Stewart Weaver

A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

Distinguished leaders, educators, and humanitarians will be honored during this spring’s commencement ceremonies.

Stewart Weaver, a professor of history whose teaching interests include Great Britain, Ireland, India, exploration, and the environment, offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”

Professor of history Stewart Weaver has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow to continue work to preserve the rich culture and history of the Ladakh mountain region and its people.

In his new book, professor of history Stewart Weaver chronicles journeys of discovery from the pre-historic trek of humans across the land bridge over the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century deep sea voyages of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.