MIGUEL AGUILAR-ROBLEDO is Professor of Geography and Dean at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He also golds appointments in the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Environmental Science, Environment and Resource Management, as well as the Latin American Graduate Program on Territory, Society and Culture. His research focuses on regional and applied historical geography and environmental history.
THOMAS G. ANDREWS is Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of two books—Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Harvard University Press, 2008) and Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies (Harvard University Press, 2015)—and is working on a third, tentatively entitled “An Animals’ History of the United States.”
ANTONIO AVALOS-LOZANO is Professor of Environmental Science at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. His research focuses on mineral production and deforestation in New Spain/Mexico and climate history.
ROBERT N. CHESTER III is an adjunct professor in Sacramento, California. He has published on the topic of food in the journal Environmental History and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Comstock Creations: The Nature of America’s Largest Silver Strike.”
STEVEN M. HOFFMAN was Professor of Political Science at St. Thomas University. Sadly, Steven passed away in 2015, while this book was still in production. During his impressive career, he published many books and articles on pressing political and environmental topics, including the coedited volume, with Thibault Martin, Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec (University of Manitoba Press, 2008).
ANDREW C. ISENBERG is Professor of History at Temple University. He specializes in environmental history and the history of the North American borderlands. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Mining California: An Ecological History (Hill and Wang, 2005), and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (Hill and Wang, 2013), which was a finalist for the Weber-Clements Prize in Southwestern History. He is the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space (University of Rochester Press, 2006) and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2014).
ARN KEELING is Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. His research focuses on the historical geography of mineral development, pollution, and remediation in the Canadian North. He is the coeditor, with John Sandlos, of Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (University of Calgary Press, 2015).
NANCY LANGSTON is Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. She is author of four books, including Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES (Yale University Press, 2010) and Sustaining Lake Superior (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
TIMOTHY JAMES LECAIN is Associate Professor of History at Montana State University. His first book, Mass Destruction: The Men and Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009), won the Best Book Award from the American Society for Environmental History. His latest book, The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), develops a neomaterialist theory and method of history through a comparative environmental history of Japanese and American copper mining.
JEFFREY T. MANUEL is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is the author of Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915–2000 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). In addition to his research on the history of extractive industries, he is also active in public and oral history projects.
J. R. MCNEILL is Professor of History and University Professor at Georgetown University. His most recent books are The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (Harvard University Press, 2016), coauthored with Peter Engelke, and Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association.
ROBYNNE MELLOR is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Georgetown University. Her dissertation, which she is currently writing, draws on approaches from environmental history, diplomatic history, and international comparative history to examine uranium mining and milling in Canada, the United States, and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1985. Her research has been supported by awards from the Social Science Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the American Society of Environmental History.
ERIC MOGREN is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, where he is also a Faculty Associate in the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy. He is the author of Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2002) and Native Soil: A History of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005).
JOHN SANDLOS is Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where he has worked on several projects focusing on the historical and contemporary impacts of abandoned mines in northern Canada. He is the coeditor, with Arn Keeling, of Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory (University of Calgary Press, 2015). His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and ArcticNet. The chapter in this volume was also generously supported by a writing fellowship from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany.
DAVIKEN STUDNICKI-GIZBERT is Associate Professor of History at McGill University, Canada, where he teaches global, Latin American, and environmental history. His research focuses on the long-term political ecology of resource extraction in North America, public interest research on Canadian mining in Latin America, and the use of historical research in advancing indigenous self-determination in western Panama.
JESSICA VAN HORSSEN is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in England. She is the author of A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Health, Contamination, and Resilience in a Resource Community (University of British Columbia Press, 2016).
GEORGE VRTIS is Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Carleton College. His research currently focuses on precious-metals mining in Colorado, the environmental relationships that link the Twin Cities with the rest of Minnesota, and the politics of wilderness at Grand Canyon National Park. He is the coeditor, with Christopher W. Wells, of Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming).