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

Scholarly Works

BOOKS-IN-PROGRESS:

Green in Black and White: Environmentalism and Suburbanizing in Post-WWII Atlanta (forthcoming, 2012 or 2013)

Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and Environmentalism in Post-WWII America (April 2012 from UNC Press)

http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8775.html

Dangerous Trade: Industrial Hazards across a Globalizing World (edited with Joseph Melling, December 2011, Temple University Press)

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2127_reg.html

Dangerous Trade on Facebook

Introduction to the volume

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

“Work, Industry and Health," in Mark Jackson, editor, Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (forthcoming, Oxford)

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

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:

"Cross‑Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard," Medical History 54(July, 2010): 315-40

"Suburban Nature and Environmentalism in Levittown," in Dianne Harris, editor, Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 281-313

"Cities and Suburbs," in Douglas Sackman, editor, A Companion to American Environmental History (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2010),462-82

"Environmental Justice as a Way of Seeing," Environmental Justice 1(December 2008): 177-178

With Barry Castleman, "Code of Sustainable Practice in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety for Corporations," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 14(2008):234-35

“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):1-17