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SAM A. WHITE CURRICULUM VITAE

Dulles Hall 259 230 W. Annie and John Glenn Ave Columbus, OH 43210

OSU Department of History [email protected]

+1 614-599-0552

Education Ph.D. History, Columbia University (2008) Dissertation: “Ecology, Climate, and Crisis in the Ottoman Near East” Advisor: Richard Bulliet Examination Fields: Environment and technology, early modern economic history, global

history, Ottoman history M.A. Middle East Studies and Modern History, University of St. Andrews (2002) Thesis: “Inventing Iraq: The British in Mesopotamia and the Making of the Iraqi Mandate

1914-1923” First Class Honours

Academic Positions Associate Professor, Ohio State University (2016- ) Norman Freehling Visiting Professor, University of Michigan (2018) Assistant Professor, Ohio State University (2013-2016) Assistant Professor, Oberlin College (2008-2013) Teaching Assistant, Columbia University (2004-2006) Instructor, Parkland Community College (2003)

PUBLICATIONS Monographs A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. ¨ Ohio Academy of History publication award (2018) ¨ Sixteenth Century Society Roland H. Bainton prize (2018)

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Turkish translation: İsyan İklimi: Erken Modern Dönemde Celali İsyanları. İstanbul: Alfa Yayınları, 2013.) ¨ Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Prize (2012) ¨ Turkish Studies Association M. Fuad Köprülü Award (2011-2012) ¨ British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society joint first-place prize for the best book in Middle

East Studies (2012) Edited Volume White, Sam, Christian Pfister, and Franz Mauelshage, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of

Climate History. London: Palgrave, 2018.

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Single-Authored Articles and Chapters in Reviewed Publications White, Sam. “Climate History and Culture in the United States,” WIREs Climate Change (in

press). “North America 1500-1800,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White,

C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 295-306. “A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early

Modern Europe,” in Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean, ed. Nükhet Varlık. Kalamazoo, MI: Arc Humanities Press, 2017, 91-116.

“Unpuzzling American Climates: The New World and the Making of a New Science.” Isis 106 (2015): 544-66.

“‘Shewing the difference betweene their conjuration, and our invocation on the name of God for rayne’: Weather, Prayer, and Magic in Early Colonial Encounters,” William and Mary Quarterly 72 (2015): 33-56.

“Environments,” in The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, ed. Joseph C. Miller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015, vol. 2, 190-92.

“Cold, Drought, and Disaster: The Little Ice Age and the Spanish Conquest of New Mexico,” New Mexico Historical Review 89 (2014): 425-58. ¨ New Mexico Historical Society Gilberto Espinosa Prize (2015)

“Animals, Climate, and History,” Environmental History 19 (2014): 319-28. “The Real Little Ice Age,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44 (2013): 327–352. “The Little Ice Age Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: A Conjuncture in Middle East

Environmental History,” in Water on Sand: The Environmental History of the Middle East, ed. Alan Mikhail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“Climate Change in Global History,” in A Companion to Global Environmental History, ed. J. McNeill and E. Stewart. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

“From Globalized Pig Breeds to Capitalist Pigs: A Study in Animal Cultures and Evolutionary History.” Environmental History 16 (2011): 94-120. ¨ American Society for Environmental History Leopold-Hidy Prize (2012) ¨ Agricultural History Society Wayne D. Rasmussen Prize (2012)

“Middle East Environmental History: Ideas from an Emerging Field.” World History Connected 8:2 (2011).

“Review Article: Early Modern Ottomans in Global History.” The Journal of Global History 6 (2011): 345-49.

“Rethinking Disease in Ottoman History.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 549-67.

Multi-authored Articles and Chapters in Reviewed Publications Izdebski, Adam, Lee Mordechai, and Sam White. “The Social Burden of Resilience: A

Historical Perspective.” Human Ecology 46 (2018): 291–303. Xoplaki, Elena, Jürg Luterbacher, Sebastian Wagner, Eduardo Zorita, Dominik Fleitmann,

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail M. Sargent, Sam White, et al. “Modelling Climate and Societal Resilience in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Last Millennium.” Human

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Ecology, April 19, 2018, 1–17. Pfister, C., S. White, and F. Mauelshagen, “Introduction,” in The Palgrave Handbook of

Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 1-16. Brönniman, S., C. Pfister, and S. White, “The Archives of Nature and Society,” in The

Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 25-34.

