Student Publications

“Batı Anadolu’da Köylüler, Keresteciler ve Müşterekler” (“Villagers, Timber Merchants and Commons in Western Anatolia”), Toplumsal Tarih 312 (2019): 50-64.

Editor of Special Issue: “Osmanlı’da Çevre, İklim, ve İnsanlar” (“Environment, Climate, and People in the Ottoman Empire”), Toplumsal Tarih 312 (2019). 

“Environment and the Conquest of the Desert, 1876-1881,” in The Conquest of the Desert: History and Memory, ed. C. R. Larson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020), 71-96.

“Maize on the Move: The Diffusion of a Tropical Cultivar across Europe,” Environment and History (2021), https://doi.org/10.3197/096734021X16076828553386.

“Ecological Exchanges and Environmental History,” in Explorations in History and Globalization, ed. Catia Antunes and Karwan Fatah-Black (London: Routledge, 2016).

With G. Pitts, “Towards an Environmental History of World War I: Human and Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Mediterranean,” in The World during the First World War, ed. Helmut Bley and Anorthe Kremers (Essen: Klartext, 2014), 237-250.

“Ottoman Environmental History: A New Area of Middle East Studies,” Arab Studies Journal 20 (2012): 246-254.

“Changes in the Euphrates River: Ecology and Politics in a Rural Ottoman Periphery, 1687-1702,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 47 (2016): 1-25.

“In the Bellies of the Marshes: Water and Power in the Countryside of Ottoman Baghdad,” Environmental History 19 (2014): 638-664.

[Won Leopold-​Hidy Award for best article in Environmental History, 2014.]

“‘Thirsty Sugar Lands’: Environmental Impacts of Dams and Empire in Puerto Rico since 1898,” Environment and History 27 (2021): 337-365.

“Black Gold of Paradise: Negotiating Oil Pollution in the US Virgin Islands, 1966-2012,” Environmental History 24 (2019): 766-792.

[Mentioned in the Washington Post, 25 March 2021; and cited in a legal brief filed with the EPA in February 2021.]

“Swampy Sugar Lands: Irrigation Dams and the Rise and Fall of Malaria in Puerto Rico, 1898-1962,” Journal of Latin American Studies 51 (2019): 243-271.

“How Brown were the Conservationists? Naturism, Conservation, and National Socialism, 1900- 1945,” Contemporary European History 19 (2010): 83-93. 

Co-Editor, Companion to Global Environmental History (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

With John R. McNeill, “Global Environmental History: An Introduction,” in Companion to Global Environmental History, ed. John R. McNeill and Erin S. Mauldin (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), xvi-xxiv.

“The Environmental History of the United States,” in Companion to Global Environmental History, ed. John R. McNeill and Erin S. Mauldin (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 132-152.

“Monuments, Urbanism, and Power in Urban Spaces: Looking at New Orleans, Louisiana from São Paulo, Brazil,” in Demand the Impossible: Essays in History as Activism, ed. N. Wuertenberg and W. Horne (Washington, DC: Westphalia Press, 2018), 71-88.

“Citizenship and Water-Spigot Politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1960-1990,” in Urban Solutions: Metropolitan Approaches, Innovations in Urban Water and Sanitation, and Inclusive Smart Cities, ed. A. Garland (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2016), 31-55.

“El hombre hicotea y la ecología de los paisajes acuáticos en Resistencia en el San Jorge,” Tabula Rasa 23 (2015): 79-103.

“A Comparative Case Study of Uranium Mine and Mill Tailings Regulation in Canada and the United States,” in Mining North America, ed. George Vrtis and John R. McNeill (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 256-279.

“‘To Keep All the Year:’ Women’s Experiences of Climate in the Everyday Eighteenth Century,” in “Forum: Early Modern Women and Climate,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 18, no. 1 (2023): 99-107.

With Dagomar Degroot, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Jessica E. Tierney, Felix Riede, Andrea Manica, Emma Moesswilde, and Nicolas Gauthier, “The History of Climate and Society: A Review of the Influence of Climate Change on the Human Past,” Environmental Research Letters 17, no. 10 (2022): 103001.

