PATRICK ANTHONY, Ph.D.

HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

I am a social historian of science and environment in central Europe and the World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My research ranges from German mining and working-class families in natural history to transimperial networks of earth and atmospheric science that linked Central Europe to commodity frontiers in the Americas and northern Eurasia.

I am currently an Irish Research Council Fellow at University College Dublin. Here, I am pursuing a project called Anthropocene Frontiers: The Climate of Conflict in Siberia and the Steppe, a study of how settler colonial violence in the marches of the Russian Empire generated knowledge about climate and the human capacity to change it. In fall 2024, I will begin a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Uppsala University.

My forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers, is an archaeology of environmental sciences assembled through mining industries that linked central Europe to empires in the Americas and northern Eurasia.

My research has been published in journals such as Isis, Journal of the History of Ideas, Historical Journal, and Journal of Social History.  After receiving my Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2021, I was a DAAD Prime Fellow at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest.

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