Dr. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is an Associate Professor of British History, University of Chicago. His research interests include the British Empire, the Enlightenment, science and environmental history, political economy, and cornucopianism and the anthropocene. He is author of two books “Enlightenment’s Frontier: the Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism” (Yale, 2013); and “Green Victorians: the Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District” (Chicago, 2016).
This event is sponsored by the European Union Center of California.