Emma Moesswilde (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her research investigates the relationships between climate change, agricultural practice, and rural life, with a focus on the Northern Atlantic world before 1800.
Emma’s dissertation project, “Agricultural Responses to Seasonal Climate Change in the British Northern Atlantic, 1690-1816” incorporates multidisciplinary methods and evidence to understand how rural communities, especially rural women, responded and adapted to climate change over the course of the early modern period.
Born and raised in midcoast Maine, Emma has lived and worked in rural communities and environments for much of her life, including projects with Maine Farmland Trust and Maine Conservation Voters. She earned a B.A. cum laude in History and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College in 2018.
Her scholarly work has contributed to publications such as Nature and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her writing has been featured at Environmental History Now and Active History, among other public-facing publications. Emma also co-hosts and produces podcasts on environmental and climate history. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she can often be found looking for dinner ingredients at the farmers’ market or hiking with her dog, Mouse.