David Peter Dell Munns earned his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 2003. After teaching at Imperial College London between 2006 and 2009, he now teaches in New York City at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, promoting curiosity, scholarship, and enthusiasm among his students. His first book, published with MIT Press, was entitled A Single Sky: How An International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy. His second book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest to Control Climate in the Cold War (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) explores the pre-history of the scientific understanding of climate change and the Anthropocene. Now under contract is his co-authored third book An Excremental History of the Space Age. He's always developing website is www.worldoftrons.com
