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Micah Muscolino is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), affiliated with the Division of Arts and Humanities. He holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley (1999) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2006). Specializing in the environmental history of modern China, his research examines intersections of ecology, militarization, and state policy. He is the author of two seminal books: Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (2009) and The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950 (2015), which explore fishery collapses and wartime ecological devastation respectively.
Current research focuses on water and soil conservation in China’s Loess Plateau since the 1940s, using archival and fieldwork data from Gansu Province. His work bridges academic and applied spheres through the Historical Perspectives on China’s Environment series for chinadialogue.net. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and Harvard University, and taught at St. Mary’s College of California, Georgetown University, and the University of Oxford before joining UCSD in 2018.
- Education: B.A., UC Berkeley (History); Ph.D., Harvard University (East Asian Studies)
- Awards: Mellon Fellowship, NEH Grant, British Academy Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Grant
Teaching includes undergraduate courses on modern Chinese history and environmental history, as well as graduate seminars on historiography. He mentors Ph.D. students across late Qing, Republican, and PRC eras. His research emphasizes global connections, such as China’s maritime disputes in the South China Sea and transnational energy histories.
