Matthew Klingle

Matthew Klingle is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Bowdoin College. He specializes in urban, environmental, and Western North American history. He is author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (2007), winner of the OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize. A former high school history teacher, he has received Bowdoin's Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for teaching excellence. He was also a fellow and former trustee of the Environmental Leadership Program. His current research focuses on the co-evolution of conservation and environmentalism with mass consumer culture. He is particularly interested in connecting scholarly research to contemporary environmental concerns as well as primary and secondary history education.

Lecture topics:

• Metronatural: The Nature of Inequality in the North American City
• Natural Desires: Toward an Environmental History of American Consumerism
• Greening Clio: The Role of History in Environmental Studies
• The Nature of History: Teaching Environmental History in Primary and Secondary Schools

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