Robert Gioielli Publishes New Book and Awarded Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant
19.05.2014
Robert Gioielli's new book, Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, was recently published by Temple University Press. The book focuses on environmental activism and grassroots movements in America's industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s, featuring case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago. This book is based on Robert's project as a Carson Fellow from September 2010 until June 2011, entitled "Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals."
Robert will be giving a talk for the Baltimore City Historical Society on June 7, 2014, 1-3 pm, on "Public Health Challenges: Urban Pest Control and Inner-City Highway Construction." He will discuss the opposition to highway construction in Baltimore, which is also detailed in his new book.
Robert is currently in Sleepy Hollow, New York, on a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center to conduct archival research for a new project called "To Save the World's Wildlife: International Conservation in Postwar America." He is using the center's records on the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, institutions that provided financial support for wildlife conservation after World War II, to explore their general involvement in environmental activism and reform in the United States and around the globe.