People & Research

Ellen Arnold

Senior Lecturer
Department of History

Research Areas: Medieval religious history, cultural history, and water history

Dima Arzyutov

Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures 

Research Areas: Environmental history of the Arctic and Siberia

Matthew Birkhold

Associate Professor
Germanic Languages and Literatures

Research Areas: Cultural history of the Arctic, environmental and international law, water 

Nicholas B. Breyfogle

Associate Professor, Director of the Goldberg Center
Department of History

Research Areas: Global environmental and water history

Kent (Kip) Curtis

Associate Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Mining, environmental ideas, and food systems

John Davis

Assistant Professor
Knowlton School of Architecture

Research Areas: Environmental and architectural history

Jennifer Eaglin

Associate Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Latin American Energy Development

Bart Elmore

Associate Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental history, business history, the history of science and medicine, agricultural history, and the history of capitalism

Ryan Fontanilla

Assistant Professor 
Department of History

Research Areas:  Atlantic world, Slavery, Emancipation, Racial Capitalism, Environmental Racism

James Harris

Ph.D., Lecturer
Department of History

Research Areas: History of Public Health and the History of Infectious Diseases

Elena Irwin

Faculty Director
Sustainability Institute

Research Areas: Environmental economics focused on the economics of land use and development in urban, urbanizing and agricultural regions

Marian Moser Jones

Associate Professor
College of Public Health

Research Areas: Public Health, Nursing, and Modern American history

Patrick Louchouarn

Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty, Office of Academic Affairs

Research Areas: Biogeochemistry, combustion, and human-environmental interaction 

Thomas McDow

Associate Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: African History, the Indian Ocean World, and the History of Global Health

Erin Moore

Dr. Carl F. Asseff Assistant Professor in Anthropology
and the History of Medicine
Department of Anthropology

Research Areas: Sociocultural and Medical anthropology, Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS

Christopher Otter

Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: History of technology and the material world, the history of food, the history of health and disease, and British history

Geoffrey Parker

Distinguished University Professor
and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History
Department of History

Research Areas: Climate, Early Modern, and Military history

Amanda Respess

Assistant Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Premodern World, Maritime, and Medical history and Material Culture

Randolph Roth

College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Modern American and Homicide history

Kristina Sessa

Professor
Department of History

Research Areas: Ancient and Medieval History

Joel Wainwright

Professor
Department of Geography

Research Areas: Political Economy of Development, Environmental and Agrarian Change, Social Theory

John Brooke

Emeritus Professor, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History

Research Areas: Early American History and Environmental History

Philip C. Brown

Emeritus Professor
Department of History

Research Areas:  Early Modern and Modern Japanese History with interests in the history of technology, environmental history and state-society relations from the 15th to 19th centuries

Michael Corsi

Graduate Student
Department of History

Research Areas: Scientific knowledge in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia

James Esposito

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: environmental history, military history, and the history of technology

Mansi Goyal

Graduate Student
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, World, and Commodity history 

Ives Hartman

Title
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, Animal, and Agricultural history 

Neil Humphrey

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, Animal, and Anglo-world history and Animal Studies

Alyssa Kotva

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, Ancient, and Mediterranean history

Michael Kraemer

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: Native American and Russian history

Henry Misa

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: Central Asian Environmental and Climate history 

Nicholas Seay

Graduate Student
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, Russian and Eastern European, and Central Asian history

Leyla Tiglay

PhD Candidate
Department of History

Research Areas: International history of decolonization and the history of technology and environment

Emma Todd

Graduate Student
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, German, and Modern American history

Dylan Cahn

Ph.D., Lecturer
Department of History

Research Areas: Environmental, Agricultural, Dietary, and Modern British history

Katherine Lang

ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow
Air Force Research Lab’s History Office

Research Areas: Medical technology and sustainability

George Lywood

Research Areas: Russian and Ukrainian Environmental and Medical history

Dustin Meier

Doctoral Lecturer in History
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Research Areas: Urban, Environmental, and Social History of the Twentieth-Century United States

Paul N. Neibrzydowski

Research Areas: Environmental and food history, ecology of warfare, humanitarianism, and public health

Cody Patton

Assistant Professor of Modern American History
Montana State University-Billings

Research Areas: Modern U.S. history and environmental history

Mark Sokolsky

Instructional Designer
Royal Military College of Canada

Research Areas: Tsarist/Soviet, Siberian, and Pacific environmental history 

Dan Vandersommers

Assistant Professor of Environmental History
University of Dayton

Research Areas: Environmental History, Animal Studies, Science Studies, and Posthumanism