Environmental history has formed an important part of the curriculum at Georgetown since the 1990s. Roughly two dozen PhD students have completed, or are completing, dissertations in environmental history here. At any given time, our community of students and professors amounts to about 12-15 people. We gather frequently for talks, workshops – or just lunch – and do our best to support one another. Students have focused (or are focusing) their work on China, Korea, India, several parts of the Middle East, Russia, Central and Western Europe, East and Central Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, the US, and Canada. Chronologically, student work has ranged from 400 CE to the present. Students often include climate history or disease history (or both) as significant components of their work, and almost all develop competence in the use of so-called “natural archives” in addition to textual sources. Student-faculty research collaborations have produced three co-authored books and several articles. As a visit to the alumni page will show, our graduates are working in thinks tanks, business, and especially in academia.

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Department of History
ICC 600
3700 O St, NW
Washington, DC​