Pfister, Christian and Sam White, “Personal Sources,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 47-64.

Pfister, C., R. Brázdil, J. Luterbacher, A. Ogilvie, and S. White, “Early Modern Europe,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 263-94.

Brönniman, S., S. White, and V. Slonosky, “North America and Europe 1800-1970,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 307-18.

White, S., C. Pfister, and J. Brooke, “Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 329-52.

Pfister, Christian, and Sam White, “The Year without a Summer: 1816,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, ed. S. White, C. Pfister, F. Mauelshagen. London: Palgrave, 2018, 551-62.

White, Sam, Richard Tucker, and Ken Sylvester, “Climate and American History: The State of the Field,” in Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America, ed. Bernd Sommer. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 109-36.

Cusack, D., J. Axsen, R. Shwom, L. Hartzell-Nichols, S. White, and K. Mackey, “Review: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering Strategies,” Frontiers in Ecology 12 (2014): 280-87.

Fischer, E. V., K. R. M. Mackey, D. F. Cusack, L. R. G. DeSantis, L. Hartzell-Nichols, J. A. Lutz, J. Melbourne-Thomas, R. Meyer, D. A. Riveros-Iregui, C. J. Sorte, J. R. Taylor and S. A. White, “Is Pretenure Interdisciplinary Research a Career Risk?” Eos 93 (2012): 311-312.

Articles and Chapters in Review White, Sam. “The Little Ice Age in the Eastern Mediterranean, 14th-17th Century,” in A

Companion to the Environmental History of the Byzantine Empire, ed. J. Preiser-Kapeller et al., Brill.

Book Reviews Review of The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia: Amasya 1576‒1643, by Oktay

Özel, Der Islam 95 (2018): 246-47. Review of Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History,

by Alan Mikhail, International Journal of Turkish Studies 23 (2017): 115. Review of Endlose Kälte: Witterungsverlauf und Getreidepreise in den Burgundischen

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Niederlanden im 15. Jahrhundert, by Chantal Camenisch. Renaissance Quarterly 70 (2017): 744-45.

Review of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig, by Mark Essig, Agricultural History 90 (2016): 121-22.

Review of Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World, by Greg Cushman, Technology and Culture 55 (2014): 494-95.

Review of All of the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present, by Alon Tal, Environmental History 19 (2014): 577-78.

Review of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale, Technology and Culture 54 (2013), 970-71.

Review of Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire by Birsen Bulmuş, Economic History Review 66 (2013): 940-42.

Review of Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Edmund Burke and Diana Davis, American Historical Review 118 (2013): 296-97.

Review of The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–1072 by Ronnie Ellenblum, Mediterranean Historical Review 28 (2013): 70-72.

Review of Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail, International Journal of Middle East Studies 44 (2012): 167-68.

Review of Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman, Technology and Culture 52 (2011): 182-83.

Review of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming, H-Environment (August 2011).

Conference Proceedings “Climate Change and Crisis in Ottoman Turkey and the Balkans, 1590-1710,” in

Proceedings: International Conference on Climate Change in the Middle East – Past Present and Future, 20-23 November 2006. Istanbul: Istanbul Technical University, 2006.

Magazine and Newspaper Articles “What the first Thanksgiving can teach us about adjusting to climate shock,” Washington

Post, November 22, 2017. “New Worlds of Climate Change: The Little Ice Age and the Colonization of North

America,” HistoricalClimatology.com, October 2017. http://www.historicalclimatology.com/blog/archives/10-2017.

“Was it Bad Luck or Climate Change?” History New Network, September 17, 2017. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166921

“Climate Change: Top Ten,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, April 2015, https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/4202015-top-ten-origins-climate-change.

