Dr. Anya Zilberstein

Biography

Anya Zilberstein holds a PhD in History from the Science, Technology and Society Program at MIT, which she completed in 2008. She joined the History Department at Concordia University in 2007, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Programs Advisor. Zilberstein's research interests encompass the history of climate science, food sciences, the British Empire, as well as the intersections of animals and race. Her main book project titled 'Poor Creatures: Food Welfare for People and Animals' explores the intertwined debates of animal welfare and human welfare in the context of food security during the rapidly changing empire of Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her notable publications include 'Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America' published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and awarded the Berkshire Conference Book Prize, along with four co-edited volumes in scholarly journals. She encourages prospective graduate students to reach out regarding work in environmental history, specifically climate and animal history, as well as the history of science and food within the Atlantic world from 1500 to 1800.

Research Interests