Julia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is an intellectual and political historian of modern Japan with a sharp interest in combining intellectual and environmental history. Her questions about how we grapple with the natural world have led to research on the ecological efflorescence in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a manifesto on the future of environmental history for the Rachel Carson Center, and Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology, which received the American Historical Association’s 2002 John K. Fairbank prize. With Ian Miller and Brett Walker, she published Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power, and is author of more than 30 articles and book chapters. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the NEH, ACLS, SSRC, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton’s IAS, and the Japan Foundation. Her three most recent books are The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach written with Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams (2020), Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right (2020), and Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right (2022).