Julia Thomas
Department of History
Professor
- The Anthropocene
- Interdisciplinary environmental research — science and the humanities
- Modern Japanese history: politics, culture, environment
- Mutualistic societies
- Fascism and the rise of the Right
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Thomas in the News
This Conversation Podcast / WEHC Public Radio
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July 25, 2025
Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas, a professor of History at Notre Dame, is part of a group that is working to rename the current epoch in the history of the earth to "Anthropocene." The "anthro" label suggests that the literal structure of the earth and its biosphere have been changed by human behaviors.
October 29, 2024
Julia Adeney Thomas, a history professor and expert on fascism at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, told Global News in an email she has “little doubt” Trump fits the definition of a fascist, primarily for his remarks on political violence and violence carried out by his supporters — most notably in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Nature
March 08, 2024
“We are now on a fundamentally unpredictable planet in ways that we have not experienced for the last 12,000 years,” says Julia Adeney Thomas, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.