91³Ô¹Ï

Julia Thomas

Department of History

Office
470 Decio Faculty Hall
91³Ô¹Ï, IN 46556
Phone
+1 574-631-7266
Email
jthomas2@nd.edu

Professor

  • The Anthropocene
  • Interdisciplinary environmental research — science and the humanities
  • Modern Japanese history: politics, culture, environment
  • Mutualistic societies
  • Fascism and the rise of the Right

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Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas, a professor of History at 91³Ô¹Ï, is part of a group that is working to rename the current epoch in the history of the earth to "Anthropocene." The "anthro" label suggests that the literal structure of the earth and its biosphere have been changed by human behaviors.

Julia Adeney Thomas, a history professor and expert on fascism at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in Indiana, told Global News in an email she has “little doubt” Trump fits the definition of a fascist, primarily for his remarks on political violence and violence carried out by his supporters — most notably in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“We are now on a fundamentally unpredictable planet in ways that we have not experienced for the last 12,000 years,” says Julia Adeney Thomas, a historian at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, in Indiana.