Justin McBrien
Lecturer
Field & Specialties
Environmental History
Modern U.S.
Climate Change
Extinction Studies
Education
University of Virginia, M.A.
University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
Publications
"How Farmers Convinced Scientists to Take Climate Change Seriously," The Washington Post, August 27, 2017.
"Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene,” in Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Edited by Jason W. Moore. San Francisco, CA: PM Press, 2016.
"Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene,” in Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Edited by Jason W. Moore. San Francisco, CA: PM Press, 2016.
Current Research
Dissertation: Making the World Safe For Disaster: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Politics of Climate Change, 1945-1974.
Advisor: Brian Balogh.
Courses Taught
The Anthropocene? Climate Change and Global History, Winter 2018.
The Second World War, Fall 2017
Global Environmental History, Summer 2015