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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Carl O. Sauer Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6180 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: ccolten@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Syracuse University,
1984.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental
Historical Geography
Urban Environments
Louisiana and the South
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Colten, Craig
E. 2005. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting
New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
Yodis,
Elaine, Craig Colten, and Douglas Johnson. 2003. Geography of Louisiana.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Colten, Craig E. 2002. "Basin Street Blues: Drainage and Environmental Equity
in New Orleans, 1890-1930." Journal of Historical Geography 28: 237-57.
Colten, Craig E. 2002. "Reintroducing Nature to the City: Wetlands in New Orleans." Environmental History 7: 226-46.
Colten,
Craig E., editor and contributor. 2000. Transforming New Orleans and
Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press.
Colten, Craig E. 1998. "Engineers' Topography: The Contours of Environmental Knowledge." Geographical Review 88:199-218.
Colten,
Craig E. 1997. "Environmental Justice on the American Bottom."
In Common Fields, Andrew Hurley, ed., pp.163-75. St. Louis: Missouri
Historical Society.
Colten, Craig E. and Peter N. Skinner. 1996. The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Wastes Before EPA. Austin: University of Texas Press.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2002-present.
Editorial Board, Environmental History.
1999-present.
Co-editor, Historical Geography.
1996-2002. Editorial Board, Geographical Review.
COURSES
TAUGHT
Geography of Louisiana
Historical Geography of the Environment
North America
Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
Seminar on Urban Environments
Seminar on Historical Environments of New Orleans
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
Phone: (225) 578-5942
Fax: (225) 578-4420
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