Ellen Stroud specializes in U.S. Urban and Environmental History. After five years in the history department at Oberlin College, she is now joining the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College. She is finishing her first book, Seeing the Trees: How Cities Brought Forests Back to the Northeastern United States, and is also researching 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.