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Appointments (Present)
Analysis Affiliate, Division of Historical past, Harvard College, 2018-present
Assistant Analysis Professor, Local weather Change Institute, 2017-present
Managing Editor, Harvard’s Digital Historic Atlas (DARMC)
Appointments (Previous)
Submit-doctoral Fellow, Division of Historical past, Harvard College, 2015-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Local weather Change Institute, College of Maine, 2015-2017
Lecturer on the Historical past of Science (U.S. and European well being and welfare), Harvard College 2015-16
Educating Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Harvard College, 2008-2014
Training
PhD, Harvard College
MA, Harvard College
BA, Washington College in St. Louis
Alexander Extra’s analysis focuses on the affect of local weather change on inhabitants well being and the financial system. By utilizing each local weather science and historic data, Extra brings latest drastic adjustments right into a broader perspective, one that allows stark comparisons between present and historic developments in temperature, air pollution, pandemic illness, and excessive climate, all of which immediately affect meals manufacturing, human well being, financial prosperity, and political stability. He’s creator of a number of landmark research of pre-industrial local weather and air pollution and an energetic contributor to the sphere of planetary health. He presently holds an appointment within the Department of History at Harvard College and can also be Assistant Analysis Professor on the Climate Change Institute. Combining the experience and sources of the 2 establishments, Extra leads a undertaking on the affect of local weather change on human and ecosystem well being and the financial system within the final millennium. Along with educational journals, his work has been featured in The Washington Submit, CNN, Pure Historical past Journal, The Guardian, Fashionable Science, Forbes, Smithsonian Journal, Der Spiegel, Archaeology Journal, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemein, Atlas Obscura, Eos, Science et vie, and greater than 150 different print and on-line publications (see media web page).
The implications of his knowledge deliver him to check authorities response to environmental and public well being crises. He’s finishing a e-book on the origins of welfare and well being care coverage within the western world, a long-standing curiosity that gained him a place within the Workplace of Senator Ted Kennedy whereas he was drafting the Reasonably priced Care Act (Obamacare). Extra’s pursuits have taken him to conventional archival repositories, in addition to to expeditions to archaeological websites throughout Europe, North America and Oceania, together with a number of underwater surveys within the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and South Pacific. Extra is a broadcast photographer, specializing in underwater, archaeological and wildlife topics associated to his analysis.
Raised and educated in Europe within the early a part of his life, Extra moved completely to New York Metropolis to finish his secondary training. He attended school in Chicago and finally Washington College in St. Louis. Instantly after commencement, he continued his research in an interdisciplinary PhD program at Harvard College, the place he has taught ten totally different programs and earned as many educating awards. He has supervised seven theses, with matters starting from the creation and evolution of Medicaid and Medicare laws in the USA, to the institution of the general public well being system in post-revolutionary Mexico and the Sultanate of Oman, the early historical past of contemporary overseas relations, the main function of girls within the creation of the World Well being Group (WHO) and the primary meals enrichment insurance policies in interwar United States.
Dr. Extra is a frequent contributor in media protection of local weather change, financial historical past and the historical past of well being. His work extends into the non-profit world, the place he has supervised a Harvard-Columbia student-run, public-health/environmental initiative in Bolivia—now a full-fledged NGO, Refresh Bolivia—securing preliminary funding with two grants from the Ford Fund. Dr. Extra additionally serves as Managing Director of the World Ocean Forum, and as Communications and Training Director at Blue Ocean Watch, two climate-oriented ocean non-profits. Dr. Extra is a fellow of the Explorers Club, a former junior fellow of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. and a recipient of the Arango Fund and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Analysis Grants.
