.D. students)
2005
*Approaches to World History
2004
*European Environmental History
2002-6,2012 World History to 1500
2001
*Environmental History: Issues and Literature
1999
Environment and Empire since 1750
1999-2008 World History Since 1400
1999*History of Globalization [for Int’l Affairs Master’s students]
1998-99
Global Ecology and World History since 1850
1996
*Europe, Empire, Environment, 1750-1950
1995
Environmental History of the Americas
1995-7
*History of International Relations since WWII
1994
*20th-Century Environmental History
1994
Environmental History of the Mediterranean World [GU in Alanya, Turkey]
1994
Geopolitical History of Anatolia Since 1453 [GU program in Alanya]
1990-5
History and Politics of the Biosphere
1990-2
History of the Atlantic World, 1450-1900
1990
Mediterranean Europe since 1800
1985-95
Empire and Independence in the Modern World
1985-98
*History of Intersocietal Relations [graduate class on international history]
1985-89
1983-85
1983-85
1983-85
1983-85
1982-83
African history
Russian history since Peter the Great
German history 1914-1945
European social history 1750-1950
European civilization
world history
TUTORIALS
2017
2016
2011
2011
2009
2005
2005
2004
2003
1995
1993
1991
1990
1990
1990
*Disease in Global History
*Environmental History of Latin American Mining
History of Environmental Education (Liberal Studies Program)
*Oil, the Middle East, and the World since 1945
Environmental History (one undergraduate, one graduate)
*Indian Ocean and East Asia in World History
*Global Environmental History
*History and Politics of Military Conscription
*European Environmental History
*Environmental History of the Mississippi Basin
*Environmental History of the Americas
*Greece and Turkey since 1821
*European environmental issues [MSFS]
Environment and international aid [SFS]
*Spain and Italy since 1900 [GW graduate student]
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS ADVISING
2016-17
2016-17
2015-16
2014-15
2012-13
2010-11
2004
2003-4
1999-2000
1995-96
1995-96
1994-95
1993-94
1991-92
1991-92
1991-92
1990-91
Tobacco Plantations and Slave Health [history honors]
History of the National Zoo [history honors]
Belizean Agriculture and Climate Change [STIA]
US Army and Seminole Wars [history honors]
Environmental History of the Connecticut River [American Studies]
The Oil Crisis and the Environmental Movement, 1973-79 [history honors]
History of the Chestnut Blight [American Studies]
History of American Alpinism [American Studies]
Spanish Colonization of Florida and Yucatan [history]
Battle of Crete, 1940 [history]
Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations [history]
Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1892-1942 [history]
Environmental Impact of Coca [LASP honors thesis]
Mediterranean Action Plan [SFS Honors thesis]
Greek Agriculture and the EC [GW master's thesis]
Kurdistan and the Great Powers [SFS Honors thesis]
De Gaulle and Algeria [SFS Honors thesis]
1990-91
Aid and Environment in Kenya [African Studies]
DOCTORAL THESIS ADVISING
201420122012201120102009-16
2008-16
2007-14
2005-2013
2003-2011
1996-2005
1996-2003
J. Perry, Eucalytpus in the Mediterranean
F. Hussein, The Ottoman Euphrates
C. Alejandrino, China and Typhoons
R. Mellor, Uranium Mining in the Cold War
M. Denning, Diplomacy and Environment on the Lower Great Lakes
G. Pitts, Environmental History of Lebanon, 1915-1970 (post-doc NC State)
A. Roe, Into Soviet Nature: National Parks, 1953-90 (post-doc William & Mary)
E. Stewart Mauldin, Environmental History of the South, 1840-80 (Samford U)
M. Landry, Europe’s Battery, 1880-1940 (University of New Orleans)
P. Engelke, Planning Munich, 1960-80 (Atlantic Council)
G. Vrtis, Front Range of the Rocky Mountains (Carleton College)
L. Ivey, Immigrants and Environment in the Pajaro Valley (Cal State East Bay)
1995-
~30 dissertation committees as second or third reader
7. Academic Service
GEORGETOWN
2017
2016-17
2016-17
2016-17
2016
2016
20162016
2016
2015201520152015
2014-15
2014-15
201420142014-15
2013-14
2013
2013
2013
SFS committee on teaching loads
Graduate School committee on MA in infectious diseases
selection committee for Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professorships
economic history search committee (chair)
Classics Dept promotion committee (Catherine Keesling)
SFS promotion committee (Joseph Sassoon) chair
Graduate Studies Committee (History dept)
Morris Medal Committee (History dept)
Marshall interviews
GEI subcommittee on space
GEI subcommittee on finance and governance
GEI senior scientist search committee
SFS promotion committee (Mark Giordano) chair
School of Foreign Service Dean Seach Committee
Environmental History Search (chair)
Georgetown Environmental Initiative Steering Committee
McGhee Center Steering Committee
Boren Fellowships review panel
Graduate School Dean Search Committee (chair) [while on sabbatical]
