
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
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