Environmental History Symposium

All are welcome to an informal research symposium highlighting the work of faculty and graduate students in environmental history at Auburn University.

Panel 1: Environmental Histories of the US South

• Dr. Ken Noe, “The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War”
• Mr. Peter Thomas, “Conceptualizing Civil War Encampments as Militarized Landscapes.”
• Dr. Jason Hauser, “A Climate History of the American South.”
• Dr. Elijah Gaddis, “Landscapes of Lynching: Objects, Environment, and Racial Terror”

Panel 2: Environmental Histories Around the World

• Dr. Christopher Ferguson, “The Age of Environism? Thinking about People, Places, and Things during Britain’s First Industrial Revolution, c. 1770-c. 1870”
• Dr. Sarah Hamilton, “Water Underground: Comparative Histories of Groundwater Exploitation”
• Dr. Claire Perrott, “The Volcano that Grew out of a Mexican Cornfield”
• Dr. Xaq Frohlich, “What is the Mediterranean diet?: The reinvention of a culinary tradition as a global, healthy lifestyle”