John robert mcneill biography

John Robert McNeill is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University.
A transformative scholar of world environmental history, an inspiring and daring teacher, a steadfast and trusted mentor for graduate students and junior.
Present and Previous Positions.

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John Robert McNeill#

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Present and Previous Positions

2006 - present University Professor, Georgetown University
2003 - 2006 Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environment and International Affairs, Georgetown
1993 - 2003 Professor, Georgetown University History Dept. and Walsh School of Foreign Service
1990 - 1993 Associate Professor, Georgetown University History Dept. and Walsh School of Foreign Service
1985 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Georgetown University History Department and Walsh School of Foreign Service
1983 - 1985 Assistant Professor, European history, Goucher College
1981 - 1983 Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
1982 - 1983 Researcher, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
1975 - 1976 Instructor in Geography and Economics, Athens College (Athens, Greece)

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Interview – John R. McNeill
John Robert McNeill is an American environmental historian who is serving as a professor at Georgetown University. He is the son of William H. McNeill early proponent of world history, together they wrote The Human Web: A Bird’s-eye View of World History. John R. McNeill is mainly known for his pioneering work on enviromental history publishing works such as Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World.
Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field?
Many would disagree with me but what I find most exciting and interesting are efforts to complement textual evidence about the human past with evidence from the province of the natural sciences. Or, to put it differently, to combine archives with geo-archives and bio-archives. In some respects, archeologists have been doing this for a century. And historians have long been open to evidence from, for example, art history. But now the offerings from various
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J. R. McNeill
American historian
John Robert McNeill (born October 6, 1954) is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University. He is best known for "pioneering the study of environmental history".^[1] In 2000 he published Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental changes on an unprecedented scale, primarily due to the energy system built around fossil fuels.
Life and career
McNeill was born on October 6, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was the noted University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, with whom he published a book, The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History, in 2003.^[2] He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
McNeill received his BA from Swarthmore College in 1975, then went on to Duke University where he completed his MA in 1977 and his PhD in 1981.^[3]
In 1985 he became a faculty member at Georgetown University, where he ser