Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
With Lorraine Daston, eds.,
Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
With Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers, eds.,
Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Winner of the 2000 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for the History of Science Society.
The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Winner of the 1994 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools.
Select Recent Articles
“Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature.”
Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
“In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History.”Environmental History 10 (2005): 184-209. Winner of the 2006 Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award, American Society for Environmental History
“Pachyderm Personalities: The Media of Science, Politics and Conservation.” In Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Gregg Mitman and Lorraine Daston, pp. 175-195. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
“Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded-Age America.”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 600-635.