Dr. David Fouser teaches environmental history, European history, and world history. He earned his BA and MA at California State University, Northridge, and his PhD at the University of California, Irvine. His areas of expertise include 19th-century Britain and the British empire, European history, world history, cultural history, environmental history, and the history of food. He has taught widely in Southern California, with past affiliations at UC Irvine, Cal State Northridge, Chapman University, and Laguna College of Art & Design. More recently, he has taught Environmental Science at University College Cork (Ireland) and worked for the United Nations Environment Program’s Global Environmental Monitoring System for Water (GEMS/Water).
Course Offerings
- History/Environmental Studies 32: Global Environmental History
- History 1: Western Civilization to 1500
- History 2: Western Civilization since 1500
- History 33: World History to 1500
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History 34: World History since 1500
Recent Publications
- “A Biography of Modern British Bread.” In Acquired Tastes: Stories About the Origins of Modern Food, edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel and Anna Zeide. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021.