# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-robert-mcneill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:13:09.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-robert-mcneill"
name: "John Robert McNeill"
slug: "john-robert-mcneill"
description: "John Robert McNeill is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University. He is best known for \"pioneering the study of environmental history\". In 2000 he published Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental changes on an unprecedented scale, primarily due to the energy system built around fossil fuels."
tagline: "American environmental historian, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.162169333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Ri2hAAC/john-mc-neill"
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    title: "John Robert McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "J. R. McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump