John McNeill
Professional Affiliation
University Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Expert Bio
John McNeill is University Professor at Georgetown University and an expert on international environmental history. McNeill holds dual appointments in Georgetown鈥檚 School of Foreign Service and its Department of History. Prior to being named university professor, he was the Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environment and International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service. McNeill has also taught at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland and at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He received both his master鈥檚 and doctorate from Duke University.
McNeill鈥檚 academic career is studded with numerous awards and fellowship opportunities including the American Historical Association鈥檚 2011 Albert J. Beveridge Award for his most recent publication. In 2010, he won the Toynbee Prize for academic and public contributions to humanity. He is the president of the American Society for Environmental History, and has held fellowships with the MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Security and Sustainability, the Guggenheim Foundation, Woodrow 乐鱼 体育, and Fulbright Foundation.
In addition to numerous journal articles and essays, McNeill is the author of 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, which won the World History Association Book Prize and the Weyerhaeuser Book Prize. His other books include The Human Web, The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History and The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763.
