Project Leaders

Emmanuel Kreike
Princeton University, Department of History – African History, Environmental History, Professor of History

John Haldon
Princeton University, Department of History – Byzantine History, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History (emeritus); Professor of Byzantine History & Hellenic Studies (emeritus)

Nicola di Cosmo
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton – Chinese and Mongolian History, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies

Janet Kay
Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology – Early Medieval History and Archaeology, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer

Tim Newfield
Georgetown University, Departments of History and Biology – Medieval Environmental History, Assistant Professor of History and Biology

Lee Mordechai
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of History – Late Antique Environmental History, Senior Lecturer

Executive Director

Jennifer Loessy
Princeton University, Department of History – Manager, Collaborative History 

Team Members

Warren Eastwood
University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dominik Fleitmann
University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences

Adam Izdebski
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Institute of History, Byzantine History Department – Byzantine, Ottoman and Mediterrranean Environmental History

Jürg Luterbacher
Director, Science & Innovation, and Chief Scientist, World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva

Alice Morandy
Princeton University, History Department

David J. Patterson
Princeton University, Shelby Cullom Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-2024

Neil Roberts
Plymouth University, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abigail Sargent
Princeton University, Writing Program

Katherine Snow
Princeton University, CCHRI & HMEI & Max-Planck-Institute/Jena

Elena Xoplaki
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Department of Geography

Associated Researchers

Dagomar Degroot
Georgetown University, Department of History

Inga Labuhn      
Lund University/Sweden, Department of Geology (Quaternary Sciences)

Sturt Manning
Cornell University, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory

Mihailo Popović
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Medieval Research

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Medieval Research

Nükhet Varlık
Rutgers University, Department of History

Sam White
University of Helsinki, Department of Political History