Timothy C. Weiskel graduated magna cum laude from Yale University. He trained as a social anthropologist and historian as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Following fieldwork in West Africa he received his DPhil from Oxford University and returned to the United States to teach anthropology and history at Williams College, Yale, and Harvard.
His research concentrates upon belief systems within cultures and how core cultural beliefs can either facilitate or block change over time. In particular, he has examined how dominant belief systems serve to impede or enable different cultures to perceive the changing environmental challenges that confront us all as a human family.
Weiskel helped to found the Cambridge Climate Research Associates, which consults with organizations to create on site and online training programs for institutions, universities, corporations, municipalities, and national governments. The goal is to assist these organizations in analyzing the climate impact of global carbon consumption and help them envision the necessary transformations we must all now undertake to enable the human community to move to a post carbon-fueled world.