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John L. Brooke is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Research at The Ohio State University, with a courtesy appointment in Anthropology. He is a leading scholar in environmental and climate history, integrating earth-system science with human history. His recent work explores the long-term origins of bubonic plague and its relationship with climatic shifts and Eurasian migrations.
Brooke has held prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, and ACLS, among others. His 2014 book Climate Change and the Course of Global History redefined understandings of environmental impacts on human societies. He collaborates with interdisciplinary initiatives like the 'Project on European Health since the Paleolithic' and OSU's History Constellation in Environment, Health, Technology, and Science.
His research bridges natural and social sciences, addressing themes such as prehistoric disease emergence, steppe trade networks, and the Holocene's climatic drivers of epidemic diffusion.
