Ted Steinberg, Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, has worked as a U.S. environmental historian for nearly twenty years. He received his doctoral degree from Brandeis University under the supervision of David Hackett Fischer and Donald Worster. Beginning in 1990, he spent three years at the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also the recipient of a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2000 American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellowship and was the 2006 B. Benjamin Zucker Fellow at Yale University.
Steinberg's publications have focused on the intersection of environmental and social history. His books are: American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn (Norton, 2006); Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford, 2002; National Outdoor Book Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in History); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Oxford, 2000; Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in General Non-Fiction ); Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Nature (California, 1995); and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (Cambridge, 1991; Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History; Old Sturbridge Village E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize). An updated edition of Acts of God, with a new chapter on Hurricane Katrina, was published in 2006. A second edition of Down to Earth will be published in 2008.
Steinberg has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Natural History, Orion, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane, The Leonard Lopate Show, The Dennis Prager Show, The Michael Smerconish Show, Marketplace Money, You Bet Your Garden, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Mischke Broadcast, Martha Stewart Living Radio, To the Best of Our Knowledge, and CBS Sunday Morning. He lectures frequently in both academic and non-academic settings.
He is currently working on an environmental history of New York City. |
