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Dolores Greenberg
 

Ph.D. Cornell University
Academic Affiliation: Hunter College, Emerita
Office phone: 212-772-5480
E-Mail:greenberg412@yahoo.com

Field of Scholarship

Economic and Environmental History

Selected Publications

"La sosenibilita ambientale: interessi economico- politici e diritti dei cittadina ," in , eds., Rafaella Baritono and Elizabetta Verozzi, Oltre Il Secolo Americano? : Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo 1'11 settembre (Roma: Carocci, 2011): 201-218: (eng. trans., "The Sustainable Environment: Economic and Political Interests and Rights of Citizens," Beyond the American Century? : The United States Before and After September 9/11).

"Politica ambientale e ristrutturazione geopolitiche nell'eta di Reagan" in Marco Siol, ed., La parabola di Ronald Reagan: Da Hollywood all' ascesa dei neoconservatori (Verona: ombre corte, 2008):148-173, with documents in English.

"Contro La Dittura Della Technologia," La Republica, December 13, 2005.

"New York City: giustizia ambientale e politiche razziali," in Marco Sioli, ed., Metropoli e Natura Sulle Frontiere Americane : Dalle non-citta di Thoreau, dalle metropoli industrial alla citta ecologica (Milano:Franco Angeli, Storia Urbana ,2003):269-302.

"Historiography; Practitioners and Public" in Loretta Valtz Mannuci, ed., Quaderno, 6 (Milan Group in Early American History, 2002).

"Reconstructing Race and Protest: Environmental Justice in New York City," Environmental History, 5 (April, 2000): 223-250.

Co-editor with Harold Platt, "Environmental Justice in the Cities," Environmental History (April, 2000).

"Fueling the Illusion of Progress: Energy and Industrialization in the European Experience, in John Byrne and Daniel Rich, eds., Energy and Environment : The Policy Challenge, 6 (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 1992):89-113.

"Energy, Power, and Perceptions of Social Change in the Nineteenth Century," American Historical Review, 95 (June, 1990):693-714.

"Reassessing the Power Patterns of the Industrial Revolution: An Anglo American Comparison," American Historical Review, 87 (December, 1982):1237-1261.

Financiers and Railroads: 1869-1889. (University of Delaware, 1980).

Selected Papers, Professional Activities, and Awards:
Sawyer Seminar Series, Human Rights and State Sovergnity, Graduate Center, 2004-2006

Hunter College and the University Graduate Center, CUNY
Hunter College, Director, Interdisciplinary, Energy and Environmental Studies Program,1980-1994
Summer Institutes, lectures to High School Students, 1980s-1990s
Co-director, The Nature, Ecology & Society Network: Promoting Inter-disciplinary Collaborative Research Across Campuses,2001-4

Delegate, Fellowships, and Conference Participation:
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship,1984-1985, Energy and Modernization project
New School for Social Research, Fellow 1990-2003, East and Central Europe Program
United Nations, U.S. Delegate, World Solar Summit, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, July 1993
Environmental Delegation to China on the Three Georges Project, October, 1993
Associate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, 1993-2003
Delegate, President's White House Council on Environmental Quality, New York City, March 1997
Charles University, Environmental Conditions and The Need for Coalition Building, Prague, Summer, 1999
NGO Environmental Delegation to Cuba, Summer, 2000
University of Mexico "Beyond Borders," Comparative Urban Environmental Experience Conference, Mexico City, Summer, 2001
NSF, "Defining Universal Entitlements to a Healthy Environment," Conference on Health and Environment, Madison , Wisconsin, April 2002
University of Nebraska, Founder's Center Meeting on Global Perspectives, September, 2008

Awards:
Berkshire Prize: Best journal essay by a female historian , 1982 AHR article
Rockefeller Foundation: Residency, Bellagio Study Center, April 1997

 
 
 
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