Morris Medal committee (senior thesis prize) chair
Truman Fellowships, faculty review panel
Kunin Award (for Croatian Catholic students) faculty review panel
2012-13
2012-13
2011-12
2011
2011
2011
2010-11
2010-11
2010-11
2010
2009-10
2009-10
2009-10
2009-10
200920092006-14
20082009-11
2009
2009
2008-9
2008-9
2008
2008
2008-11
2007-8
2007-8
2007-8
2007-8
2006-7
2006-7
2006-8
2006-7
2006-9
20052005-6
20052005-6
2005
2004-7
2004-11
20032003-14
2003-4
2002-3
ITEL (Provost’s committee in technology-enhanced learning)
African history search committee
SFS science and international affairs search committee (while on sabbatical)
SFS and History promotion committee (Carol Benedict)
SFS and History tenure committee (Michael David-Fox) chair
SFS and History tenure committee (Mustafa Aksakal)
Ertegun Chair in Turkish Studies search committee
Russian history search committee
German history search committee
SFS and History promotion committee for John Tutino (chair)
Ertegun Chair in Turkish Studies search committee (chair)
Interim Director, Mortara Center for International Affairs
CGES/History Department, German history search committee
SFS Dean Search Committee
International History Seminar, co-director
Georgetown Institute for Global History, steering committee
Boren/NSEP Scholarships faculty advisor
GU Fulbright/Marshall/Rhodes Interview Panels
GUROP Summer Projects (reviewer)
History Department, Mentoring Committee
SFS and History Promotion Committee for E. Langer (chair)
Dean of the College search committee (chair) [while on sabbatical]
Berkley Center faculty recruitment committee
Helde/Ruedy/Brown Prize committees (chair)
Morris Medal Committee (History Dept)
SFS Development Certificate Steering Committee
African Studies Review Committee
History Dept promotion committee (Games) chair
Environmental History search committee (chair) [while on sabbatical]
SFS STIA search committee [while on sabbatical]
SFS promotion committee (Millward) chair
SFS promotion committee (Beach) chair
university committee on rank and tenure standards
South Asian history search (chair)
Ruedy/Helde/Astarita Prize committees (chair)
MSFS ExCo
SFS ExCo
Mortara Center ExCo
Krogh Professorship Search Committee
Ruedy/Helde prize committee (History Dept)
Director of Graduate Studies (History Dept)
Alanya McGhee Center Steering Committee (chair)
Planning Committee (History Dept)
Graduate Studies Committee (History Dept)
SFS Admissions Committee
Luce Professorship Search Committee
2002-3
2002-3
2001-2
2001-2
2001
2000-01
2000-01
2000-01
2000-01
2000-01
2000-01
2000-01
200020002000-02
2000-01
2000-01
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999-2000
1999
1998-9
1998-9
1998-9
1998-9
1998-9
1997-8
1997-8
19971997
1997-2000
1996
1995-7
1995-96
1995-96
1995-96
1995-96
1994-95
1994-95
MSFS Executive Council
SFS tenure committee (Prof. McKittrick)
Latin American History search committee [while on sabbatical]
STIA and Luce Professorship search committee [while on sabbatical]
World History Workshop (Director)
SFS Executive Council
MSFS Executive Council
Graduate School Executive Council
Dean of the Graduate School search committee (chair)
Georgetown University Press Director search committee
International Politics search committee
Athletic Department Review Committee
STIA Steering Committee
GU Center for the Environment, Steering Committee
Athletics Advisory Board
History Department Self-Study development sub-committee (chair)
GU Self-Study Missions and Goals sub-committee
SFS Executive Council
MSFS Executive Council
Graduate School Executive Council
Athletic Department Review Committee
GU Mission Statement Drafting Committee
African politics search committee (SFS)
History Department Planning Committee
History Department and SFS freshman history course planning committee
History Department Seminar, Co-ordinator
Georgetown Third Century Campaign Seminar, New York
Ertegun chair in Turkish Studies search committee (SFS)
US Political History Search Committee
SFS Executive Council
History Department, speakers committee (chair)
SFS History Curriculum sub-Committee (chair)
Ottoman History Search Committee
Latin American History Search Committee
Standing Committee in Intersocietal History, chair
CCAS Turkish History and Language search committee
Middle East Studies Center (Title VI) Advisory Committee
SFS Turkish Studies Review (chair)
History Dept Graduate Studies Committee
modern Turkish studies search committee (chair)
intersocietal history search committee (chair)
African history search committee
GU Executive Vice-President search committee
East Asian history search committee
African history search committee (chair)
1994-95
1994-95
1994-95
1993-95
1993-6
1993-4
1993-6
1993
1991-3
1991-92
1991-92
1991-92
1991-92
1990-91
1989-91
1989-91
1988-96
1989-91
1988-89
1988-89
1988-89
1988-94
1988-89
1986-89
1988-89
1988-89
1988-89
1988
1985-87
1986-87
1987-88
1986
