20th-century environmental, social, and political history; history of technology and medicine; and landscape studies.

Hist 334: Environmental History of North America

Hist 377: Cities in History

HSS 404: Capstone, Landscape, Environment, and Culture in America

Hist 548-001: Environmental History of North America

Hist 640: Environmental History of Urban America

Hist 510:547: History of Technology, Environment, and Health: Method and Theory

Nature's New Deal: Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007).

"A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps," Environmental History, 7, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 435-461.

"'Crazy Quilt Farming on Round Land': The Great Depression, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Politics of Landscape Change on the Great Plains During the New Deal Era," Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Autumn 2000): 319-339.

"'A Very Pleasant Place to Build a Towne On?': An Environmental History of Land Preservation in New York's Hudson Highlands," The Hudson Valley Regional Review 16, no. 2 (September 1999): 21-40.

Verville Research Fellowship: Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005.

University Excellence in Teaching Award: Federated Department of History at NJIT-Rutgers, Newark, 2002-2003.

Horace Samuel & Marion Galbraith Merrill Grant in Twentieth-Century American Political History: Bloomington, Indiana, 2001.

Harvard University Visiting Fellow: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998-1999.

Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship: Washington, D.C., 1998.