Curriculum Vitae
APPOINTMENTS
2025- Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Department of History & Geography, Elon University
EDUCATION
2025 Ph.D., History, Georgetown University
2021 M.A., History, Georgetown University
2018 B.A., cum laude, History (honors) and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
“Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739-1800,” Environment and History 31:2, 253-277.
“‘To Keep All the Year:’ Women’s Experiences of Climate in the Everyday Eighteenth Century,” in “Forum: Early Modern Women and Climate,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 18: 1 (Fall 2023), 99-107.
Dagomar Degroot, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Jessica E. Tierney, Felix Riede, Andrea Manica, Emma Moesswilde, and Nicolas Gauthier. “The History of Climate and Society: A Review of the Influence of Climate Change on the Human Past,” Environmental Research Letters 17, no. 10 (2022): 103001.
Dagomar Degroot, Kevin Anchukaitis, Martin Bauch, Jakob Burnham, Fred Carnegy, Jianxin Cui, Kathryn de Luna, Piotr Guzowski, George Hambrecht, Heli Huhtamaa, Adam Izdebski, Katrin Kleemann, Emma Moesswilde, Timothy Newfield, Qing Pei, Elena Xoplaki, Natale Zappia, “Toward a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change,” Nature 591, no. 7851 (March 25, 2021): 539–50.
Other Publications
“Preservation Practices in the Early American Kitchen,” The Beehive, Massachusetts Historical Society, forthcoming.
“Lessons Learned from the ‘Year Without a Summer:’ A Call for Studying Climate Persistence,” The Panorama: Expansive Views from The Journal of the Early Republic.
“Climate Resilience, Past and Present: Rural Communities and Food Systems,” Active History, October 7, 2021.
Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde, “Can Voting Stop Global Warming? What Americans Need to Know About the History of Climate Change,” AHA Perspectives in History, September 2020.
“Representing Rurality in Environmental History,” Environmental History Now, August 7, 2020.
Reviews
Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850-2010. By Richard W. Judd. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. Agricultural History, in press.
William Ellis: Eighteenth Century Farmer, Journalist, and Entrepreneur. By Malcolm Thick. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022. Agricultural History 97:3 (August 2023), 496-498.
Review of Readman, Paul. Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews, February, 2021.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2024 Medical Humanities Fellowship, Medical Humanities Initiative, Georgetown University
Scholars’ Grant, Culinary Historians of New York
2023 New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society
Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Georgetown University
2022 Research Grant Award, Agricultural History Society
Piepho Travel and Research Grant, Georgetown University
GradGov Research Project Award, Georgetown University
Conference Travel Grant, American Society for Environmental History
Conference Travel Grant, Georgetown University
2020 Spector Fellowship, Bowdoin College
Cosmos Club Foundation Grant, Cosmos Club Foundation, Washington, D.C.
2018 Paul Nyhus Travel Grant, Department of History, Bowdoin College
2017 Surdna Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Bowdoin College
2016 Psi Upsilon Community Matters in Maine Environmental Fellowship, Bowdoin College
TEACHING
2025 Instructor, HST 2210: The World in the Twentieth Century, Elon University
Instructor, HIST 3110-02: The Deep: Environments and Cultures of the Northern Atlantic, Georgetown University
2024 Instructor, HIST 1102: The Little Ice Age, Georgetown University
Instructor, HIST 1111: Global Warming, Georgetown University
2022 Teaching Assistant, HIST 099: Climate Change and Human History, Georgetown University
2020 Teaching Assistant, HIST 099: HyperHistory, Georgetown University
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Gender, Climate Record-Keeping, and the Construction of a Local “’Weather-World,’” – part of panel “New Climate Histories,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.
“Seeds of Change in the Atlantic World” – panel chair, American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
“Climate Change in the Kitchen: Atlantic Eating at the End of the Little Ice Age” – part of panel “Nourishing Extraction, Environing Bodies: Corporeal Histories of Food, Empire, and Environment,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.
“Towards Better Histories of Climate and Society: Investigating Late Antique and Medieval Climate Change” – panel chair, American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.
“Climate Change and the Origins of Conflict: Beyond the Food Price Paradigm” – part of panel “The Winds of War: The History of Climatic and Environmental Influences on Warfare,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting.
“Locating Women in Climate Histories: Past, Present, and Praxis” – part of roundtable, European Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting (roundtable organizer).
“Climate Education: The Case for History and the Social Sciences” – part of roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Meeting.
“Tools for Change: A Conversation on Doing Environmental-Related Work in Innovative and Sustainable Ways” – roundtable co-moderator, American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.
“Agricultural Adaptation and Seasonal Climate Change in the British Northern Atlantic, 1540-1816” – Inaugural Graduate Research Symposium, Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability Working Group.
“Intersectional Environmental Feminisms in the Digital Space” – Centre for Feminist Research, York University (roundtable co-organizer).
“Agricultural Afterlives of the ‘Year Without a Summer:’ Rural Communities and the Uses of Climate History” – part of panel “Prehistories of the Green New Deal,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
“Seasonal Variability, Seasoned Adaptation: Living with Local Climate Change in Northern Britain” – part of panel “Localizing Climate History,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting (panel organizer).
WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
“Living with Climate Change in Northern New England: Seasonal Variability and Rural Life at the Close of the Long Eighteenth Century” – Environmental History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society.
“Planning a Federated Early North American Weather Records Digital Resource” – Invited workshop participant and subject expert on climate history records, American Philosophical Society, The Center for Digital Editing, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND FEATURES
“Creative Community Responses to Climate Change,” 90 Second Narratives Podcast.
“Living With Thin Ice: Past Perspectives on Climate Change in Belfast, Maine,” Belfast Free Library.
“NiCHE Conversation with Emma Moesswilde,” NiCHE, December 8, 2021.
“Cold, Agriculture, and Memory in 1740s Norfolk,” Phi Alpha Theta, Beta-Pi Chapter, Georgetown University.
“Podcasting the Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change” – Part of panel “The Art and Craft of Podcasts: Teaching, Learning, and Researching,” Georgetown Humanities Initiative.
“Professor Dagomar Degroot and Ph.D. Student Emma Moesswilde Podcast Their Way Through Climate History,” Shelby Roller. https://college.georgetown.edu/news-story/professor-dagomar-degroot-and-ph-d-student-emma-moesswilde-podcast-their-way-through-climate-history/
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2025- Committee member, American Society for Environmental History
2025 Reviewer: Environment and History
2023-2024 Program Committee member, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2022 Reviewer: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
PROJECTS AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
2022- Outreach Coordinator, Environmental History Now
Creator and co-producer, Ecotones Now, https://www.ecotonesnow.com
2020- Editor and map designer, Tipping Points, https://www.climatetippingpoints.com
2024 President, Environment and History Research Seminar, Georgetown University
Co-host, Climate History Podcast, HistoricalClimatology.com
2016 Community Matters in Maine Research Fellow, Maine Conservation Voters, Augusta, Maine
2015 Summer Outreach Intern, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine
LANGUAGES
English (native); German (reading, writing, and speaking); French (reading); Scottish Gaelic (basic reading)
SKILLS
Microsoft Office; ArcGIS Online; newsletter development (Substack, Constant Contact), audio editing, podcast production (Substack, SoundCloud, GarageBand)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Agricultural History Society
American Historical Association
American Society for Environmental History
Environmental Historians Action Collaborative