Paul Nauert

Paul G. Nauert is a global environmental historian whose research and teaching interests include the responsibility of the American Empire in accelerating the climate crisis, the geopolitics of climate (in)justice, war and ecology, environmental justice studies, and transimperial patterns of agriculture across the Pacific World. He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon where he resides with his husband and two dogs. He also is a co-founder and co-organizer of Queer@EH, a growing network of LGBTQIA+ identifying environmental humanities scholars.

While a graduate student at Stanford, Nauert helped to found and organize SECH. Deeply committed to classroom practice, Nauert is proud to have won the Walter J. Gores Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Excellence in First-Time Teaching Award from the Deptartment of History. His doctoral research won funding support from the Harry S. Truman Library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center. He received his PhD in June 2023 after defending his dissertation, “Climate Crucible: American Choices in Germany, Japan, and the Making of the Great Acceleration, 1939-1953.”