Paul Sutter
- Professor
- HISTORY
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Research Interests
U.S. and global environmental history; disease and the environment; history of the environmental sciences
Biography
Professor Sutter earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is the author of (2002) and (2015), he is the co-author of (with Leon Neel and Albert Way, 2010), and the co-editor of Environmental History and the American South: A Reader (with Christopher Manganiello, 2009) and Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast (with Paul Pressly, 2018). His current book project Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914, is an environmental and public health history of the construction of the Panama Canal. Dr. Sutter has also written a number of influential essays on environmental historiography, including a state-of-the-field essay in the Journal of American History (June 2013), and he is the Series Editor for , published by the University of Washington Press. He has received major fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.