History of Ecology and Environmentalism: Climate Change in History

Dr. Kari Marie Norgaard is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. Dr. Norgaard is recent Chair of Section on Environmental Sociology, American Sociological Association. Over the past fifteen years Dr. Norgaard has published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, indigenous environmental justice, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture and sociology of emotions. She is the author of Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Nature, Colonialism and Social Action (Rutgers University Press, 2019) and Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2011) and a recipient of the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, a Sociology of Emotions Recent Contribution Award and the Pacific Sociological Association’s Distinguished Practice Award. Her work on climate denial and indigenous environmental justice have been covered by the Washington Post, National Geographic, British Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, High Country News and Yes Magazine, among others.

Deborah R. Coen is a professor of history and chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, as well as a member of the steering committee of Yale's Environmental Humanities Program. Her research interests include the history of the physical and environmental sciences and the intellectual and cultural history of modern central Europe. She is the author, most recently, of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (2018), and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (2013).

Paul N. Edwards is Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. He writes and teaches about the history, politics, and culture of information infrastructures. Edwards is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996), and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as numerous articles. With Geof Bowker, he co-edits a book series, Infrastructures, for MIT Press.  Edwards is currently serving as one of over 900 lead authors for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to be released in 2021.

Clark Miller is the co-editor of The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, a free, downloadable book of science fiction stories and other writings about the future of societies built using solar energy. He is the Director of the Center for Energy & Society and a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. His research examines strategies for navigating the techno-human complexities of energy transitions, democratizing energy futures, and leveraging energy innovation to end extreme poverty around the globe.

Candis Callison is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford U Press, 2020). Candis is Tahltan (an Indigenous people located in what is now northwestern British Columbia), a regular contributor to the podcast, Media Indigena, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.