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Curriculum Vitae
Courses
American Environmental
History
Car
Country: The Automobile and the American Environment
Consumer
Nation: 20th Century American Consumer Culture in the 20th
Century
Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment
US Urban Environmental History
Contact:
Office: Olin Rice, 249C
Tel# (651) 696-6803
Email: wells@macalester.edu
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Chris
Wells
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Chris Wells specializes in U.S. environmental history, with
additional interests in the history of technology, cultural
history, and urban history. He has published articles in
Agricultural History and Technology and Culture, and is currently
working on a book manuscript, Car Country: Automobiles, Roads,
and the Origins of the Modern American Landscape, 1890-1960,
which focuses on the environmental ramifications of the nation?s
collective decision to reorient its landscape around automobiles
before 1960. He?s also fascinated by contemporary movements?such
as green architecture, the New Urbanism, and Smart Growth?that
are trying to remake the world in a more sustainable fashion,
and is actively involved in Macalester?s new EcoHouse and
the Clean Energy Revolving Fund (CERF). His 2007-2008 courses
include American Environmental History, Car Country, Consumer
Nation: Twentieth-Century American Consumer Culture, and
the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar.
Visit
Professor Wells' environmental studies web page
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