John R. McNeill

John R. McNeill is among the world's leading environmental historians. His work spans the globe, and covers both vast time scales and much more focused studies, integrating textual evidence with biophysical materials (e.g., genetic phylogenies) in methodologically innovative ways. Something New Under the Sun (2000), the first synoptic global environmental history of the twentieth century, has been translated into nine languages; Mosquito Empires (2010) won two major book awards. He has been President of the American Society for Environmental History and President of American Historical Association (2019); he received a Toynbee Award for contributions in global history, the Heineken Prize for History (2018), and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and many other sources. In 2021, he was elected to the Academia Europaea.