Environmental History, Historical Geographic Information Systems, Early Modern Europe, Anthropocene, Introduced Species
Research Focus
Northern European Environmental History. History of Disaster. History of Science and Technology. History of Climate. Geographic Information Systems for History
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