AHA Panel on Climate Change in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Dear all,

We are currently putting together a panel proposal for new year's meeting of the AHA in Washington, DC, and we are looking for an additional panelist.

Our panel will be on conceptions of climate change in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on how notions of "climate" evolved with colonial expansion, how climatic theories intersected with concepts of race and gender, and how scholarly theories and popular ideas about growing deserts and changing climates interacted with one another.  Papers on the political, economic, and imperial contexts for academic climate science would be particularly welcome.

If you're interested, please shoot us an email sometime during the next week.  Our addresses are: pbdavis@princeton.edu and plehmann@fas.harvard.edu.

All the best,

Paul Davis

PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University

Philipp Lehmann

PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University