James Morton Turner is a researcher at Wellesley College on the recent history of U.S. environmental politics and policy, including public lands, climate change, and science and technology. He received a B.S. from Washington and Lee University in 1995, an A.M. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1996, a Ph.D. in History (History of Science) from Princeton University in 2004, and a certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 2005.