Georgetown University
Environmental
History
The Environmental History Research Group at Georgetown University
Meet the communityHealy Hall, Georgetown University
A global field
History shaped by the living world.
Environmental history has formed an important part of the curriculum at Georgetown since the 1990s. Our community gathers frequently for talks, workshops, and conversation—and works to support scholarship across regions, periods, and disciplines.
Students have studied environments across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, from 400 CE to the present. Their work often brings climate or disease history into dialogue with textual sources and the evidence held in natural archives.
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Research, teaching, and community
Community
People
Meet the faculty, doctoral students, and alumni who make up Georgetown’s environmental history community.
Graduate study
Courses
Explore seminars and courses in environmental, climate, disease, and global history.
Scholarship
Student publications
Read the peer-reviewed work doctoral students published before defending their dissertations.
Across boundaries
Climate. Disease. Energy. Landscapes.
The group connects human histories with changing environments and collaborates across the humanities and sciences.
Environmental History PhD