Jerry Jessee

Jerry Jessee is an assistant professor of the history of science and global history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His book project, Radiation Ecologies: Nuclear Fallout and the Birth of the Ecosphere, investigates how scientific research tracing nuclear fallout in the environment during the Cold War sparked a new era of global environmental consciousness, which helped usher in the modern environmental era. It is under contract with the University of Washington Press, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series.