Teaching Environmental History through a Carceral Lens

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Practitioners of environmental history in the United States are devoting increasing attention to the ways in which the sprawling U.S. carceral state has been implicated in the nation’s built and unbuilt environments. Recent panels at the annual conferences of the American Society for Environmental History, Labor and Working Class History Association, and Organization of American Historians, among others, testify to the growing scholarly interest in carceral environmental history. This roundtable brings together a group of scholar-teachers who are using a variety of methods and tools to expand the scope of their environmental history courses to include the carceral institutions, regulations, and customs that have figured—and continue to figure—so prominently in much of the world that we inhabit. This roundtable is sponsored by the ASEH Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (CODIE).

Sub Unit

• ASEH Annual Conference

Moderator

• Clarence Jefferson Hall, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY

Presenters

• Clarence Jefferson Hall, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY

• Elizabeth Grennan Browning, University of Oklahoma

• Cassie Clark, Utah Tech University

• KangJae "Jerry" Lee, University of Utah

• Amanda Martin-Hardin, Columbia University