FELLOW 2026/27
Lachlan Fleetwood is a historian of science, empire, geography, and environment. He completed a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge in 2020 and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale University. This was followed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at LMU Munich, where he is also a global fellow. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He is currently researching histories of habitability, empire, environmental determinism, and terraforming in Central Asia and Mesopotamia.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Fleetwood, Lachlan. “The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads”. Environment and History 32, no. 1 (2026): 109–134.
- Fleetwood, Lachlan. “Himalayan Mountaineering, Imperial Masculinity and Altitude Records Before Everest”. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 52, no. 2 (2024): 231–259.
- Fleetwood, Lachlan. “Histories of Habitability from the Oikoumene to the Anthropocene”. WIREs Climate Change 14, no. 5 (2023): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.840.
- Fleetwood, Lachlan. “Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was”. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51, no. 2 (2023): 211–243.
- Fleetwood, Lachlan. Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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