Peter Thorsheim is a professor of modern British history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since 2000. While pursuing his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was awarded a fellowship to spend a year at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. A decade later, he served as faculty director of Charlotte’s study abroad program at Kingston University in London, and he regularly teaches a UNCC study abroad course that includes ten days of experiential learning in Scotland and England. He has served on the British book prize committee of the American Historical Association, the national screening committee for the Fulbright US student program to the UK, and as a resident historian on Viking ocean cruises along the British and Norwegian coastlines and in the Baltic. He is also vice president of the Davidson Film Club in Davidson and is a frequent speaker to community groups, the media, and academic audiences. Peter is the author of two books: Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800, published by Ohio University Press in 2006, and Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. His most recent book is a co-edited volume titled A Mighty City under Threat: The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2020. His current research focuses on the history of chemical weapons in Britain and the British Empire.