Peder Anker’s teaching and research interests lie in the history of science, ecology, environmentalism, design, and environmental philosophy. He is the author of From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press, 2010), which explores the intersection of architecture and ecological science, and Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order
in the British Empire, 1895-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which investigates how the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker’s latest book explores the history of ecological debates in his country of birth, Norway, The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Anker received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. He is Professor of History of Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.