Associate Professor
B.A., University of Oslo, 1990
M.A., University of Oslo, 1993
M.A., Harvard University, 1998
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999
Peder Anker's teaching and research interests lie in the history of science, ecology, environmentalism, and design, as well as environmental philosophy. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Dibner Institute and been a visiting scholar at both the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Columbia University. He is the author of From
Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press, 2010), which explores the intersection of architecture and ecological science, and
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order of the British Empire, 1895-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which investigates how the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Professor Anker's current book project explores the history of ecological debates in his country of birth, Norway. Links to his articles and up-to-date information about his work are available at
http://www.pederanker.com.
