Emily Pawley
Emily Pawley is Associate Professor of History; Walter E. Beach '56 Chair in Sustainability Studies since 2011 at Dickinson College
Emily Pawley at Dickinson College teaches agricultural history, food studies, environmental history, and the history of science. Her research focuses on cultivated landscapes as sources of knowledge.
Her book The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Capitalism, and Science in the Antebellum North is newly out with Chicago in 2020 and she’s currently juggling projects on climate change pedagogy, carbon sequestration, and the history of ideas of nurture.
- Research Interests
- environmental history, history of capitalism, history of the body, landscape, history of food and food production, history of science
- Education
B.A., University of Toronto, 2001
M.Phil., Cambridge University, M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Ph.D., 2009
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