“Crises climatiques: 15000 ans d’histoire.” Sciences Humaines, Apr 2014, 32-37. “State of the Field: Historians and Climate Change,” American Historical Association

Perspectives 50:7 (October 2012).

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Internet Projects Creator, Historical Climatology Bibliographic Database Contributor, Legacies of the Enlightenment (http://enlightenmentlegacies.org/)

Selected Conference Papers and Invited Talks “Climate and Migration to Colonial America,” International Conference of Historical

Geographers, Warsaw, Poland, July 16, 2018. Invited paper, “Climate and Migration: Perspectives from the Little Ice Age,” Migration:

Discipline and Displacement, University of Texas, April 26, 2018. “England’s Search for a Northwest Passage in the Context of a Changing Climate,”

American Society for Environmental History, Riverside, California, March 15, 2018. Invited presentation, “Cultural Consequences of the Little Ice Age in Europe,” Symposium:

The Coldest Centuries in 8,000 Years: The Little Ice Age Causes and Human Consequences, University of Colorado Center for the Study of Origins, November 3-4, 2017.

Invited presentation, “The Ottoman Empire and the Little Ice Age,” Workshop: Collapse! What Collapse? Societal Adaptations to Abrupt Climate Changes before Global Warming, Yale University, October 20-22, 2017.

Session organizer and chair, Past Global Changes Open Science Meeting (PAGES OSM), Zaragoza, Spain, May 9-13, 2017.

Invited speaker, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America,” Iowa State University Department of History, April 10, 2017.

Invited presentation, “Drought and Crisis in the Classical Ottoman Empire: New Evidence, Confirmation, and Revisions,” Climate and Societies in the Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia: Current State of Knowledge and Research Perspectives. Aix-Marseilles University, Aix-en-Provence, March 8, 2017.

Panel organizer and chair, “Drought and Deluge in History,” American Historical Association, Denver, January 6, 2017.

Invited lecture, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and America’s Colonial Beginning,” Georgetown University Department of History, December, 13, 2016.

Invited speaker and workshop leader, University of Maryland National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), immersion distinguished scholar workshop series, Annapolis, October 24-25, 2016.

“The Climate of the Early Republic in Perspective,” Society for the History of the Early American Republic, New Haven, July 22, 2016.

Invited speaker, Past Global Changes (PAGES) Volcanoes in Climate and Society workshop, Columbia University Lahmont-Doherty Earth Observatory, June 6-8, 2016.

“Seeing the Forest from the Trees and the Continent from the Forest: Trees and Early European Efforts to Understand the North American Environment,” American Society for Environmental History, Seattle, March 31, 2016.

Invited speaker for the workshop “Climate Change and Crisis in the Middle East,” University of Michigan, March 11, 2016.

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Invited discussant for the Environmental History Interest Group seminar, University of Michigan, March 10, 2016.

“‘Destroyed with cruell diseases’: Crisis, Perception, and Migration from Little Ice Age Europe to the First Colonies in North America,” invited seminar paper for the Yale Agrarian Studies Colloquium, New Haven, October 2, 2015.

“Cold, Drought, and Disaster: The Spanish Entradas as a Window on Climate Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in the Pueblo Southwest,” International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, July 8, 2015.

“Climatic Challenges during Early French Exploration and Colonization in Canada,” European Society of Enviromental History, Versailles, July 1, 2015.

“Climate and Ecological Change in Ottoman Lands,” invited presentation for the workshop Climate and Society in Byzantine and Ottoman Anatolia, 300-1900CE, Princeton University, May 1-3, 2015.

“Climate Change and History in Turkey,” invited presentation for Turkey in Theory, a workshop of the University of Arizona Center for Turkish Studies, April 3, 2015.

“‘Shewing the difference betweene their conjuration, and our invocation on the name of God for rayne’: Weather, Prayer, and Magic in Early American Encounters,” invited lecture, Binghamton University, October 30, 2014.

“Rain Prayers, Climate Reconstruction, and the Disastrous Weather of the First American Colonies,” invited presentation, The Tropics Rule: a Symposium Honoring Mark A. Cane's Contribution to Climate Science, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, October 20, 2014.

