Andrew Stuhl is Associate Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Bucknell University. He teaches environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental activism, Arctic studies, community-based research design, and community-engaged project management.

He has conflicting feelings about writing in third person.

My current research centers on the history and impacts of Tropical Storm Agnes (1972), the worst natural disaster in the United States at the time and a transformative event for the Susquehanna Valley. Motivated by both the obvious legacies Agnes has left in the region – think high-water marks, commemorative plaques, memorials in downtown public spaces – and the increasing intensity and frequency of rain events in the mid-Atlantic, this project asks “What can we learn from the experiences of Tropical Storm Agnes to prepare for future floods?”

As of January 2025, this research has led to both popular media and scholarly publications. The popular media includes a 60 minute multi-media performance based on collected interviews – and performed by community leaders and Agnes survivors – a series of workshops on story-telling for climate justice, and a 60 minute documentary produced by northeastern Pennsylvania’s NPR and PBS affiliate. The scholarly publications include an article detailing methods I have used with students and community partners to build an inclusive, participatory space for addressing historic catastrophic floods in light of present day planning for the future. In June 2024, I helped convene scholars, artists, and practitioners around the theme of “environmental trauma” in the workshop “Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds.”

In addition to my work in and with the Susquehanna Valley, I have written on issues relating to climate change, environment, history, human rights, and science. My book, Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (University of Chicago Press, 2016) gives a backstory to modern climate change and globalization through an environmental and colonial history of science in the North American Arctic.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with loved ones, organizing my community for justice, running, biking, lifting weights, playing sports, reading, noodling on the guitar and piano, cooking, and traveling.