Dr. Ellen Stroud :: Publications

Publications and Projects

Dead As Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body. Book Project. Research supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the National Science Foundation.

Seeing the Trees: How Cities Brought Forests Back to the Northeastern United States. Book project. Manuscript under revision. Research supported by fellowships from Columbia University, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“Dead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death.” In Andrew Isenberg, ed., The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape and Urban Space (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006).

“Postcards from the Edges of a Field.” Environmental History 10:1 (January 2005), 96-97. Invited essay for the journal’s tenth anniversary issue.

“Does Nature Always Matter? Following Dirt Through History.” History and Theory, 42 (December 2003), 75-81.

“Reflections From Six Feet Under the Field: Dead Bodies in the Classroom.” Environmental History 8:4 (October 2003), 618-627.

“Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon.” Radical History Review. Issue 74: Special Issue on Environmental Politics, Geography and the Left (Spring 1999), 65-95. Awarded the ASEH Alice Hamilton Award, 2000. Reprinted in Louis S. Warren, ed., American Environmental History, Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History Series (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003).

Book Review. Review of Gilbert Osofsky's Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Negro New York, 1890 -1930, 2 ed. (1971; reprint, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee Publishers, 1996). H-Net Reviews, 9/97. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/index.cgi.

Selected Academic Presentations

“Toxic Bodies: The Problem of People as Pollution.” Guest Speaker, Harvard School of Public Health. February 15, 2005.

“Ashes to Toxic Ash: Cremating the Modern, Modified Body.” American Society for Environmental History Conference. April 3, 2004.

“Dead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death.” Invited Talk, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Conference. December 12, 2003.

“Toward A New ‘Body’ of Environmental History.” Invited Talk, State-of-the-Field Session on Environmental History. Organization of American Historians Conference. April 4, 2003.

“Leisured Landscapes and Working Woods: Recreating the New Hampshire Forests.” Invited Talk. Case Western Reserve History Department. November 1, 2002.

“The Return of the Forest: Urbanization and Reforestation in the Northeastern United States.” Invited Talk. Cincinnati Seminar on the City. October 10, 2002.

“Who Owns the Public Lots? Defining Public Land in Early-20th-Century Maine.” Paper presentation. American Society for Legal History Conference. November 2001.

“Metropolitan Nature: Urban Leisure, Rural Work and the Return of the Forest.” Paper presentation. American Society for Environmental History Conference. April 1999.

“Bringing Back the Trees: Urban Watershed Protection and Reforestation in the Northeastern United States.” Paper presentation. American Historical Association Annual Meeting. January 1999.

“The Importance of Place: Bringing Environmental History into the Secondary School Classroom.” Invited lecture. Westchester Land Trust Teaching Workshop. March 1998.

“Changing Borders, Changing Centers: Toward a Landscape History of Harlem.” Paper presentation. American Society for Environmental History Conference. March 1997.

“A Slough of Troubles: Environmental Racism at the Columbia Slough.” Paper Presentation. Environmental Cultures/Historical Perspectives Conference. April 1996.