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Arab international relations search
committee
GU SFS faculty seminar in international population, health, and environment (codirector)
SFS Curriculum Committee (chair)
SFS Curriculum Committee
SFS Executive Council
History Department Quigley Lectureship Committee
Georgetown Main Campus Planning Committee
SFS Environmental Studies search committee
History dept research and resources committee
President's committee on intercultural education
Middle States Self-Study working committee II on intellectual atmosphere
Latin American history search committee
SFS Comparative literature search committee (chair)
SFS Comparative literature search committee
German history search committee
SFS Executive Committee
Co-ordinator, Empire and Independence
Co-ordinator, History Department work in progress seminar
SFS undergraduate admissions
African history search committee (chair)
SFS Alanya villa resident director search (chair)
SFS Alanya villa executive committee
MSFS core curriculum review committee
MSFS Chicago area recruiting
History department, Mediterranean Europe search
History department, research funds committee
Georgetown University Development Society, faculty advisor
History department, outside speaker and department seminar co-ordinator
MSFS admissions
MSFS curriculum committee
US Diplomatic History search committee
SFS Regional and Comparative Studies Curriculum Review
GOUCHER COLLEGE
1983-85
Goucher College: faculty salaries committee; co-ordinator campus film society;
assistant lacrosse coach
8. Professional Service
c. 130 BOOK REVIEWS IN:
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Agricultural History
American Historical Review
American Scientist
Americas
Annals of American Geographers
Anthropocene Review
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d‘histoire
Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende
Gesellschaftsforschung
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Economic Geography
Environment
Environmental History
Florida Historical Quarterly
French History
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Geschichte Transnational
Global Environment
Hispanic American Historical Review
Historia Agrária
International History Review
Isis
Itinerario
Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte
Journal of American History
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Civil War Studies
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Levantine Studies
Journal of Modern History
Journal of Social History
Journal of Southern History
Journal of World History
Medical History
Mountain Research and Development
Nature
Pacific Historical Review
Population Studies
Population and Development Review
Revista Agrária
Science
William and Mary Quarterly
Wilson Quarterly
ELECTRONIC FORUMS
H-Net
H-Environment
H-Atlantic
Public Books
Yale Global
Washington Independent Review of Books
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
Baltimore Sun
The Book Review (New Delhi)
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
History Today
Public Books
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS FOR:
JOURNALS
Agricultural History
American Historical Review
American Quarterly
Anthropocene Review
Asian Review of World Histories
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Critical Historical Studies
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Conservation Biology
Diplomatic History
Ekonomska e Ekohistorija
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Environmental History Review
Environmental History
Environment & History
Environmental Review
Forest and Conservation History
French Historical Studies
Geografisker Annaler
Global Environment
Historia Agrária
Journal of Forest History
Journal of Global History
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Modern History
Industrial Ecology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Revista Agrária
Social History of Medicine
South African History Journal
Technology and Culture
William and Mary Quarterly
Canadian Historical Association Booklet series
PRESSES
Basil Blackwell
Berghahn Books
Cambridge University Press
Continuum Books
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ohio University Press
Oregon State University Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave-Macmillan
Polity Press
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Rowman & Littlefield
Rutgers University Press
SUNY-Albany Press
Time-Life Books
United Nations University Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Hawaii Press
University of Michigan Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Toronto Press
University of Washington Press
University of Virginia Press
Westview Press
Wiley-Blackwell
Yale University Press
GRANT PROPOSALS REVIEWED FOR:
Academy of Finland (Finland)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
Arts and Humanities Research Board (U.K.)
Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation)
European Research Council
European Science Foundation
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton [~9 years])
FWF (~Austrian NSF)
Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Sweden)
Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (Ireland)
Leverhulme Trust
MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program
Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Humanities Center
National Science Foundation
National Research, Development, Innovation Office (NKFIH Hungary)
NWO (Netherlands Scientific Research Council)
Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies [~5 years]
Sloan Foundation
Social Science and Humanities Rersearch Council (Canada)
Swedish Research Council (Linnaeus Grants, Sweden)
Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
Woodrow Wilson Center
APPOINTMENT, TENURE OR PROMOTION REVIEWS FOR:
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Australian National University
Bates College
Boise State University
Boston University
Cambridge University (U.K.)
Colby College (2)
Colgate University
Cornell University
Emory University
Florida State University
Harvard University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
Millsaps College
New York University
North Texas University
Notre Dame University
Ohio State University (2)
Oxford University
St. Mary’s College
Stirling University (U.K.)
Temple University
Texas Tech University
Tufts University
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
University of California-Berkeley (2)
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of Cincinnati (2)
University of Delaware (2)
University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
University of Hull (U.K.)
University of Kansas (2)
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota (2)
University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Carolina
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
University of Western Ontario (2)
Vanderbilt University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Yale University (3)
EXTERNAL EXAMINER OR OUTSIDE READER ON DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Australian National University (2)
Columbia University
George Washington University
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Temple University (2)
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES AND BOARDS
2015
2015
SSRC Climate Change Working Group
Search Committee, Editor of The American Historical Review
2014-
Chair, International Advisory Board, Peking University Environmental History
Center
2013Board, International Congress of Environmental History Organizations
2013-14
Chair, Search Committee, Editor of The American Historical Review
2012-15
Vice-President, American Historical Association (responsible for the Research
Division)
2012-15
American Historical Association Council
2013Senior Associate, University of Sussex Centre for World Environmental History
2012Anthropocene Working Group, International Union of Geological Sciences,
International Commission on Stratigraphy, Subcommission on Quaternary
Stratigraphy [!]
2012-15
Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies
2011-13
President, American Society for Environmental History
2011-13
Co-Chair, AHA annual meeting Program Committee
2011-12
AHA annual meeting Program Committee
2010Board, Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University
2009-10
fundraising committee for Richards prize in South Asian History (AHA)
2009-10
Search committee for editor of the journal Environmental History
2009-10
Review Panel – Swedish Research on Sustainability (convened by Formas, the
Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial
Planning
2010ASEH, Executive Committee
2009-11
The Historical Society (Board of Governors)
2008-14
Rachel Carson Center, Board (Munich)
2007-9
Program Committee, World Environmental History Congress
2006Lund University (Sweden), Division of Human Ecology, Advisory Board
2006-11
College Board World History Development committee
2006-09
National Council for History Education, Board of Trustees
2004Series co-editor (with Ken Pomeranz), world history, Rowman & Littlefield
2004Klagenfurt University, Virtual Collegium of Social Ecology
2003-6
Nominating Committee, American Society for Environmental History
2003
Jury, Weyerhauser Book Prize in Forest History
2000-08
Advisory Board, World History Association website
1999-2005 American Society for Environmental History, Executive Committee
1999-2000 ASEH Aldo Leopold Prize Committee
1997-8
SSRC Central Asian Water Project Committee
1997
World History Association, Program Committee
1996-7
SSRC and IIASA 1997 Open Meeting on Global Environmental Change,
Program Committee
1996-7
ASEH, Alice Hamilton Prize Committee
1995-7
SSRC Committee for Research on Global Environmental Change
EDITORIAL BOARDS (JOURNALS)
2017-
J. of World History [Advisory Board]
201420132013201220062006200120001995-2014
World History Studies (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
The Anthropocene Review (U.K.) (I serve as associate editor)
Asian Review of World Histories (Korea)
Klaudyan [Czech historical geography journal]
Global Environment (Italy)
Historia Agraria (Spain)
Contemporary History Review (Spain)
Environment and History (U.K.)
