Julia Fine

Julia Fine is a PhD student at Stanford University in the field of British history. She is broadly focused on the food and environmental history of the British Empire, with a particular interest in the relationship between shifting energy and agriculture regimes in the 19th and 20th centuries. At Stanford, she also co-chairs the Eurasian Empires Workshop at the Humanities Center, and helps organize the Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop. 

She holds a MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge, where her research on the environmental and labor history of salt production in 19th-century Bengal received the CA Bayly Prize for Best Dissertation. Prior to entering the PhD program, she worked as a postgraduate fellow with the Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures project at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington DC. Her research has been recognized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the American Society for Environmental History, and the World History Association.