Kate Brown is an Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013) and A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard University Press, 2004), which won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International European History. Brown is finishing a collection of essays called Being There: The Place as Archive, which explores place and the construction of space as a springboard for histories of communities and territories which have been silenced or destroyed.
Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (forthcoming, Beacon Press, 2014), A History of the Cuban Revolution (2011), Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008), They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration (2007; US Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940 (1996). She has also co-edited several anthologies including The People behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights/Bajo el manto del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón, Colombia (2007), The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2003) and Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (1998). She has been active in Latin America solidarity and immigrants' rights movements for several decades.
Joanna Dyl received her PhD in history from Princeton University. Her dissertation won the Rachel Carson Prize from the American Society for Environmental History, and she is currently revising that manuscript into a book tentatively titled Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake. Her interest in itinerant laborers resulted from a fortunate digression during her research into San Francisco in the early twentieth century, but most of her research has focused on urban environmental history and natural disasters. Her work also explores how race, class, and gender have affected environmental history.
Thomas Klubock is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Contested Communities: Class, Gender and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–1951 (Duke University Press, 1998) and La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Duke University Press, 2014).
Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Sanjiv Pandita is Executive Director of the Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC). He has been on the front lines of labor activism in Asia for more than a decade. Having graduated in Microbiology from University of Pune in India, he went on to earn his master's degree in Environmental Sciences from the same university. His expertise in Occupational Health and Safety has won international awards, including from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, and recognition as one of the fifty most influential Environmental, Health and Safety leaders by EHS Today in 2008. Pandita's writings on grassroots movements and workers’ health issues have been published widely. Pandita also authored two chapters, on China and India, in the book, Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Temple University Press, 2006).
Gunther Peck, an Associate Professor of History, teaches immigration, labor, and environmental history in both the History Department and the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he holds a joint appointment. His first book, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), won the Taft Prize in North American labor history. He is currently finishing a book on the history of whiteness and human trafficking entitled Trafficking in Race: ‘White Slavery’ and the Origins of Humanitarian Sensibility in the British Empire, 1660–1807.
Thomas D. Rogers is Associate Professor of History at Emory University. He specializes in modern Latin American history, particularly Brazil, labor and environmental history, and Afro-Latin American history. His book The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil appeared in 2010. That same year, he served as a Fulbright Foreign Scholar at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He is currently at work on an environmental and social history of Brazil's experiences with sugarcane ethanol production, emphasizing the massive, state-directed National Alcohol Program of the 1970s.
Douglas Sackman is the James Dolliver NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. He is the editor of A Companion to American Environmental History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and the author of Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (2010) and Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (2005), winner of the 2006 Martin Ridge Award. He is currently working on a new book entitled American Panorama: Rediscovering the History of the American West.
Jenny Leigh Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in History and Science, Technology and Society from MIT. Her book, Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963, is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2014. She has also written about food and food processing in the Soviet Union and the environmental legacy of agricultural collectivization. Her current work focuses on the political, biological and environmental consequences of famines in the Soviet Union and other parts of the developing world during the Twentieth Century.
John Soluri is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs an undergraduate program in Global Studies. His research and teaching explore the relationship between social and environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on the commodification of life forms. He is currently researching and writing a book centered on human-animal relationships in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
Jacquelyn Southern is Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches in the Graduate Program in American Studies. She is also Visiting Posen Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches Jewish labor and secularism in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. A geographer, her research interests concern environmental justice, the history and practice of industrial unionism, and racialized landscapes. She has worked in the labor and environmental movements, and is former managing editor of Rethinking Marxism.
Steven Stoll is Associate Professor at Fordham University, where he teaches environmental history and the history of capitalism. His books include Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Hill and Wang, 2002) and The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth (Hill and Wang, 2008). He is writing a history of subsistence and capitalism in the Appalachia.
Steve Striffler is the Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans. His first book, In the Shadows of State and Capital (Duke University Press, 2002), explored how peasant-worker struggle transformed Ecuador's banana industry. His second book, Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food (Yale University Press, 2005), looked at how industrialization transformed the chicken into a commodity that is unhealthy for workers, farmers, consumers, and the environment. He is currently working on issues related to Colombia, coal mining, and international solidarity.
