Author: Miles Powell

Currently holding a German Research Foundation (DFG) grant cohosted by the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Miles Powell was previously an associate professor of environmental history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He researches marine and global environmental history, with a special focus on the themes of commodification, endangerment, and human–predator interactions. His current research projects include a global environmental history of human interactions with sharks (under contract with Harvard University Press), a study of world ports in the Anthropocene, and an environmental history of Pacific nitrogen flows.