Gregg Mitman
William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History & Bioethics, and Science and Technology Studies
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Special interests and recent research:
My current project is entitled “America’s Rubber Empire: Science, Commerce, and Disease in the Making of Firestone Plantations Company.” It offers a historical account of the 1926 Harvard Medical Expedition to Liberia and the environmental and social consequences that followed in its wake.
My most recent book, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, brings together my interests in environmental history, history of science, and medical history. The book offers an ecological look at the history of allergic disease, investigating how American actions and attitudes toward the natural and built environment have impacted and been influenced by allergy illness.
Recent publications:
Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2007).
- “Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature.” Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
- “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History.” Environmental History 10 (2005): 184-209.
- Co-edited with Lorraine Daston. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Columbia University Press, 2004.
- Co-edited with Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers. Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in the Making of Modern Environments. OSIRIS, vol. 19, 2004.