Tamara L. WhitedProfessor

Education

  • PhD and MA, University of California at Berkeley
  • AB, Harvard University

Academic Interests

  • Modern Europe
  • Modern France
  • World Environmental History

Profile

Tamara Whited teaches courses on environmental history, modern France from 1789 to the present, postwar Europe, and World War One, in addition to honors colloquia and graduate seminars on a variety of topics.

Whited is the author of Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France (Yale University Press, 2000) and the principal author of Northern Europe: An Environmental History (ABC-Clio, 2005), a synthesis that treats the topic from the Paleolithic era to the present. Her current research focuses on the environmental history of food production, namely alpine dairying and common property regimes in the Western Pyrenees of France.