William "Bill" Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was President of the American Historical Association for 2012.
Excerpt from the Science and Democracy Lecture by William Cronon, along with excerpts from the panel commentary by David Blackbourn, Peter Galison, and Mike Hulme. Cronon's lecture, "Saving Nature in Time: Why Environmentalism Needs History as much as Science," was given on November 29, 2007, at Harvard University. The Science and Democracy Lecture Series is hosted by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. More information on this talk: www.hks.harvard.edu