Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Jennifer Clapp is a professor and Centre for International Governance Innovation chair in global environmental governance in the Department of Environment and Resources Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is the coeditor of Global Environmental Politics as well as serving on the editorial boards of Global Governance and Alternatives Journal. Clapp is the also the coeditor of numerous anthologies on environmental issues, including Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (with Doris Fuchs, 2009) and Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development (with Peter Utting, 2008), and the author of Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (2012), Food (2012), Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (cowritten with Peter Dauvergne, 2005, 2011) and Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (2001). Marisol Cortez is active in environmental justice movements, as both a scholar and an organizer. As a research assistant and preparing reports for the Environmental Justice Project out of the John Muir Center of the Environment at the University of California at Davis, she helped develop an inventory of environmental justice research needs in California’s Central Valley, and she has organized around water, climate, and protection of indigenous sacred spaces in San Antonio, Texas, and Lawrence, Kansas. She is currently the American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at the University of Kansas, where she writes and teaches in the American Studies department about the intersections of waste, embodiment, culture, nature, and power. Stephanie Foote is an associate professor of English as well as gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship from the Winterthur Library and an Andrew Mellon Fellowship, she is the author of the book Regional Fictions (2001) and is completing a book titled Signs Taken for Blunders on class mobility in late nineteenth-century US culture. Foote is also currently writing a book on the environmental impact of the book trade. Scott Frickel is an associate professor of sociology at Washington State University . His central research interest lies in the study of knowledge, particularly as it relates to environmental health, risk, and justice. Frickel is the author of Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of 262 About the Contributors Genetic Toxicology (2004), which won the American Sociology Association’s Robert K. Merton Book Award, and with Kelly Moore is the coeditor of The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power (2006). William Gleason is professor of English at Princeton University, where he is also Acting Director of the Program in American Studies and Affiliated Faculty with the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Center for African American Studies. Author of The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840–1940 (1999) and Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature (2011), Gleason is also coeditor of the forthcoming volume, Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture. Elizabeth Mazzolini is a visiting assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech University. She teaches courses on the intersections between science, nature, and culture, and has published reviews and essays in Battleground: Science and Technology, Communication Review, Theory and Event, and Cultural Critique. Mazzolini is completing a book about the discourse and technology surrounding Mount Everest, titled Human Nature: Mount Everest and Material Ideology. Richard S. Newman is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (2008) and The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002), the latter of which was a finalist for the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians. Along with Daniel Payne, he coedited The Palgrave Environmental Reader (2005), and is currently working a book-length project titled “These 16 Acres”: Love Canal and the American Dream: An Environmental History of the Love Canal Disaster. Phaedra C. Pezzullo is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, and an adjunct faculty member of the Department of American Studies and Program in Cultural Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S. She is the author of Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice (2007), which won four book awards, including the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication. Pezzullo also coedited Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (2007) and edited Cultural Studies and...