Visiting Scholar Fellowships

The Centre for Anthropocene History invites applications for visiting scholar fellowships for 2025 and 2026. We welcome applications from scholars at all levels and from all disciplines and all parts of the world, who want to work with us and contribute to shaping the emerging field of Anthropocene history.

For details, please see our call for visiting scholars in Anthropocene History (pdf 166 kB) .

2024 Visiting Fellows

In September and October 2024, we welcomed Thomas Turnbull from the Max Planck Instutute for the History of Science and Technology in Berlin. Among other activities, while here Thomas co-organised the HEPM II Workshop on Planetary Modelling, and presented his co-authored forthcoming book. Thomas studied history and geography at Kings College London and the University of Oxford. He completed a thesis in 2017, titled “From Paradox to Policy: The Problem of Energy Resource Conservation in Britain and America, 1865–1981,” which provided the first history of energy resource conservation as both a form of science and policy. Thomas has previously worked as a policy advisor for a London-based environmental think tank involved in implementing the European Eco-design Directive. He has also been part of a project at Cambridge University’s Museum of Anthropology, which was dedicated to preserving endangered languages via the creation of an audio database.