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Anniversary Forum: what's next For Environmental History?
Adam Rome
| TO MARK THE start of Environmental History's tenth year, I asked a variety of scholars to write short essays about future directions for environmental history. All twenty-nine contributors have published in Environmental History before, so this section is a celebration of the diversity of the journal's authors as well as a forum on possible next steps for our field. Within the space limit I set, the contributors were free to write whatever they wanted. I expected that some of the essays would focus on one big idea, while others would offer several suggestions. Though I thought that most of the contributors would focus on largely unexplored topics, I hoped that at least a few would critique some of the directions environmental history is heading now. |
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The contributors wrote independently—they did not know what the other contributors were writing—so part of the excitement of reading this section will be looking for common themes. To heighten that excitement, I decided not to group the twenty-nine essays in any thematic way. Instead, they appear in alphabetical order by the author's last name. |
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The images in this section essentially constitute a thirtieth essay. I asked the journal's graphics editor, Kathy Morse, to pick ten images that suggest important subjects that environmental historians might explore. Like the other contributors to this section, Kathy worked independently. Yet some of her images underscore points made by other contributors. |
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Together, these essays and images attest to the extraordinary vitality of our field. We have a profound subject, and we have wonderfully smart and passionate colleagues. I can't wait to see what's next! |
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