Lecturer
Contact
100 Bay State Road, Room 333
617-358-1559
tfitts@bu.edu
Education
1983 Ed.M. Harvard University
1974 B.A. Amherst College (Political Science)
Bio
Ted Fitts teaches interdisciplinary courses in “American Environmental History.” A central question examines the reciprocal relationship between nature and culture over the past 400 years. His courses investigate how humans change and modify the natural world around us—and how nature responds to those modifications. Nature is thus an agent of change within this discipline, and it is an active participant in historical and human processes rather than something that is merely passive. Ted reminds himself of that perception every time he gets covered with dirt in his gardens, bitten by mosquitoes while hiking, and charmed by the wonder of a sunflower.