Environmental History (US)
EDITORIAL BOARDS (BOOK SERIES)
20132009-
Berghahn Books, Environment and History series
University of Arizona Press series in Latin American environmental history
BOOK SERIES EDITORSHIPS
2009-
Cambridge University Press, International & Global History (w/ A. Roshwald and
E. Manela)
Stephen Macekura, Of Limits and Growth
Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis
Timothy Nunan, Humanitarian Invasion
Matthias Schmelzer, The Hegemony of Growth
Nathan Citino, Envisioning the Arab Future
Stefan Rinke, Latin America and the First World War
2004-
Rowman & Littlefield, World History (w/ Ken Pomeranz)
John Aberth, Plagues in World History
Arturo Giraldez, The Age of Trade:The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy
Alan Karras, Smuggling: Contraband and Corruption in World History
William Storey, The First World War: A Concise Global History
Brian Black, Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History
Richard Tucker, Insatiable Appetite (concise edition)
2001-
Cambridge University Press, Environmental History (w/ Donald Worster to 2013;
w/ Ed Russell 2013- )
Nancy Jacobs, Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History
Matthew Evenden, Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
Myrna Santiago, The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-38
Frank Uekotter, The Green and the Brown: A History of Nature Conservation in Nazi Germany
James Webb, Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
Richard Judd, The Untilled Garden
Edmund Rusell, Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Sam White, The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Ottoman Empire
Greg Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
Paul Josephson et al, An Environmental History of Russia
Emmanuel Krieke, Environmental Infrastructure in African History
George Colpitts, Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American
Great Plains, 1780-1882
John Brooke, Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey
Micah Muscolino, The Ecology of War in China:Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond
C. Kieko Matteson, Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict
Peter Thorsheim, Waste into Weapons:Recycling in Britain during the Second World War
Erik Loomis, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests
David Bello, Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing
China’s Borderlands
Andy Bruno, The Nature of Soviet Power
Abraham Gibson, Feral Animals in the American South
Ling Zhang, The River, the Plain, and the State :An Environmental Drama in Northern Song
China, 1048–1128
9. Community Service, Consultancies
2013
2009
2008
2007-8
2005
2001-3
1999-2010
1997-8
1996-8
1993-6
1990-1
1989
1989
1985-7
1985
1984-6
National Geographic Concise History of the World (consultant, writer)
PBS, ‘Greening of America’ (consultant)
Schlesinger Group on Strategic Surprise (climate change project)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (climate change project)
Asian Research Bureau: consultant on natural resource diplomacy project
Sea Studios TV series, Strange Days on Planet Earth: consultant
basketball coach, Montgomery County youth league
Time-Life Books, ancient civilizations: Consultant
Houghton-Mifflin/WGBH, "The People's Century" telecourse: consultant
United Nations University, Millennium Project Feasibility Study: consultant
National Geographic high school project on ancient cites of the world: consultant
University of Delaware roundtable on world history
N.E.H. consultant on Onandaga Iroquois/French Interaction Museum
Time-Life books: consultant
Center Stage, Baltimore: panel discussant on theatre and the French Revolution
Maryland Area Coalition for Soviet-American Relations: lecturer on Soviet
foreign policy