Member Bio
Tait Keller is an associate professor of history and former director of environmental studies and sciences at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His research focuses on environmental change in times of crisis and conflict. His publications include Apostles of the Alps, and articles in , Environmental History, and elsewhere. His current book project, A Global Environmental History of the First World War, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Along with Richard Tucker, Martin Schmid, and John McNeill, he is one of the editors of Environmental Histories of World War I, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the European Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received his BA from the University of Rochester, and his MA and PhD at Georgetown University.