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Dr. Vicki Szabo is a Professor of History at Western Carolina University’s College of Arts and Sciences, specializing in medieval environmental history, the medieval North Atlantic, and the history of whaling. She holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University, alongside an MA from Cornell and a BA from Kalamazoo College. Her research is funded by organizations like the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation, and she leads an international project examining molecular, textual, and archaeological evidence of whale use in the medieval North Atlantic.
Her research interests span environmental history, the medieval North Atlantic world, Viking Age studies, and animal history. She has authored Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea (2008) and is developing a textbook on medieval wildlife. Her work bridges disciplines, combining historical analysis with archaeological and genetic methodologies.
Key grants include support from the National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her current projects emphasize transdisciplinary collaboration, such as the dataARC initiative for research infrastructure. She also explores the historical ecology of marine mammals, including grey whales in Scotland and North Atlantic right whales.
Her advising and grants highlight her leadership in environmental humanities and transatlantic studies. She collaborates with institutions globally to integrate molecular biology, textual analysis, and archaeology, creating distributed long-term observing networks (DONOP) to study historical environmental changes.
