David Moon (historian)

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David Moon is anniversary professor in history at the University of York. He is a specialist in the rural life of the Russian Empire from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.[https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/moon/#profile David Moon.] University of York. Retrieved 17 June 2015. Moon also has an interest in environmental history and has received an International Network Grant for £123,000 from the Leverhulme Trust for research in that area.[http://www.environmentalhistories.net/?p=708 Leverhulme funds place-based environmental history project led by David Moon in Russia.] Environmental Histories. Retrieved 17 June 2015.

Moon earned his BA at the University of Newcastle and PhD at the University of Birmingham. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Moon's The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 (2013) was selected as one of the Financial Times' history books of the year for 2013.