The Department of History at the University of Arizona invites applications for
an advanced Assistant or Associate faculty position in U.S. environmental
history/history of environmental science, to begin August 2010.

This position is part of a new university-wide hiring initiative in
environmental science and policy. The University of Arizona, one of the most
fertile campuses in the country for the [...]

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Here is a copy of the gorgeous Envirotech poster that Ann Greene had made for the SHOT meeting in Pittsburgh.

Download pdf file (5.8 MB)

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Rebecca Pinkus sent the following message:
Canadian industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky’s newest project, “Oil” has recently opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, along with several related gallery shows in Amsterdam, New York, and Toronto. The Corcoran exhibit is on through mid-December, after which it will travel through 2011.
I was privileged to [...]

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The ICOHTEC-Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 3,000 Euro. ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of [...]

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The University Press of Mississippi will release Craig Colten’s new book, Perilous Place, Powerful Storms:  Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana in July 2009.
The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful [...]

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The Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies is a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education, the Rachel Carson Center’s goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in [...]

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We are looking for two persons with a doctoral degree or the equivalent who present research plans with a high degree of relevance for the appointments. The place of work for the appointments will be the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
The appointees’ research programmes must be clearly linked to the research area of [...]

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This is the annual call for submissions for SHOT’s IEEE Life Member’s Prize in Electrical History.
If you or someone you know has published a deserving article in 2008 dealing with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field — please consider nominating it for the IEEE Prize.
THE IEEE LIFE [...]

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Fulbright chair in Denmark 2010-2011
Distinguished Fulbright chair in US Environmental History / AMERICAN STUDIES
Grant Activity: The grantee would be asked to teach one 4 hour course at the MA level each term, plus one BA level course in the fall term. In the spring term, two hours would be given over to advising of students [...]

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Just a small, technical note: We are moving the envirotech email discussion list over from Stanford’s servers to our own today. All subscribers should have received an email asking for confirmation of this move. I also sent out a reminder to the old mailing list. If, despite all these emails, you are a subscriber and [...]

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