Perrin Selcer is an Assistant Professor at Department of History & Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. He works at the intersections of environmental history, history of science, and international relations. His current research focuses on how experts affiliated with UN agencies made the global human environment a central concern of the international community. His 2011 dissertation, “Patterns of Science: Developing Knowledge for a World Community at Unesco,” which won the best dissertation prize from the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences, was supported by the Social Science Research Council.