Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen has been associated with the Center since its founding in 2002-2003, when he was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford. Jon was an environmental journalist and science writer for 20 years before coming to Stanford. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature, High Country News, and many other newspapers, magazines, journals, and radio and television shows. Jon was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University in 2003-2004, before returning to Stanford to work on a Ph.D. in History.

He was a Distinguished Departmental Scholar for Academic Year 2008-2009, supported by a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and was honored with a Prize for Excellence in First-Time Teaching in 2005-2006. He teaches a course entitled "Climate Change in the West: A History of the Future" in the History Department and Earth Systems Program. He is currently completing his dissertation and book, "Critical Habitat: A History of Thinking with Things in Nature." His broader research and teaching interests include environmental history, natural history and the history of biological and ecological sciences, climate change, conservation, western history, nature in metropolitan regions in the United States and around the world, digital humanities, and the history and current changes in media, information technologies, and journalism.

For a complete CV, list of publications, and links to publications and other work, please visit Jon's personal website.