Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Gretchen Heefner (Northeastern University)

Gretchen Heefner teaches and researches the history of the US in the world, with a focus on militarization, the environment, and the surprisingly intimate relations between national security regimes and the everyday. Her latest book, Sand, Snow and Stardust: How U.S. Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments (University of Chicago, 2025), explores how the U.S. military has acquired and used information about extreme environments since the 1940s. Her first book, The Missile Next Door (Harvard University Press, 2012), was a Choice Outstanding Academic title.

This event is in-person and also available via Zoom. Please use this link to register.