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John McNeillJohn McNeill was born and raised in Chicago and remains passionately devoted to the professional sports teams of the Windy City. He earned, or at any rate was awarded, a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Duke University. Since 1985 he has cheerfully served two masters, as a faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown. From 2003 until 2006, he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs, until his appointment as Distinguished University Professor. He teaches world history, environmental history, and international history. His most recent books are Mosquito Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2010); The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, co-authored with his former PhD student Peter Engelke (Harvard University Press, 2016); The Webs of Humankind (Norton, 2020), 2 vols; and the co-authored Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is a former president of both the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association; and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Royal Academy of Morocco; and in 2018-21 was Honorary Professor at the University of Beijing. In 2018 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded him the Heineken Prize for History.
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