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

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.

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