Organized in conjunction with the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment (HSMTE) Workshop, this roundtable will explore the current state of the histories of science and environment at Oxford and identify areas of student interest between the two subdisciplines. Environmental history and the history of science share an ever-growing body of scholarship. Over the last few years, the intersection between the two fields has received attention for the potential to investigate sites of knowledge-making and questions of sustainability that inform present action (Hersey & Vetter, 2019). However, the promise found in the ecotone between these subfields remains at risk of methodological and disciplinary tensions. The latter is especially noticeable at Oxford. Environmental history does not hold a place as an established area of study in the history faculty, such as the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, which itself acts as one of the various loci for scholars interested in environmental questions.

As environmental history continues to coalesce at Oxford, what compelling questions, methods, and issues emerge at the overlap of the history of science and environment? Looking forward, how might we encourage the flourishing of scholarly terrain “neither here nor there” between the history of science and environmental history?