Department of History

Chris Sellers

Associate Professor (Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, 1992; M.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1992)

E-Mail

christopher.sellers@sunysb.edu

Office

SBS N301A

Phone

631-632-1412

Fax

631-632-7367

Research Interests

U.S. Environmental and Cultural, History of Health and Medicine, Transnational Industrial and Urban History

Publications

BOOKS-IN-PROGRESS:

Unsettling Ground: Suburban Nature and Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (offered advanced contract by UNC Press, forthcoming Spring 2010)

Dangerous Trade: Industrial Hazards and Globalization in the Twentieth Century (co-edited with Joseph Melling of University of Exeter, based on December 2007 Stony Brook conference, under consideration by Temple University Press)

The Uneven Development of Industrial Hazards: Lead and Oil in the U.S. versus Mexico (new project)

Wealth and Inequality in the Modern Corporate Age: A Course Reader (new project)

ARTICLES-IN-PROGRESS

"Cities and Suburbs in Environmental History," for Douglas Sackman, editor, Companion to Environmental History (Blackwell, forthcoming)

with Jeffrey Sellers, "Placing Environmental Politics: The U.S. Versus Germany"

"Suburban Nature, Class, and Environmentalism in Levittown," in Diane Harris, Editor, [Levittown in History] (Pennsylvania University Press, forthcoming)

"Cross-Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard" (under submission to Medical History

EDITED VOLUMES:

Co-Editor with Christine Rosen, Special Issue of Business History Review on "Business and the Environment," 73 (Winter 1999)

Co-Editor with Gregg Mitman and Michelle Murphy, Forthcoming Special Issue of Osiris on "Landscapes of Exposure: Environment and Health in Historical Perspective," 19( 2005)

BOOK

Christopher C. Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES:

“Cities and Suburbs in Environmental History,” essay for TeacherServe Website entitled Nature Transformed, posted by National Humanities Center, 2008

Co-contributor, “What Is African-American Environmental History?,” in Diane Glave, ed., “What’s Next for African American Environmental History?,” ASEH News 17(Spring, 2006), special insert

“Race and Nature in Suburban Passage,” in Diane Glave and Mark Stoll, eds., “To Love the Wind and Rain”: Essays in African American Environmental History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), 93-119

With Gregg Mitman and Michelle Murphy, “A Cloud over History,” Osiris 19(2005):1-1

“The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water: Between Nations, Knowledges and Material Flows,” Osiris 19(2005):182-202

“9-11 and the History of Hazard,” Journal of History of Medicine and the Life Sciences 58(2003):255-91

“The Dearth of the Clinic: Lead, Air and Agency in Twentieth-Century America,” Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 58(2003):255-9

“Thoreau’s Body; Towards an Embodied Environmental History,” Environmental History 4, no. 4 (1999):487-514

With Christine Rosen, “The `Nature’ of the Firm: Towards an Ecocultural History of Business,” Business History Review 73(1999):577-600

“Body, Place and the State: The Makings of an `Environmentalist’ Imaginary in the Post-WWII U.S.,” Radical History Review 74(Winter 1999):31-64

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