John Robert McNeill#
| Membership Number: | 5791 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Ri2hAAC/john-mc-neill |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4033-4967 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present University Professor, Georgetown University
- 2003 - 2006 Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environment and International Affairs, Georgetown
- 1993 - 2003 Professor, Georgetown University History Dept. and Walsh School of Foreign Service
- 1990 - 1993 Associate Professor, Georgetown University History Dept. and Walsh School of Foreign Service
- 1985 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Georgetown University History Department and Walsh School of Foreign Service
- 1983 - 1985 Assistant Professor, European history, Goucher College
- 1981 - 1983 Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
- 1982 - 1983 Researcher, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
- 1975 - 1976 Instructor in Geography and Economics, Athens College (Athens, Greece)
Fields of Scholarship
- World history
- Global history
- Interdisciplinary history
- Environmental history
- Transnational history
- Anthropocene
Honours and Awards
- 2019 President, American Historical Association
- 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award, American Society for Environmental History
- 2018 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History for his important work in integrating two recent branches of the study of history: global history and environmental history. (Other winners include Aleida Assmann, lorraine Daston and Jan de Vries)
- 2017 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of only ca 200 historians)
- 2016 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick (UK)
- 2014 World History Association, Pioneer of World History Award
- 2011 - 2013 President, American Society for Environmental History
- 2010 Beveridge Prize, American Historical Association (for Mosquito Empires)
- 2010 Toynbee Prize “to recognize social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity”. Other winners in include J. Osterhammel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Natalie Zemon Davis and George Kennan
- 2003 Distinguished Visitor, Yale University, International Security Studies
- 2000 Canterbury Fellow, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1997 - 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1996 - 1997 Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship
- 1996 Garrod Lecture in Archaeology, Cambridge University
- 1992 - 1993 Fulbright (research award in environmental history, New Zealand)
- 1987 - 1988 Fulbright (research award in Greece, Italy, Spain)
