Scott Gabriel Knowles is Professor and Head of the Department of History, Drexel University. His work focuses on the history of disaster worldwide. This year he is the co-convener (with Kim Fortun) of the River School, an investigation of the Mississippi River from an Anthropocene studies perspective. Knowles is a research fellow of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware. He has previously been a research fellow or visiting faculty member of CIGIDEN/Catolica Chile (2018), KAIST (2017), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2016), the Rachel Carson Center (2016), and the University of Tokyo (2015). In 2014 he participated in the Anthropocene Campus of the HKW in Berlin. Knowles is the author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America (2011), and is series co-editor (with Kim Fortun) of “Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster” (UPenn Press). His work on the history of risk and disaster has appeared in the Natural Hazards Observer, Journal of Policy History, Technology and Culture, and Engineering Studies–he has also written for popular venues such as Slate, Conservation Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Hill. Knowles is completing a new book titled The United States of Disaster. Twitter: @USofDisaster Website: https://slowdisaster.com/
