Adam David Sundberg, PhD

Department

History

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague
  Adam Sundberg, 2022

Articles

• Journal of the History of Environment and Society
  Adam Sundberg, Building the Social Cascade: Connecting Culture, Disaster, and Persecution in the 1730s
  8, p. 29-57 2024
• Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions
  Adam Sundberg, Dikes, Ships, and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer during the Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s 2024
• Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories
  Adam Sundberg, Derek Lee Nelson Shipworms and Maritime Ecology in the Age of Sail 2023
• Journal of Experiential Education
  Adam Sundberg, Echo Koehler Bridges to Civic Health: Enhancing Shared Service-Learning Collaboration in Nursing and History
  46, p. 261–280 2022
• Water History
  Seohyun Park, Scot McFarlane, Adam Sundberg, Tino Mager, Henk van Schaik, Arie Den Boer, Priyanka Sheth & Aashini Sheth Water history in the time of COVID-19: cancelled conversations
  12, p. 229-249 2021
• Exhibition
  Adam Sundberg, Exhibiting Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate Change’: Objects-as-Evidence & the Challenge of Engagement
  39, p. 58-69 2020
• Historisch Jaarboek Groningen
  Adam Sundberg, Gemeenschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid en weerstand: De Kerstvloed van 1717 in Groningen [Communal Responsibility & Resistance: The Christmas Flood of 1717 in Groningen], p. 32-49 2018
• The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History/Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
  Culling the Herds?: Regional divergences in Rinderpest mortality in Flanders and South Holland, 1769-1785
  14.3, p. 31-55 2018
• Agricultural History
  “Happy Land: Women Landowners in early West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1813-1845.”
  90.4, p. 484-510 2016
• Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
  “An Uncommon Threat: Shipworms as a Novel Disaster.”
  40.2, p. 122-138 2016
• Environmental History
  “Claiming the Past: History, Memory, and Innovation following the Christmas Flood of 1717.”
  20/2, p. 238-261 2015

Publications

• Arcadia
  “Molluscan Explosion: The Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s.” Environment & Society Portal. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7307.
  14 2015
• “Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague: Nature-induced Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age, 1672-1760.” 2015

Presentations

• "Dijken, Cultuur, en Wormen: Milleugeschiedenis van de Paalworm-epidemie, 1730-33," [Dikes, Culture, and Worms: Environmental History of the Shipworm Epidemic, 1730-33] Conference of the Stichting voor de Middeleeuwse Archeologie, Hoorn, The Netherlands. 2016
• "Teaching Global Environmental History," Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History. Seattle, USA 2016
• "A Decade of Disaster: Cattle Plague during the 1740s in the Netherlands," 8th European Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference, Versailles, France 2015
• "The Importance of the "New": Novelty as a Condition of Disaster Response in Early Modern Times," Workshop: Resilience in disastrous times: the processing of historical catastrophes in the Low Countries (ca. 1600-1850), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. 2015
• "An Unknown Threat: Shipworms as a Novel Disaster," N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Conference, Brussels, Belgium. 2015