Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH Affiliate 2021-2022, WIGH; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Moritz von Brescius is a senior lecturer in modern history at University of Bern. His research areas include the global history of science and empire, the... Read more about Moritz von Brescius
Visiting Fellow, Fall 2019, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (starting January 2020)
Israel G. Solares received his PhD in 2018 from El Colegio de México. He has been a Visiting Researcher and Research Associate at the Kellogg Institute... Read more about Israel G. Solares
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2020, WIGH Associate Professor of History, University of California Berkeley
Vanessa Ogle is a historian of Europe from the 18th century to the present. She is received her PhD from Harvard University and is currently Associate...
Visiting Scholar, 2018-2019, WIGH Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations, Harvard University Assistant Professor, Humanities and Languages, Ahmedabad University, India
Murari Jha is an economic and environmental historian of early modern India, and his broader research interests include the Mughal Empire, Ganga River Systems... Read more about Murari Jha
Research Fellow, WIGH; WCFIA Graduate Student Associate Samuel P. Huntington Doctoral Dissertation Fellow PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
Research Interests: Energy in empire and its aftermath, focusing on the rise of the Manchurian fossil fuel industry....
Prof. Franz Josef Brueggemeier, Location: Robinson Hall 105, Meeting Time: Th., 4-6
The course will explore how different human societies have comprehended, used, adapted to and valued their natural environments and how these environments have shaped human behavior and the way their societies developed. The course will range from pre-historic times until the current debate about global warming. In doing so the course will also provide an introduction into the field of environmental history, its theories and methodologies and some of its most important works.