Charlie Mayhew

Research Interests: Early modern science; environmental history; history of environmental sciences; history of physical sciences; intellectual history; philosophy of science; science and religion.

Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar in the History of Science. He studies historical attempts to derive aesthetic, moral, or political principles from scientific knowledge, focusing especially on environmental science, ecology, and natural history. His interests span from sixteenth-century British farmer's almanacs to the present-day climate movement. He is always interested in the question: What does science mean for the non-specialist?

He received his B.Sc. from Yale University, double-majoring in History and Physics. Prior to his PhD, Charlie worked as a climate policy researcher and advocate at the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, with a focus on refrigerant emissions reductions and the Montreal Protocol.

Previous Degrees:

B.Sc., Physics, History, Yale University