Event Title
The Poisoned Land: Hazardous Waste, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Environmental Equity in the U.S. South
Location
USM LAB 108 Gonzales Auditorium
Start Date
18-4-2022 12:00 AM
Description
Andrew Gutkowski is an Assistant Professor at USM in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, where he teaches courses in Environmental Justice, Social Advocacy, and Black Studies. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina (2020) with concentrations in Modern U.S., African American, and Environmental History. His current book project explores how post-war struggles over civil rights and industrial pollution in the U.S. South shaped the uneven distribution of environmental hazards – toxic waste facilities, Superfund sites, brownfields – that defines much of the region’s industrial landscape today. His research has recently been published in The Journal of American History.
The Poisoned Land: Hazardous Waste, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Environmental Equity in the U.S. South
USM LAB 108 Gonzales Auditorium
Andrew Gutkowski is an Assistant Professor at USM in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, where he teaches courses in Environmental Justice, Social Advocacy, and Black Studies. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina (2020) with concentrations in Modern U.S., African American, and Environmental History. His current book project explores how post-war struggles over civil rights and industrial pollution in the U.S. South shaped the uneven distribution of environmental hazards – toxic waste facilities, Superfund sites, brownfields – that defines much of the region’s industrial landscape today. His research has recently been published in The Journal of American History.