With Dagomar Degroot, Kevin Anchukaitis, Martin Bauch, Jakob Burnham, Fred Carnegy, Jianxin Cui, Kathryn de Luna, Piotr Guzowski, George Hambrecht, Heli Huhtamaa, Adam Izdebski, Katrin Kleemann, Naresh Neupane, Timothy Newfield, Qing Pei, Elena Xoplaki, and Natale Zappia, “Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change,” Nature 591, no. 7851 (2021): 539-550.

[Covered by news media in Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Poland, and the United States, among other countries.]

“Petroleum and Science: The National Petroleum Council and the Development of Oil Geology in Brazil,” in History, Exploration & Exploitation of Oil and Gas, ed. S. F. Figueirôa, G. A. Good, and D. Peyerl (Cham: Springer, 2019), 37-49.

“Oil in 20th century Brazil: Energy Dependence in the Second World War,” Varia Historia 34 (2018): 347-374.

“‘Conquered by Sparrows’: Avian Invasions in French North Africa, circa 1871-1920,” Environmental History 25 (2020): 310-334.

“‘Les rendre odieux dans tous les pays Arabes’: La France et la famine au Liban 1914-1918,” Cahiers de l’Orient 117 (2015): 33-47.
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With C. Gratien, “Towards an Environmental History of World War I: Human and Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Mediterranean,” in The World during the First World War, ed. Helmut Bley and Anorthe Kremers (Essen: Klartext, 2014), 237-250.

With R. Bouwmeester, G. Kerametsidis, and S. Maniatakou, “First Integrated Marine Ecological Assessment of Samothraki,” Sustainable Mediterranean 73 (2016): 49-51.

“Testing the Waters: Syndemic Gastrointestinal Distress in Lambaréné, Gabon, 1926-1932,” Social Science & Medicine (2020): 113405.

“Riverine Environments,” in Companion to Global Environmental History, ed. John R. McNeill and Erin S. Mauldin (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 297-318.

With John R. McNeill, Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader (London: Routledge, 2012).

“An Icy Feud In Planetary Science: Carl Sagan, Edward Teller, and the Ideological Roots of the Nuclear Winter Debates, 1980–1984,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 52, no. 2 (2022): 190-222.
 
“Preemptive Strikes: Women Strike for Peace, Antinuclear Pacifism, and the Movement for a Biological Democracy, 1961–1963,” Peace & Change 46, no. 2 (2021): 164-182.

Rachel Singer, Review of Isabel Moreira, Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint (Oxford, 2024), Journal of Religious History 50, no. 2 (2026): 231–32.

Dagomar Degroot, Rachel Singer, Nicolas Gauthier, and Sarah Klassen, “Using Climate’s Past: An Analysis of History of Climate and Society Studies in the Fight Against Global Warming,” in Bridging History and Policy: Essays on Resilience, Sustainability and Systems Modelling, ed. John F. Haldon and Ricardo Fernandes. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026.

Rachel Singer, Review of Annalisa Marzano, Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2022), H-Environment, H-Net Reviews, February 2025. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60741.

Janet E. Kay, István Koncz, Jordan Wilson, Rachel Singer, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, and Timothy P. Newfield, “Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic,” Speculum 100, no. 2 (2025): 321–64.

Rachel Singer, Review of Colin P. Elliott, Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Princeton, 2024), H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews, November 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60696.

Rachel Singer, “Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain,” The English Historical Review 139, no. 600 (2024): 992–1026.

Rachel Singer, “The Maghrebi Black Death,” in The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages. Arc Humanities Press/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Rachel Singer, “Gregory’s Forgotten Rebel: The Portrayal of Basina by Gregory of Tours and Its Implications,” Early Medieval Europe 30, no. 2 (2022): 185–208.

Rachel Singer, “The Black Death in the Maghreb: A Call to Action,” Journal of Medieval Worlds 2, nos. 3–4 (2020): 115–23.

“Mapping the Cadastre, Producing the Fellah: Technologies and Discourses of Rule in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, ed. C. Schayegh and A. Arsan (New York: Routledge, 2015).​