Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching. He is a specialist in global environmental and water history, especially in Russia/Soviet Union. He is the author/editor of Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (2023); Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (2021), Nature at War: American Environments and World War II (2020); Readings in Water History (2020); Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018); Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (2007); and Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (2005), which was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award. He is current completing two books: “Baikal: the Great Lake and its People” and “Water: A Human History.” He was part of the team that produced the documentary … And Water for All (2021), and is a PI on an international research team exploring the history and lived experiences of climate/glacial change in the Indus River Basin. Since 2007, Breyfogle has worked as co-editor of the online magazine/podcast/video channel Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, http://origins.osu.edu and most recently on& Picturing Black History, https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/.
Breyfogle teaches courses a comparative global water history (including History 2704: Water: A Human History”) and climate history (including the study abroad course: “The Politics of Climate: the United Nations Climate Summit”)