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David Stradling

Prof. Dr. David Stradling

Carson Fellow

David Stradling has taught urban and environmental history at the University of Cincinnati since 2000. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, after having earned a BA and MAT from Colgate University. His most recent book was coauthored with his brother, Richard Stradling. Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland narrates the environmental crisis together with the urban crisis, allowing for a fuller accounting of both. He has also published two books on New York: The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State and Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. His career began with a study of early efforts to control air pollution and resulted in Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. He serves as coeditor of the Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy series at Temple University Press.

RCC Research Project: Explorations beneath the Surface: Linking Fresh and Salt Water History


Selected Publications:

  • With Richard Stradling. Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
  • ed. The Environmental Moment, 1968–1972. University of Washington Press, 2012.
  • The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.
  • Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. University of Washington Press, 2007.
  • ed. Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts. University of Washington Press, 2004.
  • Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.