Ellen Stroud specializes in U.S. Urban and Environmental History. After five years in the history department at Oberlin College, she joined the faculty of the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also director of the Environmental Studies Program. Her first book, Nature Next Door: Cities and the Rebirth of Northeastern Forests, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press in 2012. She is currently working on her second book project, Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body. Her publications include articles in Environmental History, History and Theory, and the Radical History Review.
