Lydia Barnett

Lydia Barnett is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, specializing in early modern European environmental and scientific history. Her work bridges science studies, environmental humanities, and global history. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2011) and has held positions at the University of Michigan and Bates College before joining Northwestern in 2015.

Her research focuses on intersections between religion, environment, and labor in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World. Major publications include *After the Flood* (2019), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize, and recent articles in *Isis* and *History of Science*. Current projects include *Earth Work* (on Little Ice Age knowledge networks) and the transatlantic wetlands history initiative.

• Teaching areas: Science/medicine history, disaster politics, colonialism & environment
• Awards: E. Leroy Hall Teaching Award, NSF grants, Huntington Library Fellowship
• Affiliations: Shifting Shorelines project (Buffett Institute), Science & Human Culture Program

Her work frequently explores marginalized knowledge systems through interdisciplinary frameworks, emphasizing pre-modern roots of global environmental thought.