David Igler

David Igler is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and a specialist in the history of the Pacific Ocean, the American West, California, and the environment. He is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. A third-generation Californian, he and his family live in Pasadena.

His new book is All Species of Knowledge: Discovery, Failure, and Natural History in the Pacific, published by Oxford University Press in 2026.