“Was a Sad Tale Best for Winter? Shakespearean Theater and the Culture of the Little Ice Age,” World Congress of Environmental History, Guimarães, July 8, 2014.

“Populations, Perceptions, and English Initiative in the Wake of the 1580s-90s Disasters,” Climate Change and Global Crisis in the Seventeenth Century, Institute for Advance Studies in the Humanities, Essen, May 4-5, 2014.

“Climate, the Little Ice Age, and Ottoman History," University of Texas Center for Middle East Studies invited lecture, February 2014.

“Cold, Drought, and Disaster in the Spanish Conquest of New Mexico,” American Historical Association, Washington, January 4, 2014.

“When was the Little Ice Age? Evidence and Challenges of Periodization,” American Historical Association presidential panel, Washington, January 2, 2014.

“Unpuzzling the American Climate: New World Experience and the Prehistory of Climatology,” European Society for Environmental History, Munich, August 24, 2013.

“Cold, Drought, and Disaster in the Spanish Conquest of New Mexico,” Workshop on Climate and Colonial History, Georgetown University, June 4, 2013.

Organizer and presenter for roundtable discussion “Teaching the Global Environmental History Survey,” American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, April 4, 2013.

Invited speaker, Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, University of Guelph, March 29-31, 2013. Plenary speaker, Second International and Global History Conference, UC Berkeley, March

15-16, 2013. “Climate and Early American Colonial History,” American Historical Association, New

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Orleans, January 5, 2013. Invited participant, Workshop on Climate Change and Human Response, Harvard

University Center for the Environment, November 28, 2012. “The Mediterranean Crisis of the 1590s: The View from Istanbul,” Connected Histories of

the Middle East Africa and South Asia, Pomona College, February 4, 2012. “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and the First European Colonies in North America,”

University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History, January 27, 2012. “Climate Change, Crisis, and Resilience: Perspectives from History,” University of

Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies, January 26, 2012. “Livestock Plagues in the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” Middle East Studies

Association, Washington, DC, December 2, 2011. “A Cold Welcome? Climate, the Little Ice Age, and the First European Colonies in North

America,” Yale Environmental History Colloquium, November 15, 2011. “The Commodification of Animals: History and Prospects,” Centre interdisciplinaire

d’études et de recherches sur l’Alemagne, Moulin d’Andé, France, September 7, 2011. “The Little Ice Age and the First Settlements in North America,” Historical Climatology:

Past and Future, German Historical Institute in Paris, September 6, 2011. “First Colonial Winters: Comparing Experiences of the Little Ice Age, 1607-10,” American

Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, April 14, 2011. “Little Ice Age Climate and Crisis: The Great Ottoman Livestock Plague and the

Environmental History of Epizootics,” invited talk, Early Modern Global History, Seminar, Georgetown University, January 28, 2011.

“The Little Ice Age and the Ottoman Empire,” World History Association/Istanbul Şehir University Symposium, Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History, Istanbul, October 22, 2010.

“Natural Disaster in European and Ottoman Perceptions,” American Society for Environmental History, Portland, March 12, 2010.

Roundtable presentation: “The Climate Crisis and Energy Transition: Lessons from History?” American Society for Environmental History, Portland, March 13, 2010.

“Prospects for Ottoman Environmental History,” Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, Ohio State University, April 18-19, 2009.

“The Ottoman Empire in the Little Ice Age and the General Crisis,” invited talk, Ohio State University, March 3, 2009.

“Timber Supply and Forest Management in the Ottoman Middle East,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Tallahassee, February 25-March 1, 2009 (also panel organizer).

“The Little Ice Age and the Making of the Celali Rebellion,” Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, November 17-20, 2007.

“Küçük Buzulçağının Biyolojik Sonuçları”, Workshop on Climate Change in Ecosystems and Society, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, June 29-30, 2007.

“Chinese Pigs in Early Modern Europe,” European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam, June 3-7, 2007.

