Gregory Cushman

Gregory T. Cushman is a global environmental historian specializing on the Andean and Pacific Worlds. He joined the University of Arizona history faculty in fall 2022. He teaches courses on Latin America, environmental history, the tropical world, and HIST 222 Poop: A Global History. Much of his teaching and scholarship has involved interdisciplinary collaborations with natural and social scientists, and he is a founding member of the Arizona Environmental Humanities Collaborative. PhD students he has supervised received tenure-track positions at Creighton University, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, University of Rhode Island, and Virginia Military Institute.