J. R. McNeill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

J. R. McNeill

Professor, American environmental historian, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1954

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: professor, historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Robert McNeill (born 1954) is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University.
He is best known for "pioneering the study of environmental history".
In 2000 he published Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental damage on an unprecedented scale.