“Epidemics and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire,” Workshop on Disease in Global

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Environmental History, York University, Toronto, March 9-10, 2007. “Climate, Ecology, and Crisis in the Ottoman Near East,” American Society for

Environmental History, Baton Rouge, February 28-March 3, 2007. TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Courses Taught

Climate Change: Mechanisms, Impacts, Adaptation The Little Ice Age Introduction to the Discipline of History Graduate Readings in Environmental History Global Environmental History Animals in Human History American Environmental History Globalization and Capitalism Money and Other Fictions: Early Modern Capitalism and Finance Food in World History Climate Change and Disasters in World History Big History US History since 1865 Western Civilization since 1815

Fellowships Huntington Library, Elise G. Mead Foundation Fellowship (2012) John Carter Brown Library Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship

(2011) Andrew Delaney Faculty Fellowship, Oberlin College (2011-12) Delmas Foundation grant for research in Venice (2007-2008) American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) research fellowship (2006-2007) Shawn Scholar for New Directions in Historical Research, Columbia University (2007) FLAS Summer Fellowship in Turkish for study at the Harvard-Koç University Intensive

Ottoman Summer School (2006) ARIT Summer Language Fellowship for study at Bosphorus University, Istanbul (2005) Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University (2003-2007)

Advising

Ph.D. dissertation committee (external evaluator): Sam Dolbee, “The Locust and the Starling: People, Insects, and Disease in the Late Ottoman Jazira and After, 1860-1940,” New York University (2017)

Ph.D. dissertation committee (external evaluator): Mar Grau, “Adaptation before Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Historical Perspective on Adaptation to Droughts in Terrassa (1600-1870s, NE Spain),” Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (2017)

Doctoral candidacy examination committee: Katie Lang, Ohio State University (2016)

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M.A. defense committee: Katie Lang, Ohio State University (2015) Senior thesis supervisor: Emily Arons, “Opposition to Surface Mining in West Virginia,”

Oberlin College (2010) Senior thesis reader: Claudia Randrup, “French Colonial Forestry in Madagascar,”

Oberlin College (2010)

University Service Ohio State University STEAM Factory, director of university engagement (2016-present) STEAM Factory, STEAM Exchange planning committee (2014-present) STEAM Factory, event and workspace design committee (2014-15) Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, judge (2014) OSU Department of History Undergraduate teaching committee (2013-14, 2017-) Graduate studies committee (2015-17) Advisory committee (2014-16) Salary advisory committee (2015-16) Workplace climate committee (2014-15) US environmental history search committee (2014-15) Oberlin College Environmental Studies Program Committee (2009-2013) General Faculty Library Committee (2012-2013) Jerome Davis Student Award Committee (2010-2013) Columbia University President, Graduate History Association (2005-2006)

Service to the Profession Professional Societies Co-founder and director, Climate History Network (climatehistorynetwork.com) (2013-

present) List administrator, [email protected] (2015-present) American Society for Environmental History, ASEH conference local arrangements

committee chair (2017-present) American Society for Environmental History, ASEH conference program committee

(2017-present) American Society for Environmental History, Alice Hamilton prize committee (2013) American Society for Environmental History, organizer and convener of the ASEH

conference climate history breakfast (2011-13) Journals and Presses

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Editorial board, Journal of Social History (2011-2016) Article manuscript peer reviews for: International Journal of Middle East Studies, WIREs

Climate Change, Environmental History, Environment and History, Anthropocene Review, The Medieval Globe, History Compass, Agricultural History, Climate of the Past, Archives and Records, Journal of Arabian Studies, Arcadia, Nature Sustainability, European Journal of Economic History

Book manuscript peer reviews for: Pearson/Longman, Yale University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Bloomsbury Academic, Ohio University Press, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, Routledge, Brill, Cambridge University Press, University of Nebraska Press, Oxford University Press

Academic Institutions and Foundations Past Global Changes (PAGES) Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of

Societies (CRIAS) steering committee (2018-) External Reviewer for the Education University of Hong Kong Committee on Research

and Development (2017) External reviewer for the Israeli Humanities Council (2015-16) External reviewer for Formas (Swedish Research Council) (2014) Expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WGII AR5) Professional membership: American Historical Association, American Society for

