
Dr Adrian Howkins
PhD (Austin,TX), MA (Austin,TX), MA (Austin,TX)Hons) (Austin,TX)
Expertise
Current positions
Reader in Environmental History
Department of History (Historical Studies)
Contact
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Research interests
I am an environmental historian with research interests in the polar regions, national parks and protected areas, and religion and the environment. I have worked extensively on the history of Antarctica, and I am a co-PI on the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research site in Antarctica. I am currently writing a book on the history of this region. As a member of the Public Lands History Centre at Colorado State University, I was closely involved with several projects on the history of US national parks. I am in the early stages of developing a project on the history of national parks in the United Kingdom. I have recently started a course at Sarum College in Salisbury to become a self-supporting minister in the Church of England. Alongside this training I’m developing an interest in histories of religion and the environment.
Please get in touch if you might be interested in pursuing a research degree in any of my areas of research interest.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Paul Hutchinson Library of Congress Research Application
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
06/05/2024 to 05/09/2024
British Academy Visiting Fellow (Alessandro Antonello)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/07/2023 to 31/10/2023
Beautiful and Relatively Wild: Applied Environmental Histories of Britain's National Parks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/03/2023 to 31/08/2024
Seeing the invisible, hearing the inaudible: revealing estuarine mysteries through art and science
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
In what ways can engagement in the nocturnal human-environment entanglements of the River Erme foster curiosity and care for the river by those living within its catchment, and does this…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/02/2022 to 31/05/2022
Antarctic Mosaic: An Environmental History of the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Principal Investigator
Description
I am working with two co-authors (a glaciologist and a geographer) on a book-length project on the environmental history of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The intended publication date is 2022.Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
09/09/2019 to 08/09/2022
Thesis supervisions
Science and Politics in Maoist China
Supervisors
Meteorology and Politics in Republican China, 1912-1949
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2022Finding Shackleton’s ship: why our fascination with Antarctica endures
Finding Shackleton’s ship: why our fascination with Antarctica endures
Foreward
The Antarctic Politics of Brazil
Political Conflict in the Antarctica Peninsula
Antarctic Resolution
From the Heroic Age to today
Limnology and Oceanography Letters
Research sites get closer to field camps over time
PLOS ONE