Marco Armiero (Ph.D. in Economic History) is a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council, Italy. After two short periods of research at the University of Kansas and Brown University, in the last years he has been working at the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, at the Environmental Science, Policy and Management Department at UC Berkeley, and at the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University.
He has written two books and several articles on the environmental-social history of natural resources (forests and sea), on environmental conflicts, and on environmental historiography. With Stefania Barca, he is the author of the first Italian university textbook in environmental history (Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Roma: Carocci 2004). In English, he has published several essays and edited the book Views from the South. Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th -20th cent.), Napoli: CNR, 2006.
He is currently working on two projects: a book on landscape and nation in modern Italy, and a research program on the environmental history of migrations.