Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Robert and Jean Holz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Director, Center for Culture, History, and Environment (2007 - )
My research and teaching interests span the history of ecology, nature, and health in twentieth-century America across scientific and popular culture. Particular research areas include the history of ecology, environment and health, 20th century life sciences, science in America, science and film.
Working on “America’s Rubber Empire: Science, Commerce, and Disease in the Making of Firestone Plantations Company,” a historical account of the 1926 Harvard Medical Expedition to Liberia and the environmental and social consequences that followed in its wake.
Gregg Mitman's blog at the Huffington Post
KRWG-TV, Aggie Almanac, May 10, 2007, “New Mexico State University Social Justice Symposium.”
NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, December 11, 2005, “The Myth and Men Behind King Kong.”
WPR, Here on Earth, September 4, 2005, “March of the Penguin.” [RealAudio]
NPR, Science Friday, February 28, 2003, “Science and Nature Filmmaking.” [RealAudio]
“Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature.” Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
“In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History.” Environmental History 10 (2005): 184-209.
“Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded-Age America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 600-635.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 2004
Glaxo-Smith-Kline Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2004-2005
National Library of Medicine Research Fellow, 2003.
Senior Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 1999-2000
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung-Fellow, 1999-2000
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellow, Princeton University, 1997-1998
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1986-1987
Env St 402/Hist Sci 350 Green Screen: Environmental Film in History and Action
Hist Sci/Med Hist/Env St 513 Environment and Health in Global Perspective
Hist Sci 919 Geographies of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Hist Sci/Med Hist/Env St 919 Ecology and Disease in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Hist Sci 921/SOC 901 Core Seminar: Science, Technology and Medicine in Society
Isis, Editorial Advisory Board (2004-2006).
Cultural Geographies, Editorial Advisory Board.
Environmental History, Editorial Board.
Journal of the History of Biology, Associate Editor.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Consulting Editor.
Michitake Aso, “Colonial Ecologies: Environment, Health, and Politics in French Indochina, 1890-1940.”
Amrys O. Williams, “Head, Heart, Hands, and Health: 4-H, Ecology, and Conservation in Wisconsin, 1930-1950.”
Anna Zeide
Paul Erickson, “The Politics of Game Theory: Mathematics and Cold War Behavior, 1944-1984.” Director, 2006.
Camilo Quintero, “Scientists, Collectors, Illustrators, and Field Assistants in U.S. Ornithological Explorations of Colombia.” Director, 2007.
Erika Milam, “Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology, 1900-1974.” Co-director, 2006.