Richard Keller is Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and Associate Dean of the International Division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent of which is Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, and was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently writing a global history of the environment for Oxford University Press.