Environmental History, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Big History Association

Selected Educational and Public Outreach

Events and Lectures “Climate, Disease, and History,” Biology Club, Ohio State University, April 5, 2018. “Climate History,” History Club, Bexley, Ohio, April 3, 2017. Co-organizer, STEAM Factory Symposium on Academia, Ohio State University, May

14, 2016. “Current Events Through a Historical Lens: Climate History,” Ohio History Club/OSU

Phi Alpha Theta, January 27, 2016. “Environmental Problems and Engineered Solutions: Some Perspectives from History,”

OSU Engineers for a Sustainable World, February 2015. “Climate Change: A Historical Perspective,” Science Education Council of Ohio,

Columbus, OH, January 27, 2015. “Teaching and Writing about Climate Change: A View from History,” professional

development workshop leader and discussant, West Virginia Consortium for Faculty and Course Development in International Studies (FACDIS) 34th annual workshop: Global Climate Change – History Meets Society, Morgantown (WV), November 6-7, 2014.

Discussant, “Workshop: The Climate of History - Four Theses.” Ecologies Reconsidered: Landscape, Nature, Thought, and Memory, Ohio State University, March 2014.

“Climate, History, and Squiggly Lines,” STEAM Exchange: Climate Change, Ohio State

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University, January 2014. Co-presenter, “Climate and Crisis: The Seventeenth Century and Today” Phi Alpha Theta

lunch talk, Ohio State University, January 2014. Interviews Podcast interview, Benjamin Franklin’s World, June 2018

https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/episode-189-sam-white-the-little-ice-age/ In “11,000 years ago, our ancestors survived abrupt climate change,” CNN, 3/26/2018,

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/health/climate-change-hunter-gatherers/index.html New Books Network, December 15, 2017. http://newbooksnetwork.com/sam-white-a-

cold-welcome-the-little-ice-age-and-europes-encounter-with-north-america-harvard-up-2017/

The Author’s Corner, October 23, 2017. https://thewayofimprovement.com/2017/10/23/the-authors-corner-with-sam-white/

In “Getting Warmer: Historians on Climate Change and the Anthropocene,” AHA Perspectives, February 2017 (https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2017/getting-warmer-historians-on-climate-change-and-the-anthropocene).

In “Three Ohio State professors work together to teach multidisciplinary climate change course,” Columbus Dispatch, 11/26/2016 (http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/11/26/three-ohio-state-professors-work-together-to-teach-multidisciplinary-climate-change-course.html)

In “Climate change isn’t hot topic in presidential election,” Columbus Dispatch, 10/31/2016 (http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/10/30/climate-change-isnt-hot-topic-in-presidential-election.html)

In “New climate change course takes interdisciplinary approach,” The Lantern, 5/7/2016 (http://thelantern.com/2016/05/new-climate-change-course-takes-interdisciplinary-approach/)

In ASC News, March 2016 (http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/new-course-offers-interdisciplinary-approach-climate-change)

Santa Fe Humane Society, February 2016 (http://sfhumanesociety.org/trending/high-desert-pawedcast/)

History of Science Society, January 2016 (www.facebook.com/isis.journal). Origins: History Talk, December 2015 (origins.osu.edu/history-talk). Climate History Podcast, November 2015 (www.historicalclimatology.com/interviews). Origins: History Talk, November 2015 (origins.osu.edu/history-talk). In “Historians: Go Big or Go Home,” Boston Globe, 12/14/2014, (bostonglobe.com/

ideas/2014/12/14/historians-big-home/6WFFq3tanP7nMdru0kzfVK/story.html) AHA Spotlight, June 2014 (blog.historians.org/2014/06/aha-member-spotlight-sam-

white). Fifteen-Minute History, February 2014 (15minutehistory.org). Oberlin Review, December 2012 (http://oberlinreview.org/2515/news/off-the-cuff-with-

sam-white-author-and-assistant-professor-of-history/)