UMD Presenters Share Research at American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting 2023

UMD faculty and graduate students present their research.

At the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Boston from March 22-25, three presenters from the Department of History shared their research. Justin Shapiro (PhD 2020) gave a paper on "The Carbon Dioxide Effects Research and Assessment Program (CDERA): Federal Climate Research Efforts in the United States, 1975-1981," Sophie Hess (PhD student  Advisor Rick Bell) presented on "Red Soil and White Water: Iron Extraction and the Landscape of Settler Colonial Violence in Eighteenth-Century Maryland," and Associate Professor Thomas Zeller talked about "Loving Parks, Embracing Highways: Bernard DeVoto on Wilderness and Roads."