Faculty Finds: Dean of the College John W. Boyer
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Dean of the College John W. Boyer notes, “I have doing a great deal of reading on the 1930s and 1940s in Central Europe, particularly on the Nazi occupation of Vienna between 1938 and 1945, for the book that I am writing on modern Habsburg and Austrian history. But I have also been reading Kyle Harper’s The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton University Press, 2017), a study of the environmental and epidemiological disasters that befell the Roman Empire in its final centuries. It is a fascinating analysis of the impact of climate and disease on the development and fall of a great Empire.”
