Currently holding a German Research Foundation (DFG) Eigenestelle grant cohosted by the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Miles Powell was previously an associate professor of environmental history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He researches marine and global environmental history, with a special focus on the themes of commodification, endangerment, and human–predator interactions. His first book, Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation (Harvard University Press, 2016), uses discourses of extinction to explore connections between racial attitudes and environmental thought in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century America. His current research projects include a global environmental history of human interactions with sharks (under contract with Harvard University Press), a study of world ports in the Anthropocene, and an environmental history of Pacific Ocean nitrogen flows. His research has appeared in Environment and History, Environmental History, International Review of Environmental History, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, and edited anthologies. He currently serves on the editorial board of Environment and History.