Assistant Professor
Michael Guenther received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, and his M.A. & Ph.D from Northwestern University. His research examines the social and political dimensions of science in the eighteenth-century British Empire. His broader fields of interest include environmental history, colonial American history, the age of Enlightenment, and the history of early modern science. He is also seeking to close the gap between his avid interest in gardening and the meager results he seems to encounter each summer.
Courses Regularly Taught:
HIS 295: Science & Society: From the Age of Newton to Darwin
HIS 220: U.S. Environmental History
HIS 235: Britain in the Modern World, I
Seminars Taught:
HIS 310: Enlightenment and Revolution in Early America
HIS/ENV 395: Environmental History of the Midwest & Great Plains
